What Do You Believe? (Religious)

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I was raised to make my own opinion about the world. My parents never talked about religion or anything about what they stood for. Later i found out they where both atheists, or rather on the edge of agnostic.

In my mind its impossible to understand just HOW people can keep to religions. It just contradicts with science and what we have been building towards all these years as the human race: progress. I do understand how religions came about, by applying an answer to why the sun came up each day to provide life. The wonder of nature. Now we know better.

However, im not saying that there is not god, and im not saying there is. However, im mostly sure that he is just a brain ghost among people who needs comfort. All im saying is that strict religions in general and the bibel and other holy books that some parts of our population follow makes me sick inside. The world do not need religion anymore, it just keeps creating conflicts.

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If someone proved the existence of God I would listen, and I like people to try and convert me, it makes me think and sometimes even cement my non-faith further.

Just something to think about
-there a huge amounts of religions, most either believe in reincarnation, or some for of heaven and hell, yes?
-They can't all be right, they contradict each other
-If Reincarnation is right, you could waste a good life (human) on being religious, when you could be an even better person, without wasting time with religion
-If a heaven/hell system exists, there is a very small chance you picked the right religion, so either God will be forgiving enough to let you in (so maybe he would if you were Atheist) or refuse you
-So you are more likely to waste your life if you are religion

 

Good one. Assuming for a moment Heaven and God were real... I think he'd be far more likely to open the gates to the man who said "God may exist, he may not. I don't particularly care, I'll just be a good person" than he would to the man who chose the wrong religion and said "My religion is the correct religion, my way of thinking is the correct way, if you do not believe what I believe, you are destined to burn in Hell".

 

I just get pissed when they state fairytale as fact. "Yes, Noah, an elderly man, built an ark for millions of species (including dinosaurs) that didn't kill each other and survived a flood."

 

...and then distributed them across the globe in mini arks.

 

When I wake up in the morning and see the sunrise, I just can't believe that graphics that good were made by any less than an awesome programmer. I find happiness in my religion (christianity). I don't need anyone else to. The problem is that everybody acts like their religion (or lack of) is better than anyone else's.

 

Uh nobody said that except you.

 

Alright then, he teleported them across the globe. You said the Earth's crusts were positioned differently, that doesn't make the land mass any smaller.

 

The animals migrated since the crust was all together, thus no oceans separating land...

I don't see why you're having so much trouble comprehending that idea.

 

Even though I am religious, I can't help but notice: Pangea was millions of years ago. The Bible only covers 7000 years, and thus the story of Noah occurs within that time period. How could those inter-connect?

 

Shows how much attention I pay in church, I guess.

I feel like a kind of middle man. I believe what science finds as true (or theoretically true), but I'm still religious. I know that's completely contradictory. I dunno how it works in my head. Mostly I just try to keep my religion to myself and allow others to believe what they will. Works for me. And no, suicide bombing is not part of the doctrine.

 

That's not true, only some radical forms of Christianity believe that, most of us know otherwise.

 

But the radical ones are more fun to argue with since they end up backing themselves into a corner of imagination and end up saying "god works in mysterious ways" when they can't explain it.

 

Yeah I mean listen I can understand how it might be hard for someone to believe the story of Noah. But once you get past that story, whether you believe it or not, and think about a pair of animals from every genus reproducing and their generations migrating and adapting to the habitat they have chosen to live in, you could see how we would get the animals we have today.

 

Or you can just stop believing in a 2000 year old book.