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Look KFC, I guess faith has completely blinded you. You have made several 'facts' that rely on blind faith. I can do that too, Here are some 'facts' for you, basically they also come down to blind faith, but not bizarre blind faith. God isn't real, he may be your imaginary friend, but he isn't real, it is that simple. There are many versions of this imaginary god. Some are versions of the same god, such as the Jews god, Islamic god, Chirstian god, and Morman god, a

Reply to A Critic's Mind Changed in History JoeUser Forums

Sorry, got my ouble negatives wrong on that last part. Put it does point out one th8ing, either god is not so good at communicating (uses double negatives), or at some point, someone copied a scripture wrong (added the double negative, and screwed it up)

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[B]Everything in the Bible is true when it is understood and interpreted in its proper context. It's true becasue it's the inspired Word of God and God can neither deceive or be deceived.[/B] Couple things wrong with above statement. 1. Man an be decieved. 2. Bible changes depending on what version of god you believe in. 3. Comes down to blind faith. [B]How ought we to live?[/B] Society determins that, god had nothing to do with the following: slavery, wo

Reply to A Critic's Mind Changed in History JoeUser Forums

[quote]If several of us witness a traffic light turning from green to red and write down what we saw, our account would be historically accurate.[/quote] One very important thing you completly missed. I light turning from green to red isn't History, it is just an event. Peoples interperttion of how and event effects us is a better description of what History is, and more importantly, it is what gets written down in history books. The exact datews of when a president

Reply to Mad Men Of Africa in History JoeUser Forums

I call it the US Civil War, because that it what it is most commomnly refered to, never heard of the US Civil Revolt Same for Soviet Revolution. P.S. It is best not to make things up, history is unstable as it is.

Reply to Mad Men Of Africa in History JoeUser Forums

Looks like standard humanity to me. Hitler vs Jews Spanish vs central american population US vs Indians Soviet revolution US Civil War All civil wars for that matter. etc....

Reply to Question For Those Who Know How To Properly Handle A US Flag in History JoeUser Forums

Respecting a flag and properly handeling a flag are not even close to being the same. You could teach these kids how to handle the flag, but what good will that do?

Reply to A Critic's Mind Changed in History JoeUser Forums

I Thought that was covered when I said light, gravity, time, etc...

Reply to A Critic's Mind Changed in History JoeUser Forums

KFC, Science supports that god created animals in one instance???? Actually recently it is the other way around, some religious leaders now saying that god crearted evolution, and that evolution is responsible for life. ince god doesn't exist, that is horse pucky. Here is one guy who is preaching it, I guess he wrote a popular book about it recently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dowd Maybe god created the big bang Maybe god created light, gravity, tim

Reply to A Critic's Mind Changed in History JoeUser Forums

KFC, you say History is History, and Opinion is Opinion. History books are writen by writers with opinions. That writer is sharing his/her opinion of an event, then it gets modified by other writers opinions when they write their History Book. Just as history changes, so do religions, I would agree that parts of religion are based on historical events. Most of the modern versions of religion are less then 1000 years old. Even the catholic church is less then 1500, wh

Reply to A Critic's Mind Changed in History JoeUser Forums

KFC, are you asking us if Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Horce, got things wrong? Well of course they did. And if they were at all reasonable people, and knew what we know now, they themselves would admit to being wrong. You say they have never been questioned? I would guess that almost all of their theories have been proven wrong, or drasticaly modified. Did some of them make up fictional stories, knowing that they were completely made up (sometimes refered to as fiction)?<

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Most of ancient history is heresy, and what was written down was from the point of view of the author, for instance, ask peoples views on Bill Clinton, and you get two extremes, which one is correct? Probably neither. As far as the bible matching history...since most of the world doesnt follow the christian version of god, you might find one or two people who don't agree with you. And Again, your saying that based on history, and history are the same,

Reply to A Critic's Mind Changed in History JoeUser Forums

Proves that Based on history and History are not the same. but besides that, I seriously doubt your stories, your two accounts of history could be true, but are more likely to be from the 'National Enquirer' of the day. And we all know that if it is writen in the National Eqnuirer, it must be true.

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Before this discussion turned into a pissing contest, KFC was originally arguing that the bible is true because history says so Above is very very over simplified, but much less wordy and to the point. KFC let me know if I am wrong. Please note I am not trying to offend anyone, sorry if I did. Just trying to get the intent across. My argument against that was the history is very unstable, so basing something on history (and not evidence) is a very slippery slope. I

Reply to A Critic's Mind Changed in History JoeUser Forums

I am not trying to offend you in any way, but you have to admit the following 2 facts: I believe the bible is based on history, but that doesn't necassarily mean that everything in the bible is true. History is a very unstable thing, it is the point of view of who ever wrote it down, even then it can drastically change (Columbus for example). You don't hve to go back in time very far to see examples of this, ask people what happened on 9/11, and you will get everything from

Reply to JFK - Warrior For Peace in History JoeUser Forums

I am not trying to put either of these presidents down, instead I am asking a serious question about them. JFK was a popular president, but what exactly did he do? Ronald Regan was a popular president, lots of things happened because of decisions he made, but did he plan the outcomes?

Reply to History's Questions in Prehistoric JoeUser Forums

Good questions, this is my real attempt at trying to answer your questions. Question 1 How did Egypt evolve into the expensive pharaonic system several thousand years ago? [B]Since history is good at repeating, I would guess some combo of Religion/Politics/Resources[/B] Question 2 Was there a series of civilisations before the current series of civilisations? [B]Of course, why wouldnt there have been? [/B] Question 3 What