rawls wrote:
Religion is the answer. Everyone walks around pondering there very existence. Why stress over the answer when it can be found in religion. Look at the Bible for what it is. It is a handbook on how to live. People need to follow the life lessons in the Bible to realize the purpose of existence.
"Your ignorance for believeing in religion makes you look stupid. THERE IS NO FUCKING GOD. WE EVOLVED. NO INVISIBLE PASSIVE MAN GIVES A FUCK ABOUT YOU."-quoted for retardedness and ignorance.
Yeah....Because believing in "God" isn't ignorant? And retardedness is a word?
Answer this please. We know God is real because the Bible said so. The Bible has to be true because it's God's word. So wouldn't it be true, by your logic, that if I declared myself God right now, and wrote that I was God in some text I produce from my ass, you'd have to believe me?
The Bible is the holy book of one religion, that I'll remind you for a very long time was considered a cult and is still the smallest mainstream religion in terms of believers. That's right. Think about it for five seconds. Christians worship Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is mentioned in older religions as well, but he was a man. A miracle worker, but a man. So to religions like Islam, Christianity clearly worships a false idol, as Jesus was simply a man.
Now let's move on to....no forget it, I'm not typing up a 15 page thesis on how throughout history religion has been used to gain political influence and wealth. You can do your own research on that, believe me there are plenty of facts to back it up.
General religion claims:
God is all knowing
God is all powerful
God is all good
Sadly, the parameters of this imaginary thing conflict each other in a very basic way. One cannot be all powerful and all good. Nor can it be all knowing and all good. Because in order to be "Good" in the sense that God can do no evil, you limit its power. The same applies to knowledge of evil.
You see, if you look back on history up to this point, you'll notice a trend of religion slipping away as science develops. Take medical practice for example. Headaches were once believed to be caused by demons, and holes were drilled into the patients' skulls to release them. Nowadays we have Tylenol, and skull demons have somehow been vanquished.
The gradual shift away from religion isn't because people are becoming more morally corrupt, it's because we're learning more about ourselves. Religion was the answer to many questions that we had no scientific answers for. Now we no longer require it for many things, but a few issues still rely on religion. For example, what happens after we die. This is a question that we may never know, but anything is possible with the advancement of science. You may be skeptical now, but 2000 years ago, do you think anyone thought it realistically possible for human beings to walk on the surface of the moon?
Now before the religious zealots tear this apart and tell me I'm going to Hell (If there is one, I'd hope that's where I'll be. Much more interesting people there I'm sure.) please understand that I'm not against religion. I think it's a wonderful motivator, and there are many things in each religion that I think people should pay attention to in terms of how to treat one another. But when your modern life is dictated by a 2000 year old fairy tale, it's time to wake up.