I used to be a strong christian, but then an obese neckbeard referred to God as a "sky daddy" and now my faith has been shaken

That's because 'god' is a man-made concept and 'god' is usually referred to by Xtians as a male form, which is theoretically impossible as 'god' is not a human but a concept to explain all that humans don't understand about the universe we live in.

Religion(s) are cults basically. Cults focused on money (as they're commercial businesses) and control (as they are based on fear-mongering).

Look at Renee Bach or Paula White just as two examples.

Once something becomes a religion anything can be justified in it's name and non-believers are likened to being devil worshippers and witches.

It sounds like he has a Faith in Science.
He will accept anything from a science book without really understanding the concepts but rather point his finger at the book and say “well it’s in here”.
Get to know your Holy Bible and a knowledge of science doesn’t hurt.

To me you never had faith in the first place since it was so easily shaken.

They generally say magical sky Daddy!

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Not magical but supernatural, extraterrestrial, God our Father is an entity that can do what man only dreams of. And actually he is the ultimate scientist - he can create, he can give life, he he can destroy that which he created. The universe's and space is his and time has no hold on him.

Even scientists now say time doesn't exist!

Even science now says everything is made out of energy even that which appears and feels like it's solid matter.

And like energy which science says was not created and cannot be destroyed but can change forms _ our Father was not created, nor can he be destroyed, but he can change forms..... He is like living energy with the ability to give life _ to form matter _ to form those who are called angels, to earthlings, to what scientist cannot see and they can only see five percent of this universe and have no idea what lies beyond it.

Magical it's a good word but supernatural is better.

Ask Jesus Christ to give you faith… And pray about it daily

Yeah then I listen to a podcast by some guys like James Tour or Steven Meyer. John Lennox etc and I have a belly laugh at the atheists' brain dead answer to how we came into being.

People who don't want to believe in God grasp at any information they hear that tells them there is no God.. If you Love the truth no amount of deception will move you from it..

I’m going to steal the phrase “obese neckbeard”.

Hope you resolve your crisis of faith.

The author of this book is a great welth of information

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Sky daddy shouldn't be thought a derrogatory term. Sky is easily thought 'elsewhere' and Abrahamic faiths do assign 'father' to God. I personally feel that 'magic alien' is the better, more precise term.

Secularists are always spouting ignorance with an air of "knowing" when they don't really know anything.

Don't let it bother you.

It's up to you what you believe... Leaving your friend out of it for a moment, science, once agree upon by peers, is based on facts though...

Science, reason and critical thinking are incompatible with Religious Cults

Believing in a more higher being than us takes faith

Keep up the faith and don’t let people like that get to you

We hope the man upstairs won't shut the power off.

I don't know of a sky daddy.

Just ignore the words he said

they sound arrogant

Lolwut

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Your belief or non-belief in a higher power is your own. It's your answer, your journey, no one else's.

I think he's also the one that should be demonstrating this kind of smug sarcasm