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My wife and I raised our three son's independent, to be their choice when they had the mind to choose. I was raised devout Catholic in an Italian immigrant family so the routine is clear. My wife was raised a mid-western Protestant in SoCal. Both of us were equally turned off by the "crammed down our throats" environment. So we married Protestant in respect of her grandparents. My side of the family CGAF at this point. She was happy, I was happy. Besides, it was her Father's dime.

So now, many years later, my three sons have gone astray. The eldest, 26, reads and tries to live by Buddha. The middle one, well he would rather grill a tri-tip and pour down a MGD than even think about religion. The youngest, an 18 year old freshman at A&M, is there with his high school sweetheart. They, together, are trying to find a church and a like community. When he left our house he had zero of a view and, all told, didn't care to get "it". I suspect he will find what he and she want in religion and will be fine. My wife and I? Well we continue as we have. She knows my view and I know hers. We don't talk about it. In the end it all has seemed to have sorted itself.

I am ABC too.

And gets eternal salvation. For every positive there is a negative. The negative of proof is faith.

Evolutionists use the belief in evolution as their starting point. That is circular also. The thing about evolution is one has to start with nothing and get something. The creationists start with Infinite Intelligent Energy we call God. One follows the basic concept of science, cause and effect, and the other does not. Both are circular but one is reasonable.

We more or less know what you believe, why don't you tell us why you believe it?

Humans are created in God's Image. We get our narcissism from Him. He is the Biggest Narcissist. His ego is the biggest. And He's in charge.

I begin with, "I think, there for I am". That is along way from beginning with The Theory of Evolution.

There no equivalence between the Skeptic and those who hold a belief system in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

The bolden is a perfect example of the evolutionist.

Too improper I suppose.

Live and let live.

Thats good enough for me.

Literally, everything in your post is wrong...literally.

From the DSM-5:

A delusion is a belief that is held with strong conviction despite evidence disproving it that is stronger than any evidence supporting it. It is distinct from an erroneous belief caused by incomplete information (misconception or misunderstanding), deficient memory (confabulation) or incorrect perception (illusion). The psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers proposed 3 criteria for delusional beliefs in 1913: certainty (the belief is held with absolute conviction), incorrigibility (the belief cannot be changed with any proof to the contrary) and impossibility or falsity (the belief cannot be true) (Jaspers, 1967). Delusions are associated with a variety of mental and neurological disorders, but are of diagnostic importance in the psychotic disorders.

So...... Atheists are the only ones who are not delusional?

The vast majority of humans believe in a Higher Power and most claim to recieve some PRESENT benefits from their beliefs. But you say they are deluded.

You offer no proof that they are deluded, but you are certain that they are.

Because YOU do not believe in a Higher Power.

I can't see where you have a very persuasive argument.

So then you don't accept the basic concept of science is cause and effect? How can one conduct experiments without it?

Those are your words, not mine.

All I did was post the definition.

This describes classic evolutionism!

That's intellectual cowardice on your part. Why else would you post the definition?

Because the basis of science is not cause and effect.

It's observation.

Talk about a hanging curveball.....w e will see if Ringman can blast it out of the park.

hippie atheists....