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• Religious Leaders Respond to Hawking’s ‘No Need for God’

  September 7, 2010 at 7:22pm

  In reply to Okpulot Taha.

  You prove my points admirably well, Okpulot Taha, and each one in turn. By the way, I’m not white.

• Religious Leaders Respond to Hawking’s ‘No Need for God’

  September 6, 2010 at 12:29pm

  In reply to Okpulot Taha.

  OKPULOT TAHA: Your arrogance, among others on here, is astounding. You whine about a “white boy” trying to teach you about your religion, yet you impose your interpretations about Christianity on them. You complain about being offended then delight in offending others with your words. I’m afraid your credibility has been damaged beyond repair with such arrogance and hypocrisy. What valid arguments you may have had have been rendered obsolete. While I appreciate the intent to get people to think for themselves, your attempts to woo folks with racist insults had fallen well short. Fighting what you call bigotry with bigotry is the worst kind of defense. It’s sad really. Likely, noone on here has any problem with a “red skinned girl”, yet you continually show your contempt for any one not. Whatever horrible things anyone’s culture has done to the Choctaw people, has not been done by anyone here, so treat people with the respect they deserve. You rip the action of faith and call it irrational, yet you require us to rationally have faith that your language has been wrongly interpreted, a language which yourself procalims to be unwritten and therefore virtually impossible to prove or disprove.
  You have done well to account for yourself in the acedemic arena, but you have much much more to learn about people and yourself. None of us have “arrived” at perfection, which you unabashedly parade yourself to have done on this forum. It is likely that we all fall disgustingly short of what is true, but the pursuit will never fail us, if we do it with humility. Good luck to you

• Religious Leaders Respond to Hawking’s ‘No Need for God’

  September 6, 2010 at 11:49am

  In reply to alamo.

  To Live free or die:
  Your simple statement in regards to the universe that it will never be proven that God created the universe because it would take away the need for faith lacks any depth of spiritual understanding. Salvation, according to our Christian bible, does not require faith that God created the universe, only faith that God sent Jesus, His son, to the earth for the sole purpose of purchasing our souls from the enemy in exchange for the life of Jesus himself, and then, faith that God raised him from the dead. In the event that someone were to prove that God created the universe, nothing about salvation would change. Therefore, it is entirely possible that someone could prove it. Besides, it would seem like a very positive thing that someone could prove that God created the universe, because it would then move people toward a faith in the saving power of God; more people would believe in the existence of God, which would mean more people would have to opportunity to place their faith in God’s control over their lives. Also, proof isn’t always followed by belief, and to some, a proven theory still requires a modicum of faith.
  Off-handed remarks that completely over-simplify the wonderful complexity of God do not do justice to Him, and further damage the already poor view of Christian reasoning by the scientific community.