The EEG is measuring the emotion, not where it comes from or how you get it. You are saying God influences peoples lives, the machine reads it, so it must be God. That's retarded, and I know you can see why. Like I said, the source of the emotion isn't what is being measured, it's the emotion itself. Whether or not God plays a roll is unknown. Burden of proof, again, lies with you to demonstrate it does. Till then, it doesn't.
Which is, once again, exactly what I said. The EEG results tell us nothing in this argument and that's the point I made by first mentioning it. I'm not sure why we're still on this one.
Dude, atheists don't lobby congress to get laws based on their own skewed perverted vision of morality passed. They don't make up 85% of the vote.
And that's exactly what believers do, pick out piltdown man and scream "Evolution is FALSE!! That proves it!!" so give me a break with that one..
Are you seriously trying to tell me that atheists don't have an agenda, and that they never use the laws to pursue it?
By "Just as bad", I mean the fact tthat both the atheist and the Christians seem to think that Christianity is the only faith in existence. Every argument you'vgiven me is something trying to debunk Christianity, which has nothing at all to do with the argument. This is akin to me claiming that all science is false and basing my arguments on debunking phrenology or alchemy.
You tell me what you consider to be the "core beliefs" of Christianity.
I've already stated this twice in the thread.... The core of any genuine spiritual practice lies in a connection with a pure and loving divine energy. Whether you consider this a collective consciousness, a god, a higher self, nirvana, heaven, or enlightenment isn't that important. Most genuine spiritual practices will also include some general guidlines for living your life such as being kind to others and basic moral and societal values.
You seem to be taking some kind of "on the fence" sort of position. If Christianity isn't right, then it's wrong.
It can't be both, so which is it?
Sure, from a fundamentalist staindpoint, your argument makes sense. Once again, you're painting the world black and white, and once again, just as bad as fundamentalist christianity. Christianity has some good messages behind it, but a lot of it comes from a really sideways direction because it has been so affected by politics and agendas over the years. There are some sects of christianity, such as evangelism, that don't fous on anything spiritual at all but rather focus on making other people know that they are going to burn in hell. This is wrong. Some sects focus on morality and being kind to others, and tell you to work on yourself in a spiritual aspect. There is nothing wrong with that because it's a good message.
Whether it's athiest, christian, or muslim, fundamentalism is a bad thing.
