Serious question on faith...

Originally posted by NOTurTypical

Originally posted by rom12345
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire

"See what a fool Christianity makes of an otherwise brilliant man! Here a scientist actually writes that men may travel at a rate of 30 or 40 m.p.h. Has he forgotten that if man would travel at this rate he would be suffocated? His heart would stand still!"

Same Voltaire

Thing is, he never took him self all that seriously, so any blunders are totally forgivable.

Originally posted by rom12345

Originally posted by NOTurTypical

Originally posted by rom12345
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire

"See what a fool Christianity makes of an otherwise brilliant man! Here a scientist actually writes that men may travel at a rate of 30 or 40 m.p.h. Has he forgotten that if man would travel at this rate he would be suffocated? His heart would stand still!"

Same Voltaire

Thing is, he never took him self all that seriously, so any blunders are totally forgivable.

Ahh, yes, naturally.

Voltaire mocked Sir Issac Newton because based on scripture, he said one day men would fly as eagles in the sky.

Perhaps, but he was more of a Satirist than a scientist.
and his works remind us all to see the humor in life.

Originally posted by rom12345
Perhaps, but he was more of a Satirist than a scientist.
and his works remind us all to see the humor in life.

The greatest humor I've received from Voltaire is that he hated Christians and the Bible, then after his death a Bible publisher bought his house and they began printing Bibles out of it.

Serious lols.

Actually he hated the hypocrisy of the church.

"Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once."

"The first priest was the first rogue who met the first fool."

"Superstition, born of paganism and adopted by Judaism, invested the Christian Church from earliest times. All the fathers of the Church, without exception, believed in the power of magic. The Church always condemned magic, but she always believed in it: she did not excommunicate sorcerers as madmen who were mistaken, but as men who were really in communication with the devil."

"To worship God and to leave every other man free to worship Him in his own way; to love one's neighbor, enlightening them if one can and pitying those who remain in error; to dimiss as immaterial all questions that would have given us no trouble if no importance had been attached to them- this is my religion, it is worth all your systems and symbols."

"Would you believe that while the flames were consuming these innocent victims, the inquisitors and the other savages were chanting prayers? These pitiless monsters were invoking the God of mercy...While committing the most atrocious crime."

"Holy Scripture: A book sent down from heaven.... Holy Scriptures contain all that a Christian should know and believe, provided he adds to it a million or so commentaries.

I am not trying to antagonize, I believe in "Truth" , as a serious question of faith.

God cannot exists without truth.
Truth however needs no God.

I "believe" in "God"(but not in the arrogantly anthropomorphized christian sense), I need no faith.

""Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

Between Truth and God, which would you choose ?