Every religion does not preach to love your fellow man and only do good things. In fact, only a small amount of religions preach anything close to that. Most religions, such as muslim or mormanism (there are many more examples) preach to only love those who are of the same religion and to seperate your self from or kill all others.
Laughed at that shit and I'm not even stoned! +rep
Yes. The reason that so many other books are left out are because many of them contradict the others that were chosen to be put into the bible. Have you ever heard of the book of Enoch (the great grandfather of Noah)? If you ever get a chance to read it you will probably come up with the theory (as many, many scientists and archeologists have when they have read the book of Enoch) that so called "Jesus" and the angels were extraterrestrial who came down and taught us how to do things. In one part of the book of Enoch (there are other parts that are just as crazy) (Also the book of Enoch is charrished by more than just christianity which the other books in and out of the bible cannot say for themselves) Enoch describes in detail how angels came down to Earth and took him up into the stars with them. He was there for over 300 years. While he was there different angels taught him thins. The subjects were Astronomy, Mathematics, Language, and some other scholarly stuff. He then came back and shared his knowlege with mankind and wrote a book about it. Hmm, funny how that one never made it into the bible. He also describes in depth what it was like when the Angels were leaving from earth and my opinion? He describes a rocket ship taking off. He even describes the sound the contraption makes and the wind that it produces. If I read you the book of Enoch before you heard of the bible, NO DOUBT you would think that aliens played a big role in the beginning of mankind.
Dude, my EXACT thoughts on this. Very nice. If people would just THINK and use reason all of the time we'd have a lot less problems in the world...
you are definatley right about the book of enoch, the idea of ets are in the bible too, talking about the sons of god taking the daughters of men, and gaints who fell, the nephilim, i think the individual names like adonai, jehovah, yahweh were probably just ets that chose a group of people to carry out their plans here on earth. the group that was chosen interbred with these ets, making the breeds feel superior to other people, and they kept the bloodline within family until this day, where they continue to carry out the agenda, and fulfilling their own prophecies. this long conditioning influenced by the ets who influence thier bloodlines, their kings and queens of the earth who used religion and strict laws to control the people. and if you check out zecheria sitchins book the end of days, he talks about how the places like the dome of the rock and other "holy" places where landing places or like bases way back when. and that these areas must be controlled for when "they" come back. its a war of the gods with diferent earth influences battling either for earths enslavement, or for the liberation of earth. it comes down to self responsibilty as the message seems to be from the good side. telling us no one will save us, we need to take the initiative. humans need to stand up. this could be a great movie series once its all over. theres the story that no religion will tell you haha that this is all a big sick game, of manipulation, remember we left eden we fell from grace. we are all connected to consciousness which is us the soul. we live lives to evolve and add wisdom and experience to our souls. were trying to remember, and were being held back. and i just typed way too much this og kush is quite something i hope i didnt kill it, but glad sogfarmer mentioned enoch
without having to use google, can you even tell me what a countries GPI is? not trying to start another fight over religion just asking. it shows that what i am saying is true just by watching this thread. the religious and anti religious fight a lot, now imagine the people on this thread as different countries. give those countries soldiers, nuclear bombs, weapons, and other allies countries(people who fight for no reason just based on what they don't know instead of what they do know).what is your conclusion?
i imagine that people were making the same sort of silly statements a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, ten thousand years ago and on and on. of course people's perceptions are changing, they have always been changing and will continue to until the species stagnates and dies. there is no tipping point in sight, no point at which the unwashed masses will cease to need the comforts of superstition or where they will be able to avoid the unscrupulous who will organize those superstitions into a means of control and profit. the religions of today may die out over the next thousand years or so, but they will undoubtedly be replaced by equally vapid superstitions. there will arise equally corrupt leaders to take advantage of the ignorance of the masses and the entire cycle will continue as it always has.
It would be nice if everyone thought this way!
I'm talking about the pawns. You, me, people like us. Being an atheist doesn't guarantee anything, but believing in any organized religion does. 14% says a lot, and that number rises every year.
Are you telling me you think no progress has been made in the last 10,000 years?
You'd have to get a little more specific about what you mean by "those ultimate answers that plague us all" because I'd argue science actively works on answering some of the biggest, most important questions I personally have.
...and that is the problem.
