re: Mark Wahlberg says faith is ‘not popular in my industry,’ but he won’t deny his

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quote: Why are we on here promoting a convicted felon who violently and permanently disabled someone? Who among us has not sinned?

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I find it hypocritical how out for blood people usually are on this site only to turn a blind eye when it’s someone they like.

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So much bullshite.

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You must be a relativist. That’s what you’re defending.

Well, relativist, on what grounds do you claim something is bullshite? You don’t believe in objective truth. How can it be bullshitt?

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Well, relativist, on what grounds do you claim something is bullshite? You don’t believe in objective truth. How can it be bullshitt?

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Nevermind.

Hard to believe I live in the 21st century sometimes when people believe in demigods and evil demons that try to sabotage us from some spirit world.

Dahmer will greet marky mark at the pearly gates

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his job to rear his kids to

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follow Christ and get them to heaven.

This teaching isn't Catholic or Protestant, they are universally Christian.

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So much bullshite.

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In that case, thank goodness you've arrived in this thread, my friend. Would you humbly consider enlightening us with your superior understanding of the cosmos?

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Nevermind.

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Oh. Just stopping in to waste what little precious time you have left of your existence to take potshots, I see.

I hope it made you feel better. If you're right, and it's all "bullshite," then - in the end - it won't matter one way or the other for either of us anyways.

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People need to find religion or lack of religion in their own. Brainwashing your kids to blindly follow your faith without question takes away from their growth.

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Ridiculous. This all comes back to the values you want to raise your kids with. You aren’t brainwashing them, you are laying the foundation for the values you are attempting to instill in them.

People trying to raise their kid “Just to be a good person” is a recipe for failure. What is a good person? Who defines what a “good person” is? Why should they be a good person in a situation if it is to their detriment?

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Although faith is important to the "Uncharted" actor,

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Interviewing him and referring him to the uncharted actor would be like someone interviewing shaq and referring him to the Boston Celtics player

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Would you humbly consider enlightening us with your superior understanding of the cosmos?

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Well, I will give you a few reasons why I don’t believe in God. How about that?

1. There’s no verifiable proof of the existence of deities. Not much different from ghosts, Bigfoot, extraterrestrials, etc. Humans have claimed to have seen countless beings and creatures for which there is no solid proof.

If you want me to believe something very different from the norm, you’re going to have to show me compelling evidence for it.

2. Most of the popular religions that center on a deity (or deities) originated thousands of years ago when people were far more primitive and ignorant and there was a lot less scrutiny. No cameras, reporters, televisions, advanced science, etc., to expose hoaxes.

3. I believe religion has persisted out of social tradition. People almost always adopt the religion of their culture or heritage, and it’s obvious a religion needn’t be “true” to gain a lot of followers.

Children are taught by the people they trust the most (parents) to believe a certain thing and disregard anything to the contrary and it usually sticks, especially if further supported by the community - which it almost always is.

4. People only need religion because they have been taught that they need religion. Our distant ancestors survived a hell of a lot harder world than the one we live in long before there was a Jesus. No one needs religion.

5. Regarding Christianity specifically, I believe evolution and the age of Earth conflict with Original Sin.

I think the concept of Original Sin only makes sense if there was no death or suffering prior to the first transgression by Man. However, this is not the case. Life suffered and died for hundreds of millions of years before anyone dreamed up sin. Death is not the fault of Man, which means there’s no need for a savior to redeem us from something that wasn’t our fault.

And then the thing about the entire Earth being flooded about 4,000 years ago.

People look at these stories now and say, “Well, maybe they were allegorical.” Well, they believed them to be literally true before modern science. And if Adam and Noah were meant to be allegorical figures to convey some conceptual truth, maybe Jesus was too.

To believe the Bible as inerrant is to completely deny pretty much every aspect of modern science or twist the wording into a pretzel.

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I hope it made you feel better. If you’re right, and it’s all “bullshite,” then - in the end - it won’t matter one way or the other for either of us anyway.”

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Nonsense.

We are blessed beyond measure to have the capacity to appreciate the beauty around us and establish connections with people in our domain.

You don’t have to live forever or believe in God to look at something like Moraine Lake, Mt. Everest, your first born child, the paintings of the Louvre, a beautiful woman that you love, and go, “Wow!”

Regardless of how we got here and acquired our sentience, we are here. That’s more than enough for me. I don’t have to live eternally to appreciate it. I might even say the fact that we don’t live forever and are vulnerable every second of our lives makes it all that much more beautiful.

Mark is very luck that Vietnamese guy in Boston had good doctors or he would just be getting out of jail now