Mormons and Unreasonable Faith

http://thecord.ca/articles/50261

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[wimsweden]

I commented. I hope I was "logically devastating". :P

[ShwaNerd]

@wimsweden Oh indeed, that was very good ;)

[mathmexican4234]

I hate when they say god values freedom over everything else and this is good. So many problems. First, its not free if he creates a system where he rewards one choice and punishes another. That is coercion, not freedom. If one wants to say you are free to not give the robber your money when he threatens to kill you, I suppose you can, but I will call it immoral.

Also, it's immoral for him to value freedom over preventing harm. You wouldnt just allow your baby to choose to eat a battery.

[jay666KJ]

So you will only see "proof" when your already bias enough to accept the "proof" but from a objective standpoint....ugh....why is it everything I listen to theist argument I keep hearing the lyric "Youre such an inspiration For the ways that I will Never, ever choose to be." from Perfect circle's Judith. I mean....they're arguments are the same as every other sect of christianity and probably almost all religions...its just absurd!

[troutsleuthCA]

Hi I am a mormon, a mormon who does not believe in the doctrine but a mormon who likes being a mormon. I have come to conclude that "I hope" that god exists and that there is some underlying meaning to this journey we call life. I also find it comical that we pretend to know what Gods greatest desire for us is....Oh well. I like mormon doctrine the best...becoming like a God would be cool...make universises stuff like that...in the end who knows...I dont

[4jonah]

Saying God will only reveal himself after you've decided he exists isn't only intellectually dishonest, but it's also logically inconsistent. It's like saying "I will only believe Citizen Kane is an actual movie until I finished watching it". It's just stupid.

[wakeangel2001]

on the freedom to choose thing. Since when do you ever feel like you've had a freedom taken away when you learn about something? Take the video game you've been looking forward to. You're "free" to believe it's the best thing ever programmed, but if you actually PLAYED it you MIGHT find out that it isn't. It would therefore be better if you never played it at all because you could go on believing it was the best thing ever.

[danielsondanielson]

@SchwaNerd Good luck in your last assignment of the semester.

[llegalPlayer]

@ShwaNerd if the LDS MORmON church is true,then there RACIST DOCTRINES would be TRUE.

MORmON God Curses the rebellious with Black skin

"...wherefore,as they were WHITE and exceedingly fair and delightsome,that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a SKIN of BLACKNESS to come upon them (2 Nephi 5:21)."

MORmON GOD turns the Skin back WHITE because they REPENTED

"And their curse was taken from them, and their skin became WHITE like unto the Nephites" (3 Nephi 2:15).

[MinervaInTheBrain]

The Mormons are right, the best way to have an imaginary friend, is to give that imaginary friend a lot of powers of stealth and pretend the thing is real.

[fullmetalflame14]

Why were comments on the article disabled?

[mnewf2002]

wow....it;s a shwanerd. hows school going for you?

[zarkoff45]

The belief test is the only test that stupid people can beat smart people at.

Matthew 11:25: ... Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children."

[MardasMan]

The upbringing provides the presupposition missionaries have, the "fruits of faith", the wall against reality, and this presupposition will be defended at big cost. This is why in religions there is so few mobility in beliefs... Indoctrination.