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It doesn't have to do with being lazy, I don't think. It's because we're scared, and the universe is such a big place. Man needs a crutch, so to speak. Religion does that for us. It comforts us, allows us to believe that at the end of it all it will all be explained, that it will all be okay and that we can be happy for eternity, something we barely get to experience on earth.
Religion is about hope. In the end, isn't that all we really have is hope?
God is true. One day everyone will be convinced cause everyone will SEE him. For the meantime, I can't prove to you that he is true. It's about FAITH. For those who don't believe, I guess everything just landed on this earth by luck but it happens to be perfect and man has yet to figure it all out. Smoke a blunt and think about where you came from. Your daddy shot a load in your mommy and it formed you. Then your mommy let you suck on here titties. Is that an evolution thing? How did evolution leave us a man and a woman to multiply? I could go on and on but I'm not here to convince anyone cause I can't, but I know that what I believe is TRUE. NO DOUBT. PEACE
PRAISE THE LORD
oh man, this is why so many people believe in faith over non-theism, because they don't understand the evolutionary process one bit. All I'm gonna say here is evolution, or any theories about our origins, don't depend on us being "lucky", or things happening by *POOF* "Accident!".Quote:
Originally Posted by Pass That Shit
God didn't come form nothing, God has always been, no beginning, no end :) .Quote:
Originally Posted by Oneironaut
Yet people don't allow the universe the same benefit of the doubt.Quote:
Originally Posted by likemclever
My thoughts exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrdevious
To me, the universe is god.
What people? Show them to me so I can wag my finger at them :D .Quote:
Originally Posted by mrdevious
I guess now the only reason for us to still have religion despite the advance in science is because people are still being taught what is to be of "fact" while they are a toddler, huh? I'm still trying to make my mind deny God as a real being. Weed and reading lots of books on philosophy help, IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oneironaut
Most people have a deepseated need to justify their existence.
Why am I here? What is the purpose of life?
God makes them feel special about it. I'm here because a magical man in the sky wants me to be here. Most people are happier believing in God than they would be if they were ever convinced that he wasn't there. Even if God is a fabrication of the human mind, he fills his purpose. His purpose is to give people hope, to make them accept their lot in life and run with it. Maybe he makes them not commit crime because he's always lookin over their shoulder. Maybe he makes them live a good life so they don't go to hell.
At some basic level, I think most people progress from the belief that there _should be_ a God to the belief in any specific man-in-the-sky. I think that's telling.
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. We're in the age of LIGHT now, the dawn of a new century, false hierachys, suffering, poverty, religion, will all be erradicated in the comming centurys, and good ridance, all mankind has to show for the last two thousand agonising years of suffering and war is the Church, and marriage, besides that its all hearsay, and what your personal faith or belief is, is what you see to be true, even if in actuality it isn't, that's what makes faith such a dangerous tool, on the other hand it can inspire and be totally selfless, but it is too easily corrupted. Times we're now in are just setbacks, religion will keep rearing its ugly heard until it is destroyed, and although I personally believe that religion does have a place in a harmonious future, it needs to have its power lines crushed and totally erradicated for it too have a place where Science and Technology take the forefront. I would choose logic over faith any day of the week, but that's just me, and for humanity too prosper, the wakkos also need to be considerated.
''This Golden Age is destined to synthesize all religious regimes and free the minds of ignorance and delusion forever. Once enlightened, each human being will begin his or her individual journey within, and strive to become the new race of super conscious humans awakening seekers of Truth and the eternal Spirit, healing peoples of many tongues and nations in the process. In this new millennium there will be no more falsehoods or derision, but spiritual living and third-eye vision. The Human Family is truly entering the Age of mystic revelations and the mind's true liberation which is broadly known as spiritualism or New Millennium Religion.''