I am a constant reader of alan boyle and i recently had a conversation with my grandpa about him and my grandpa is a Fanatical and devout catholic and he said all the scientist and astrophycists are all atheist and i asked him why does he thinks That and he said that scientist are all trying hard to tell the world that there is no god and i told him that they are have for Billions of years been watching the skies for centuries and he suddenly burst out and says to me what do you think about the Fact that we are living in the biblical end times and i ask him if he thinks that because of harold camping and he says no and i Told him then why do you think that and he says that the are states legalizing gay marriage that marijuana is legal in colorado And that we are doomed because obama is the third antichrist that nostradamus predicted and that the mayas are a group Are a group of nameless gods who witnessed the birth of our universe and will watch it implode because to them the age of Mankind is but a blink in the eye and that our current world is the next sodom and gomorrah he left me speechles with that and i even showed him this site now i ask you what is your opinion of his beliefs how should i adress this?
what is your opinion of his beliefs
Honestly? My opinion is that these beliefs anger me to no end. It's insanity, and I'm sure even jesus would shake his head.
how should i adress this?
Agree to disagree. It's impossible to change a devout Christians mind. It borders on being mentally painful to try to make them see otherwise. You let him have his beliefs and you have yours and you just try not to discuss it.
A lie can travel half way around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
he said all the scientist and astrophycists are all atheist
Not all scientists and astrophyscists are atheists.
what do you think about the Fact that we are living in the biblical end times and i ask him if he thinks that because of harold camping and he says no and i Told him then why do you think that and he says that the are states legalizing gay marriage that marijuana is legal in colorado And that we are doomed because obama is the third antichrist that nostradamus predicted and that the mayas are a group Are a group of nameless gods who witnessed the birth of our universe and will watch it implode because to them the age of Mankind is but a blink in the eye and that our current world is the next sodom and gomorrah he left me speechles with that and i even showed him this site now i ask you what is your opinion of his beliefs how should i adress this?
He thinks this because gay marriage and marijuana is legal?…I am Catholic and I went to a Catholic school from grade 6 through graduating high school. We used to have Theology class and we learned that the story in revelations might have been visions that the author had seen during his lifetime or he was having nightmares but we learned it is most likely about the end of the first century and that the antichrist was Roman Emperor Nero. I think your grand father, being an older person feels that this is happening because the world is changing. It is changing, but in a GOOD way, we are more accepting of other people (race, gender, religious beliefs, sexuality) these days than we used to be back in the so called "good ol' days". Also, the USA isn't even mentioned in the Bible neither is Canada, and about Nostradamus. His predictions were so vague, most of them were written by other people throughout the years since his death.
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Also, in the Bible it mentions the Battle of Armageddon. It's a story about men on horseback fighting with swords. We don't fight wars like that anymore.
The simple minded and the uninformed can be easily led astray and those that cannot connect the dots, hey look the other way. People believe what they want to believe when it makes no sense at all ~ John Mellencamp
I showed my grandpa your answers and he was amazed how detailed your answers the only thing he was a little skeptical About the recent earthquake surge he told me that there have been 8 earthquakes in the last 2 weeks and he gets rattled he Is just a little bit paranoid that is what i think but what can we made about the recent spike in earthquakes and so close to The supposed end time date?
My dad is the same way. He is always talking about the 'End Times' and how we supposedly are living it right now. I try to argue back with him but I really don't get anywhere. He has strong opinions. He talks about the weather and the tornado in NY and asks "You think that is normal?", "We are living in the end times" "The bible foretold it". With these kinds of people you can only argue with them so much and you just have to give up and agree to disagree.
The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Earthquakes are not on the rise. http://www.2012hoax.org/earthquakes
Are Earthquakes Really on the Increase? We continue to be asked by many people throughout the world if earthquakes are on the increase. Although it may seem that we are having more earthquakes, earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater have remained fairly constant.A partial explanation may lie in the fact that in the last twenty years, we have definitely had an increase in the number of earthquakes we have been able to locate each year. This is because of the tremendous increase in the number of seismograph stations in the world and the many improvements in global communications. In 1931, there were about 350 stations operating in the world; today, there are more than 8,000 stations and the data now comes in rapidly from these stations by electronic mail, internet and satellite. This increase in the number of stations and the more timely receipt of data has allowed us and other seismological centers to locate earthquakes more rapidly and to locate many small earthquakes which were undetected in earlier years. The NEIC now locates about 20,000 earthquakes each year or approximately 50 per day. Also, because of the improvements in communications and the increased interest in the environment and natural disasters, the public now learns about more earthquakes.According to long-term records (since about 1900), we expect about 17 major earthquakes (7.0 - 7.9) and one great earthquake (8.0 or above) in any given year.
The simple minded and the uninformed can be easily led astray and those that cannot connect the dots, hey look the other way. People believe what they want to believe when it makes no sense at all ~ John Mellencamp
what can we made about the recent spike in earthquakes
Earthquakes in nearly all magnitude ranges are well down on last year and the total number of deaths from earthquakes this year may end up being the lowest for 12 years.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php
The thing is my grandpa is a history channel fan and the thing that got to me that bothered was that recently there was a show called countdown to apocalypse and the show's title was 2012 countdown to 12/21/12; maya's messengers i honestly only caught the headline that said people speak of a potential cataclysm on dec.21 which i mean that is the idea to scared people but my grandpa started crying and saying i don't mind dying but you are young and your cousins are young you don't deserve to die and that got to me because you know my grandpa is a 65 year old man who has sacrifice alot of things in his life and i do not want to see him like that