Originally Posted by
The Atheist
Yes, I do.
It's been shown time and time again that "miracles" in church are fake, while none have been shown to be true.
In the lack of reputable evidence to the contrary, I must presume fakery.
I believe you've been tricked or lied to, but I will also note that people are awful eyewitnesses. This is nothing against you personally, but it's again demonstrable that people seeing exactly the same event will report it vastly differently to each other.
But it can be seen.
The parts of the brain which work to create what we call love are well known and it can be seen working in scans of the brain, so I'm quite comfortable with it being a human construct based upon existeing instinctual traits.
I"m quite sure you're not faking personally, because I know what the human brain is capable of. I'm quite sure it's very real to you.
You missed the point - it's not what Benny Hinn does from a religious perspective, it's because he's a proven fraud.
His act is carried out with people with pretend illnesses and paid volunteers who pretend to go into a trance.
My point was that your church, which will be of relatively recent formation, believes in something which the vast majority of christianity do not. I find it odd that organisations which arose in the past few decades still use theology which was renounced by that vast majority many years ago.
It's quite obvious that some people want to believe in eternal punishment.
You should attend a Buddhist temple at some stage - there are thousands of palagi Buddhists in NZ.
Please don't take offence, but you are clearly lacking in perspective on other religions - your entire knowledge seems to be someone else's interpretation of one book.
