ATHEIST OFFERS A$100,000 FOR PROOF OF RELIGION
Melbourne man, John Perkins, an economist and secular rationalist activist, is offering A$100,000 to believers who can prove their religion is true. Believing that God's existence could not be proved or disproved, Perkins said that billions of people worldwide thought only one religion is true — theirs — and to believe just one out of so many was irrational.
MELBOURNE atheist is offering $100,000 to believers who can prove their religion is true.
John Perkins — an economist, secular rationalist activist, and Senate candidate for the Secular Party — laid down his challenge at the Victorian Humanist Society's annual dinner on Wednesday night.
He told The Age he accepted that God's existence could not be proved or disproved. But billions of people worldwide thought only one religion was true — theirs — and to believe just one out of so many was irrational.
To win the cash, the evidence must be proved to be supernatural under agreed conditions and in front of Mr Perkins. "If, for example, someone had a weeping statue of Jesus or the Hindu god Ganesh that drank milk — claims that are quite often made — it would have to be something concrete like that," he said. "An ancient text or philosophical argument won't do."
Mr Perkins admitted he did not have $100,000 but said he could raise it in the unlikely event it were needed.
He agreed that some people might think the challenge was a stunt. "But it has a serious intent, which is to challenge people to think about why they believe things."
The Rationalist Society of Australia has declined to endorse the challenge, saying a claimant would have prove something was true in the supernatural world, which was nonsense. As rationalists did not believe such a thing existed, they could not judge such a claim.
Rationalist president Ian Robinson said it might tarnish the society's good name before neutral observers.
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Obviously this man believes the Egyptians built the pyramids from the ground up because so many others do.
I for one believe they didn't and it is this very kind of challenge for proof that made the man Jesus step up to the plate as Isaiah's Messiah. Backed up no doubt by the many angry parents who lost one or more of their babies in Herod’s slaughter.
After years of reading and researching what the bible says and interpretations of it, I am very inclined to think the centre piece of the Templars treasure is the real body of Jesus. A secret suppressed by large numbers who did not want their biblical fairytale to come to an end. Fearful of the consequences such exposure would bring to religious belief. And we know hearsay is only about what Christians don't want us to know or hear.
In bringing forth documents on the Knights Templars because it became an interest to many after the movie, the Vatican made over 6 million dollars in sales of said documents. If there existed 70,000 templars {said to have been killed} why wasn't their treasure shown to the world at the time with these men guarding it. It had to be something that could start a war with devastating consequences, and not just riches of gold and other priceless metals.
Personally I hope they find it buried right under their noses in a place like Champagne Castle in south east Africa.
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