16th March 2003, 11:50 AM
Very good arguments by everyone.
I think it's funny how this debate over the pledge of allegiance has boiled over into an all-out religion fest.
My countering argument is that I was raised by agnostic parents. Two of my grandparents are Christian, the other two atheist. Out of that unbiased environment, I grew up without any Religios creed. In seventh grade, I hung out with my friend Robbie (some of you may remember him as The Phantom from CS), who is ardently Christian. For a year or two, I tried to be, but then logic persevered. From unbiased foundings, I weighed the logic and atheism won.
Weltall and almost all Christians are raised to believe in God; they never have any choice. They grow up praying just as much as they grow up speaking English and adapting to American culture. Other cultures grow up speaking Hindu or worshipping Allah and adapting to whatever culture. If there were one unifying God of everybody, why does he hide and never show himself...why did he not begin the world with all peoples being Christian...why did he chose to begin his religion at a centered point of the middle east, and why did he used Europeans to spread it throughout the Christian world? One of the 10 commandments is "there shalt be no other gods before me", or whatever it was...that meaning that all non-Christians are hell-bound, that means that 5 out of every 6 people are going to hell...? Do you really believe that? Why would God create us to save only one in six of us. There are so many logical points to be made, and all Christians can do is "have faith" in an unforeseen diety.
I think it's funny how this debate over the pledge of allegiance has boiled over into an all-out religion fest.
My countering argument is that I was raised by agnostic parents. Two of my grandparents are Christian, the other two atheist. Out of that unbiased environment, I grew up without any Religios creed. In seventh grade, I hung out with my friend Robbie (some of you may remember him as The Phantom from CS), who is ardently Christian. For a year or two, I tried to be, but then logic persevered. From unbiased foundings, I weighed the logic and atheism won.
Weltall and almost all Christians are raised to believe in God; they never have any choice. They grow up praying just as much as they grow up speaking English and adapting to American culture. Other cultures grow up speaking Hindu or worshipping Allah and adapting to whatever culture. If there were one unifying God of everybody, why does he hide and never show himself...why did he not begin the world with all peoples being Christian...why did he chose to begin his religion at a centered point of the middle east, and why did he used Europeans to spread it throughout the Christian world? One of the 10 commandments is "there shalt be no other gods before me", or whatever it was...that meaning that all non-Christians are hell-bound, that means that 5 out of every 6 people are going to hell...? Do you really believe that? Why would God create us to save only one in six of us. There are so many logical points to be made, and all Christians can do is "have faith" in an unforeseen diety.
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