"In the meantime, Christians are the true realists, the rationalists, and so they are the staunch, rugged individualists in the world, but not of it, open to every new adventure, free of the fanatical, mumbo-jumbo superstitions of a fallen humanity, beholden to no one and to no thing as sterile and miserly as the commonplace things of this passing world. Instead, they hang on every precious word and thunderous truth of a risen Savior full of life and wonders.""Family", "tribe", "society", "nation" or "race" are all examples of something greater than self.
No gods required.
The Noise of this World and the Flatulence of their Own Conceits
Ah! See. There's the good ol' collectivist, herd mentality so very typical of so many atheists. The atheist thinks of himself as the free thinker, the originalist, the above-it-all, high-flying rationalist. But, of course, he is none of these things. His thinking is pedestrian, even boorish, for it is irrational and unimaginative, a dead end, and so it keeps him earthbound, going around and around the mulberry tree. His ideology is an incoherent collection of slogans, his thoughts, banalities bouncing off the walls of a dark and tiny room. This is why most atheists are statists, conformists, dull, drab shades of gray.
In the meantime, Christians are the true realists, the rationalists, and so they are the staunch, rugged individualists in the world, but not of it, open to every new adventure, free of the fanatical, mumbo-jumbo superstitions of a fallen humanity, beholden to no one and to no thing as sterile and miserly as the commonplace things of this passing world. Instead, they hang on every precious word and thunderous truth of a risen Savior full of life and wonders.
The atheist shouts the mundane axiom "2 + 2 = 4!" as if he had struck gold . . . when the greatest axiom of them all, the voice of God Himself, imprinted on his mind, declares, "I AM!"
But all relativists are as deaf as posts, hearing nothing, believing in nothing but the noise of this world and the flatulence of their own conceits.
GT: Informal fallacy!
Emily: Can't we all just get along?
Betty Boop Inevitable: I believe in God . . . but not really.
Hollie: $%^&@#*+!
mamooth: $%^&@#*+!
Tom Sweetnam: $%^&@#*+!
Boss: We can believe truth, but never know truth, except I know things that no one else knows . . . but not really.
orogenicmanicus; Abiogenesis! Millions of kinds! Fairies wear boots. You gotta believe me! Global warming!
seallybobo: Huh?
Amrchaos: Solipsism! The objective facts of human cognition regarding the problems of origin and existence are empirical in nature . . . but not really.
BreezeWood: Pantheistic mumbo jumbo.
QW: Science has primacy over consciousness!
Foxfyre: I know all about the classical proofs for God's existence, studied them for years . . . but not really. My tiny, pipsqueak of a god!
PratchettFan: No evidence! Informational vacuum!
asaratis: No evidence! No proof!
Brucethenonthinker: Mountains out of no hills at all!
"I AM!" says God Almighty.
Did you hear that?
Not me, I was too busy . . . outsmarting myself to hear anything worth knowing or believing.
But, of course, none of you can overthrow or escape the objective facts of human cognition regarding the problems of existence and orgin. You all run and hide and pretend. The Seven Things™ that are objectively true for all regarding the problems of existence and origin due to the organic laws of human thought (the law of identity, the law of contradiction and the law of the excluded middle): http://www.usmessageboard.com/posts/10122836/.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse (Romans 1: 18 - 20).
He also appears in a number of "People of Walmart"' YouTube videos.
He's the "Marlboro Man" of Jehovah's Witnesses.