If things had worked out a little differently, religious leaders could have been today defending sun worship against atheists.
J.B.S.Haldane wrote a nice , short article about that Here
A short extract - 'If the Sun's atmosphere is gaseous, His core is eminently solid and material. And the same is true of Light. The hideous hypothesis of Young and Fresnel reduced the Holy Light Itself to vibrations in an hypothetical ether. No more than the particle theory of Newton could it be reconciled with the truths of religion. After being bandied about for a century by scientific dogmatists the wave theory is now being withdrawn with as little noise as possible.
Light has properties like those of waves, others like those of particles; and matter also has properties of both kinds. By faith, we have accepted the doctrine that the Sun, Mithras, and the Holy Light are one. In every century there have been scoffers who asked how this was possible. In the nineteenth century, with the progress of astronomy and physics, the number of the scoffers increased. 'The Sun,' they said, ' consists of atoms, His Light of vibrations - how can they be one?' Today, if still only incompletely, we see how.'
It would actually be harder to refute sun worship, being that unlike the god of the Abrahamic religions, the sun is actually involved in people's lives!
As sick as I am of Xtians boasting about a Jewish savior who loves nothing more than to allow freewill so he can damn everyone to Hell, I might prefer it if that religion had triumphed instead (assuming I had to pick one!) But then, I probably wouldn't know the difference and hate whichever one made it.
Street apologist, don't come here to parade your ignorance. If you want to debate non-calvinists, then you are free to do so. That's an in-house argument. We are not theists, okay? You Christians can't even agree on what you should believe. First go settle your own disputes and then get back to us with an agreed upon Christian answer that we atheists can comment on. Until you do this, don't ask us to tell you what you should believe.
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If things had worked out a little differently, religious leaders could have been today defending sun worship against atheists.
J.B.S.Haldane wrote a nice , short article about that Here
A short extract - 'If the Sun's atmosphere is gaseous, His core is eminently solid and material. And the same is true of Light. The hideous hypothesis of Young and Fresnel reduced the Holy Light Itself to vibrations in an hypothetical ether. No more than the particle theory of Newton could it be reconciled with the truths of religion. After being bandied about for a century by scientific dogmatists the wave theory is now being withdrawn with as little noise as possible.
Light has properties like those of waves, others like those of particles; and matter also has properties of both kinds. By faith, we have accepted the doctrine that the Sun, Mithras, and the Holy Light are one. In every century there have been scoffers who asked how this was possible. In the nineteenth century, with the progress of astronomy and physics, the number of the scoffers increased. 'The Sun,' they said, ' consists of atoms, His Light of vibrations - how can they be one?' Today, if still only incompletely, we see how.'
The piece is very good.
It would actually be harder to refute sun worship, being that unlike the god of the Abrahamic religions, the sun is actually involved in people's lives!
As sick as I am of Xtians boasting about a Jewish savior who loves nothing more than to allow freewill so he can damn everyone to Hell, I might prefer it if that religion had triumphed instead (assuming I had to pick one!) But then, I probably wouldn't know the difference and hate whichever one made it.
(JH)
Joe,
Where do you [or these Christians] you refer to come up with freewill? I would like to see the verses that argue for freewill.
~SA
Street apologist, don't come here to parade your ignorance. If you want to debate non-calvinists, then you are free to do so. That's an in-house argument. We are not theists, okay? You Christians can't even agree on what you should believe. First go settle your own disputes and then get back to us with an agreed upon Christian answer that we atheists can comment on. Until you do this, don't ask us to tell you what you should believe.
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