when chess & faith collide

so, @chessandfaith has been posting topics repeatedly and getting them locked repeatedly.  now that's real faith.

https://www.chess.com/blog/Chessandfaith/need-christians-for-chess-group

https://www.chess.com/blog/Chessandfaith/need-christians-for-chess-group-1

https://www.chess.com/blog/Chessandfaith/need-christians-for-chess-group-2

https://www.chess.com/blog/Chessandfaith/need-christians-for-chess-group-3

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/need-christians-for-chess-group

https://www.chess.com/blog/Chessandfaith/need-christians-for-chess-group-4

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/need-christians-for-chess-group-1

https://www.chess.com/blog/Chessandfaith/need-christians-for-chess-group-5

https://www.chess.com/blog/Chessandfaith/need-christians-for-chess-group-6

https://www.chess.com/blog/Chessandfaith/need-christians-for-chess-group-7

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/need-christians-for-chess-group-4

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/need-christians-for-chess-group

https://www.chess.com/blog/Chessandfaith/need-christians-for-chess-group-8

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/great-christian-group

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/nice-brand-new-christian-group

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/all-christians

or chess.com is just not getting their message through to him.

Sheffield's best, and one of my favorites ..........

That Jim Carey gif is something else. I actually sat here and watched it twenty times.

ok den.

Funny that it's only the Christians who like to break ToS.

I like to break TOS by discussing religion and politics, and I'm definitely not a Christian.

lol I mean as a whole.

I don't even like this song, but the title made it pop into my head for the first time in forever.

you do the work of the lord without even knowing it

hah!

lol

And, you know, the whole reason that dying for something is an ultimate sacrifice is that death is permanent.

Dying and then coming back to life a few days later is like someone gifting you "all their money"

But then you find out "all their money" is meaningless because they have a machine that prints money.

(Plus you find out that not only did they have this machine all along, but they're the ones who put you into debt in the first place, and watched you suffer for 50 years before helping you out by sacrificing "all their money.")

It's like, oh gee, thanks, you're a really nice guy...

I've always said, write the same story but remove the names and 100% of sane people would agree God is a dick.

in non-abrahamic religions, phallus worship was extremely common - they knew.

"But you don't understand, it's about morality, if you don't believe then where does morality come from?"

First of all, there are natural explanations, but putting that aside, it's not "all about morality"

Not at all. It's about vanity. God doesn't demand you live morally, the first and most important commandment is to love God. Jesus said so. Half of the 10 commandments are vanity "love me, only me, all day Sunday, and keep my name out yo mouth" It's ridiculous.

Two people. One lives a good life, and on their deathbed someone says "this is the story of Jesus, do you believe?" if they don't then they go to hell.

One lives a horrible life, hurts millions of people, and on their deathbed someone says "this is the story of Jesus, do you believe?" If they do, then they go to heaven.

If good people don't go to heaven (and bad people do) then it's not a place worth going to anyway.

Like I said, remove the names, tell the same story, and look what you got...

I am hindu. I guess the stories are different.

Yeah, I'm just trashing on Christianity.

lol

Anyway, that's just the fun / provocative way to talk about it. The real problem (for religion as a whole, not just Christianity) is epistemological.

I could go on and on, but I should stop (I deleted most of this post).