“Atheism is a psychosis”
Psychiatrist citation for a diagnosis, please?
“The presence of God is surprisingly easy to ‘sense’ and thus prove.”
‘Sense’ is very subjective. ‘Prove’ is objective. You can’t objectively prove to me that you’re ticklish, much less that you sense a divine being AND can distinguish this feeling from Thor or Satan or the IPU.
“ I have never properly understood why atheists denied His presence until I had an ‘aha’ moment yesterday: Atheists suffer from psychosis in much the same way that a serial killer does.”
Hmm. But if a serial killer were to ask, ‘can you prove to me that killing is illegal,’ there is evidence available. If i ask for objective evidence of this ‘god’ you talk about, what do you offer? Personal feelings? Your Jedi sense?
“The serial killer feels no guilt for his actions. There is no point asking a serial killer why he has committed his foul deeds, because when Satan enters one’s soul the possessed person becomes unable to grasp what the rest of us take for granted.”
Yes, there is something wrong with serial killers and their lack of empathy. I don’t believe they’re ‘possessed by Satan,’ that’s your superstition.
“He can’t fathom why normal people feel compassion. There is a missing link in his thought process and he needs to be jailed until he comes right with God.”
Feel free to prove to the parole board that a serial killer has or is becoming right with a god.
“Indeed, asking an atheist to define our moral code is like asking Jack the Ripper to run Life-Line.”
YOUR moral code is a list of prohibitions. Mine is a general effort to limit unnecessary harm to other people.
“But . . . back to that ‘sixth-sense’ which we Christians have of God. I feel it is acceptable to state that there is a sense of what is True in this world, and that it cannot be put into words.”
Say it all you want. Why should i believe YOU have this sense, but Muslims do not? Or Mormons? Or Catholics?
“The French call it a ‘je ne sais quoi’ -- a certain something!”
Um, no. They say, “i cannot say what.”
“Hence the silly assumption that man (scientists and atheists) can try and find Jesus under a microscope.”
Who the fuck makes that assumption?
Science is purely naturalistic. Nothing supernatural shows up under a microscope. Science is neutral on the existence of magic beings like Leprechauns, Jesus, and Santa Claus.
Maybe you’re the one with a psychosis?
“It doesn’t work like that.”
We know.
“Knowing Jesus is a profound ‘feeling’ that cannot be denied and in fact drives everything a True Christian does.”
Sure, sure. That’s why every religion, the members do the very same thing at all times. They get their motivations by JEsus.
Except, people on both sides of the Slavery question thoughtthey were guided by God and doing the Lord’s work. Why would i think ANY of them have a connection to an external source rather than just internal desires?
“Christians automatically have that ‘je ne sais quoi’ and others can sense it in them.”
Just a little full of yourself, aren’t you?
“The way a person who walks with Christ carries his or herself will even appear different. There is a spring in their step that only a fellow believer will understand.”
See, I grew up in the faith, btu I had questions. No one around me could answer them, mostly they got made that I dared to ask. I left the church to find the one with the real grasp on god. I found that they were all the same. Same hubris, same lack of critical thoughts, same self-serving arguments.
“I mention all this because to us as Christians, atheists appear as prisoners in a glass box, screeching to get out”
No, not at all. You guys will break bones to stay in that box. You’re afraid that if you even look outside you’ll lose your ticket to Heaven.
“ yet denying what they see through that glass. That is the irony! All they have to do is smash the glass and step into the light.”
Uh huh. As I said, same self-serving arguments.
“If there are any seekers out there who are sick of the cobbled-together lies peddled by ‘science’ then I suggest that you start by asking God for help. Put some heart into it! You have to make the first move.”
I did.
I got bupkes.
And I got a lot of hate on from the people washed in the blood of the lamb.