I know a couple that were told to murder their unborn child because doctors told them that he/she would be severely handicapped. They told the doctors that they would not kill/murder their unborn child.
They went home, got down on their knees and prayed to God for a miracle whilst telling him that they would accept whatever outcome they were given and unconditionally love the child no matter what.
They prayed for weeks on end and over the next few months more doctors and specialists attempted to convince them that murdering their child was in their best interests. They refused to kill their baby and they kept praying to God throughout the duration of the pregnancy.
16 years later their daughter is studying medicine because she is a genius that graduated high school at 14. She was admitted to college the following year as a 14 year old. She is also a classical pianist and she sings like an angel. She is not handicapped, far from it.
Murder is not a natural right!
You deem her a parasite - some of us view her as a gift from God.
Nice story. Nonetheless, a story. Hearsay and most likely like all miracles...bullshit
You can view it as a you like. Thing is you cannot tell other people what to do based on your beliefs about your imaginary friend.
It is truth - I rarely lie though all humans lie at times and I am not immune but not in this case and I have never lied on steemit.
You have chosen to file it away as a story because it fits your worldview.
You are going to meet my imaginary friend one day and he has a very special reward waiting for you.
Saying "it is truth" does not make it so. You just repeat what your magical book and pastor sais. You are a parrot.
Unlike you, I actually have evidence to believe what I believe.
There 16.000 religions on this planet and approximately 5.000 Gods. How do you know you picked the right religion. What if we both die and see a god that is half elephant half goat and he tell us "You were both wrong fuckers". I could say that there were many religious books and if he was God he surely could show up from tiem to time and take care all the suffering. He wouldn't hide to promote belief.
You see my friend. You cannot know. Nobody does. You are just afraid of death and you need something to cling upon. You have to accept the possibility that you are merely believing in a fairy tale.
I mean come on. Your religious story is about a God who send his son on earth, who is also himself in order to commit suicide on a piece of wood and then become a zombie and vanish in order to save his creations from the shit he put them into from the beginning.
If there is a God he is surely a twisted fucker
You have very little evidence to support what you believe - you have scientific propaganda!
Knowing the parents and seeing them live through the experience makes it truth - it doesn't suit your worldview so you dismiss it like the ignorant fool that you are.
1 Cor 2;14 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
It is impossible for you to know what I am saying - you are a lost cause IMHO because you sound like a reprobate (rejected by God). I hope that I am wrong.
Romans 1:21-26 - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Oh you want to play bible verses?
Exodus 21:7
"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are."
Deuteronomy 28:30-31,35
You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. . . . The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material. Leviticus 19:19
Leviticus 15: 19-20
When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening. Everything also on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean.
and my favourite
Deuteronomy 25:11-12
When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand.
Please entertain me more with your buffet christianity.
@kyriacos
You are my hero! Wonderful arguments my friend!