User talk:SouthWriter/sandbox/An atheist's objections/@comment-1777104-20100809021253

McG, Touché! Infinite points!! I was assuming Sunkist was referring to Yank's remarks about the Bible. It's encouraging seeing the support you're getting for your confession of faith.

And you are right, McG, about not condemning (aka "judging"). That is the responsibility of God alone. However, we are to discern the spirits the best we can, in order to avoid mistakes and falling for deceptions that unbelievers will send our way.

Matt, actually this topic was answering an atheists objections to the Bible and its God, not the worn-out debating topic of evolution. But that is a clever use of "d/evolve." And yes, the right answer is Jesus wins. He "made the winning shot" (the only goal of the game!).

To your joking question, Jazon, Jesus doesn't use microwaves - He's too big for that. He uses resurrection power! And seeing that he doesn't have to eat (though he can), I'd say that the atomized hot pocket would do just fine for him. Also, as you most probably realize, the resurrection at the end will take some people before they die, and any "immortals" will be changed into their resurrected form along with the others - to be suitable for an everlasting punishment or reward, depending on their standing with God.

You are right about Satanism, it is no laughing matter. Unless you are Satan. The very few actual "Satanists" are rarely laughing, for they are in fear of their master. What passes for laughter is more like the manic behavior of the insane. The reality of the world, though, is that Satan does not seek "followers," but chooses to deceive mankind into worship itself. The most dangerous "religion" is irreligious - the two most common forms being "humanism" and "materialism."

Humanism is the belief that humanity is the highest order of animal on the earth by the mere chance that the environment favored the race over all other animals. That makes it a subset of "materialism," the belief that all that exists is what can be detected by our senses or our instruments. In its strictest sense, materialism is fatalism that assumes everything just happens based on unseen causes (and there is nothing we can do to stop it).