"Do you think I believe in what I believe simply because I'm told by other people? No human has ever influenced what I believe. God exists.. I know this, but God is too wise to allow me to present evidence for it."
Your pastors have taught you well. The Dark Side is strong with you.
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And only Sith deal in absolutes. I'm self-taught, when it comes to computers. Does that mean I can therefore 'heal' people and 'cast out demons', pray tell...?
(emphasis added):
'Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.'
-Han Solo (Harrison Ford), "Star Wars ep. IV"
@ Dr.Shrinker
"So you can't give a convincing testimony. Your god picked a loser to handle its PR for it."
As a comedian once said (emphasis added): 'If God is the most powerful being in the universe, why does he need a bunch of bozos to do his P.R.?'
Surely by actually appearing to the entire world at once, wouldn't that strengthen religious belief as a whole? But then as for religious clergy/preachers/pastors, however, there's the rub indeed. 'Pharisees, and all that jazz...!