Facts vs Feelings




Information From http://carm.org/religion-cause-war

What people need to do is divorce themselves from false "truisms" that they happily embrace to support their opinions/feelings. There is tons of information out there to access and research, and any conclusions should come from facts and not feelings. Sentimentality doesn't determine what's true or not, either. Objectivity all around.

When it comes to study, learn what you're arguing for and what you're arguing against.

So, yes, religion does cause battles and war and genocide – but less than 7%. Dogma in general causes those things, and it doesn't have to be religious dogma; just look at Stalin and Hitler. According to the Bible, the gospel (what Jesus did for murders and all kinds of sinners) causes less violence in the world not more; that's in terms of changing people and making them sin less – the persecutors who aren't changed are gonna ramp up the violence toward believers.

Hitler was a syncretist who imprisoned gospel-preaching pastors and had not the slightest problem with racial extermination.

So try to find a real Christian. See how they're like and find out why. Their profession should be considered "likely true" based on their theology, and it is because of their theology that they are peculiar – that they are the way they are.

[Read the posts above and below to learn what the gospel is – to study that theology.]

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Another edit/addition:
This illustration popped in my mind today regarding the objection "People have Murdered in the name of God!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_69VqyTIgzA)

Ronald Reagan was shot in the name of Jodie Foster.
Hinckley is the one who sent him to the hospital – a deranged man wanting to get her attention.
Did she call for that attempted murder? No.
Was she in cahoots with Hinckley? No.
Were they even involved with each other in any way? No.

P.S. Here's a lecture on violence in the Bible and Church History: Part 1 - Part 2
A letter to Dr. James White from a fair deist or atheist: http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php/2008/10/25/you-never-know-who-is-listening-and-watching/
A lecture on not mixing opposing worldviews: here  
And a lecture on defining tolerance rightly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyTa5r4GG4M&list=PL5D2071851931F4FF

Skepticism should lead to Study

"God will go a long way in revealing himself to an honest skeptic. If you've got questions, don't sit passively by. Go get the answers! The walls of Christianity are not so thin that an honest questioner is gonna poke his hand and go, 'Oh Gosh, I sure wish I didn't ask that question; the whole thing's a farce.' No no no no no. Listen. The truths of Christianity have satisfied [some of] the greatest minds in human history; and most of us are not even capable of framing a question for which there's not a phenomenal answer. Don't hide behind your duds. Go get answers. Don't withdraw."

-Pastor James MacDonald

Lecture Clips

http://www.youtube.com/News2urEars
http://www.bit.ly/News2urEars_descrip
Lecture 1: Existence | Lecture 2 part 1 - pt. 2 | Follow the Logic

My post on Facts vs Feelings & Violence in the Bible:
http://news2urears.blogspot.com/2012/12/facts-vs-feelings.html
And a letter to Dr. James White from a fair deist or atheist:
http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php/2008/10/25/you-never-know-who-is-listening-and-watching/

I thought I knew what it was all about... I DIDN'T

I heard about God, Jesus, and the Bible for almost 20 years and thought I knew what it was all about.

I DIDN'T.

I never looked into the information, but just assumed I already knew.

But this is either the most valuable information you can ever hear, or knowing it will just help you to understand people (by actually understanding what they believe). No longer will you scratch your head saying "What's the Big Deal Anyway?" or "How the heck could someone dedicate their life to a religion?”

This YouTube video playlist will teach you what the Bible says its premise or Main Point is. If this information is as valuable as it claims to be, you owe it to yourself and your loved ones (friends, family) to look into it. It will put you on the start of a path of research: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5D2071851931F4FF

Go ahead and view the videos in the playlist. If you want a text summary of the same information, continue reading the posts being added to this blog (taken from my Google Doc www.bit.ly/News2urEars_descrip).
The speeches, lectures, and sermons here hold a terrific summary, too:

The two topmost sermons here: http://www.wayofthemaster.com/audiolessons.shtml *
and this: Grafted In - Passover

[3 hours]

* No Adobe Flash on your computer or device? Use these two links instead:
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=517121529420
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=517121549270

Supplementary lectures: 

Existence* | Lecture 2 pt.1 and pt. 2 | Apologetics | Paradox vs. Contradiction | Follow the Logic | "Saved"? | A Wretch - Like Me | More Passover | Gentiles? | Hucksters (with slides) - pt. 2a | Usurping
*(the referenced pictures)