.. You did mean Karl Marx, right?
If you did, good joke. If not.. heh.

@Ando:
That is a good general rule, indeed. But that brings us to the old problem that people will believe anything until they find out it’s in the Bible.
Most of the things in there, especially in the Old Testament are not simply one of the three categories but a part of each. If you take the story of Noah: Of course we know, that mankind and all the animals did not descend from the passengers of the Ark. We cannot prove, if there has ever been something like the Ark (but there has most probably not been one). But we can be pretty sure that there has been a remarkable flood disaster that this myth is evolved from. And the place where the Ark is said to have landed did exist, for that we have archaeological proof. Although all those people climbing up Mt. Ararat to find the remains don’t seem to know much about the hebraic language, which contains no vocals and therefor the word ‘rrt’ could mean Mt. Ararat but it could also mean the nation of Uratru which was a pretty large nation in today’s eastern Turkey and northern Iraq and Iran.

That’s actually one thing my Professors use to joke about: We have about 5 times as much requests for digging permissions for Mt. Ararat as we have for the whole of Urartu.

Well, I hope you get my point out of all this rigmarole.

@ Tiki
Do you believe that the milk goes in first or that the tea goes in first? *readies his kneecapping mallet*

And I’m not alone in my teapot beliefs. The only thing that I know is that there is 100% definitely not someone in the sky that pats my back when I do good, and punishes people that do bad. It’s great to guess about certain things, but really, why make up some “guy in the sky” hypothesis that can never be tested nor proven?

oh, btw: HERETIC!!!

@tiki:
Faith is powerful. We believe what we wish to believe (I know, that’s not news). I’d like to believe in some benevolent power that created everything, looks out for us, and will give us a pat on the the back and some sort of debriefing when we die, but the very fact that I’d LIKE to believe makes my interpretations suspect. And I know I’m not alone here.

This is why I believe that there’s a teapot orbiting Mars.

Because no one has ever proved otherwise.

@Shanghai:
And atheist don’t believe what they are told because they have found the one and only truth without anybody telling them?

Your “holy book”, the New Testament, was actually written more like 1800 years ago. None of the gospels were written by anyone that was alive when any of it happened (that’s why they contradict each other).

“Christians and other theists will believe what they are told* to believe”

Fixed.

HA

RELIGIOUS DEBATE

C’mon guys, you’re clogging up my internet tubes. At least suck less at this.

And just to use a very simple example: As a Lutheran, do I have to believe that mankind was created 4000 B.C. just because Luther said so 500 years ago although we have proof he was wrong (and actually just called a random number because he didn’t care, too).

So, we know about Evolution, we know that mankind wasn’t created the way we know it today. So an approximatly 4.000 year old myth is busted. Still I cannot see any proof for the non-existence of any God at all.

So much for my humble point of view

Schrodingers cat explains quantum possibilities (Wrongly)- What really happens is everytime something happens, there is a “parellel” universe where it doesn’t. So the universe must exist, because it didn’t exist at the same time.