Religion thread type-R

No because they probably think a talking cat is sacrilage.

meh, ok.  I\'ll call you in a bit to say goodnight.  :x

Ever heard of pm? j/k

Originally posted by SwifDi


He\'s God! What are you so confused about?!?! He has the ability to do anything.. Oh and it wasn\'t one poof, it was seven days. And the complexity is from your perspective, not God\'s.

Actually God didn`t create time as we know it until the "sixth day" so there is no telling how long it took to create the Earth and life upon it

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SPUDZ:  A lot of the stories in the bible I believe are written by people who do some major shrooming.  Hence all the freaky shit like walking on water and parting of the seas.


SWIFDI:  I don\'t think anyone is disputing that there was a Jesus.  A lot of the stories in the bible are probably very true.  Probably embelished, but also true.  But did God really create us?   Did God really give Jesus power?  This is where the fiction comes in...

THEOMEN:  I have the exact same views as you do.  
* Raises a pint.  Protects penis with other hand for Omen sees an opportunty.

SIRMYSTIQ:  Glad you were man enough to give credit for what you wrote.  As if anyone would think you could write that.


VID:  I have said it a number of times.  The bible is a bunch of stories written by a bunch of people who were probably tripping..  I doubt if many of the people who wrote these stories had even a clue they would be worshipped like they are and billions of dollars a year would be drawn out of people because in order to enjoy this religion you have to supply funds to the church.

Organized religion is a huge scam.  The number of churches out there that are just in it for the money is ridiculous.  I remember one time we went to a church on CHristmas and in the hour long service he speant 20 minutes talking about religion and over a half an hour talking about helping them out by donating so they could build a new edition on to the church.  I guess he took the opportunity of a bunch of people in the audience to pitch for some cash.

Religion is a convenient way to pass on your problems to the unknown.  "It\'s ok I lost my wife and my job..  God will provide."  "Yeah, I killed the guy, but since then I\'ve found God and I\'m a better man."

Whatever.

Im almost in tears.

This is pretty hilarious; I mean you are trying to change what I believe over the internet? You say Im some dumb**** that knows shit about religion?

What makes you any smarter than me? Explain smart; is it knowledge? Wisdom? Experience? You dont even know me, so dont act like you do.

I belive their was some guy named Jesus who made a story up, to make everyone believe their was a higher power. This story was rejected by many, hence his death.

And yeah, he smoked the herb; So I mean? Does that help your credibility?

All religion is is a big excuse for something of a higher power. We human beings are ignorant. Years ago, we didnt believe in evolution at all, now with technological breakthroughs and everything else we are now beginning to realise the posibility of it.

BTW; If God created earth, and everything; than who created God? Uber God? And who created him? He couldnt have just been their forever, it hurts both sides of me saying this; by saying, What about the parts that created the scientific form of earth?

Honestly; I dont think the world will ever know weither God is real, or not. But I choose to follow the path that I believe is correct.

So you can bash me, flame me, curse at me, and tell me Im an ignorant fool; but you know what? I could do the same, and what difference does it make?

SPUDZ! THIS IS G0D SPEAKING THROUGH SAMWISE\'S ACCOUNT: YOU WILL BURN IN HELL! HAVE A NICE DAY.

God, did I ever tell you that you have nice legs?

*rubs gods crotch

[Kurt Angle]

BWAHAAAAAAAHAAAAA @ Sammy!!

I just got myself a new sig

OK since a couple of you exploded over my "putting God in the back seat thread is causing suffering"  I\'ll explain it

It was yet another post by me that I would have explained to your perfectly then and there if I was speaking with you directly in person.

So because of my comment most of you automaticly assume I am saying that lack of God in peoples lives has called all wars and all problems.  I never said that.  I said there was MORE suffering because of people having lack of faith in God.  People throughout history,  even a few years after Garden and Eden a few years after the flood that left God behind and went on to pursue greedy things and selfish desires.

The suffering I was speaking of was the deteriation of todays youths,  family marriages that dont last,  violence,  no love,  all these things.  If more people had a relationship with God the number of divorces,  unwanted pregnancies,  violence,  school shootings etc come to mind would be reduced.  I never said anything about wars.  Greedy cooporations take all the money then let the corporation fall,  Enron,  all these crooked energy guys in california,  all these people are causing suffering because of their lack of godly principles

Originally posted by Spudz




I belive their was some guy named Jesus who made a story up, to make everyone believe their was a higher power. This story was rejected by many, hence his death.

 

You are such an idiot.

The End.

Originally posted by magepaster
Actually God didn`t create time as we know it until the "sixth day" so there is no telling how long it took to create the Earth and life upon it

This is a good point.  Each "day" mentioned in Genesis Chapter 1 wasnt literal 24 hours.  Moses used "day" to describe a period of time.  A day could be millions of years.  Like you would say in the "day" of my grandfather,  referring to a period of time.  Also the Bible sums up all of the creative days by saying "This is the history of the heavens and the earth,  in the "day" God created them."  Moses sums up all creative days as one "day" or period of time

And creating a human body isnt so difficult to higher beings,  as wicked angels were able to do so before the flood

The suffering I was speaking of was the deteriation of todays youths, family marriages that dont last, violence, no love, all these things. If more people had a relationship with God the number of divorces, unwanted pregnancies, violence, school shootings etc come to mind would be reduced.

I\'d have to disagree with this part.  There are a number of reasons why people suffer and it\'s not because they don\'t have a relationship with God.  There are people who are very intuned with God and still have a lot of crap go on in their life.  There are people who don\'t have a religion at all and still have a pretty good life.

Would the statement still be true in my case?  I don\'t have a relationship (if there is one at all) with God the same way you do, but does that automatically make me susceptible to becoming pregnant with an unwanted child?  Does that make me violent?  Does that make me want to tote a  gun to school and shoot everyone?  No because my parents brought me up to be smarter than that.  They taught me that there are better things when I follow the alternative to those negativities.

Basically, all those negative things come to how a person is brought up.  People nowadays don\'t have time to watch their kids grow up like parents in the past have.  In the extreme cases, kids who don\'t feel the love and care that only a parent can give will do crazy things.  So one can say that our changing society is screwing up the future generation.  Our society hasn\'t learned how to fuse family life and work life to make them work yet.

I believe the reason why people would say \'be with God = have a good life\' is because God, the church, the Bible have a set of guidelines and virtues that are good to a person\'s mental and emotional health.  Like "honor thy mother and father" is something good to believe in.  But Christianity isn\'t the only religion that promotes such positive lessons and morals.  A family following the teachings of Buddha can have the same results.  Same with Islam, Judaism, animism.  Religion is a postive institution in this sense, then.  Religion offers those virtues and guidelines in a written out form.  Parents can make a checklist of what they\'ve taught their kids and what needs to be taught still because it\'s written out.

I respect your opinion,  as I\'m sure you do mine.

You make alot of good points,  I\'m just saying following the bible guidlines has helped my family stay together in very tough times,  and I\'ve seen it help other families,  but I have seen some families who have faith break down,  so the Bible does help,  but its really up to the individual to follow what it says.  

I\'ve seen people go to church then turn around and kill someone,  its up to the individual.  I\'m just saying give God a shot,  I have seen too many people drop a bad way of life and become good people to not believe that faith in God and his Bible does not help you

I respect your opinion too.  I\'m just saying that a person who\'s had it bad can take many different roads to get his/her life back on track.  I\'ve seen a couple of people who had a change for the better after finding God.  I\'ve also seen people who have lost faith in their church only to turn to other denominations or other religions and find their true happiness.  It all really depends on the person on where they find their happiness.  Some people believe that they have found their happiness in whatever guidelines they\'re following and prefer not to continue searching when they\'ve found what they were looking for.  All we can say is kudos to them.