maybe there is a god
(and if it soothes you (gives you comfort) to believe, then by all means believe)
but
the ideas of god , do not make sense.
if god was perfect, why would it create the universe? (perfect = lacking nothing)
if god wasnt perfect (hey i cant see, ok making light, hey im lonely, ok making people)
doesnt work either, so this guys just always existed and finally got lonely and made us? (why didnt it go insane first?) (and it would probably be living among us,incognito)
something created this guy?
doesnt work either, cause then that would be the true god and then what made it?
god being everything, well, then the term is meaningless.
what is god anyway?
originally it meant some person with extrapowers.
would we worship that today?
would we think some invisible guy in the sky controlled lightning and thunder? (some speculate that these were simply humans (kings) whom´s reverance grew into worship (and they becoming more and more divine with each telling of their story)
do you need a parent in the sky?
cause, if ya thank god for the good shit, whom to blame for the bad shit?
the devil? do you need an eternal invisible enemy?
does it seem likely or reasonable to you that these things exist?
god cant have a plan either for everything, or you automatically lose Free will.
and then this bumbling around by the human race seems much more plausible and more what it is, monkeys losing their hair and ignorance. making havok and chaos along the way, due only to their stupidity.
would any divine being contact apes? (the prime directive in startrek comes to mind, would god be any less foolish?)
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gods lil fishtank or god got lonely and created pets
thats what religion makes us.
doesnt make sense.
and christianity?
well you just have to read christianity to debunk it.
it was obviously created originally by jewish priests in an effort to control the people. ("go over to the next country and kill all the men and take all their stuff (including women and children as slaves) god commands this")
man has free will, "now heed these rules or be stoned to death" (though the roman empire later changed this to "heed these rules, or be tortured to death, its for your own benefit, if we dont do it, you will burn forever, well, you will unless you relent, but thats why we are torturing you
")
well, like i said, you just have to read the bible to start disbelieving in it. or listen to any of the rhetoric of the priests.
"ok, now you kids all been bad, real bad, so now i gotta sacrifice my only son (you are just creations, him i had with one of you,, or him is me, maybe, something like that)
well, anyway, now you gotta kill him for me and then everything will be allright, you just have to confess your sins, why? i dont know, i just make the rules, killing is bad, but to make up for all your killing, now you have to kill my son, dont worry ,he´s really nice and will probably forgive you for it
"
hehhee... though, to be fair, jesus probably existed, one can never imagine the roman empire coming up with the concept of forgiveness and love and compassion for all.
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but he probably was just a nice guy , a thinker a philosopher, maybe buddha reincarnated (another thinker and philosopher that got turned into religion and god (well sorta))
jesus actually believed in reincarnation according to some texts and his spiel was certainly very similar to buddhism.
but the plain fact is, if someone wants you to convert to their religion.
either they are
reaching into your pocket or trying to control you.
or
someone is reaching into their pocket, controlling them and they are trying to get more people to do the same , so they wont look as foolish (hey look, plenty of people do this, so its allright)
in original christinanity, men and women, were equal, anyone preached whom the spirit took
and the universe was the temple.
even, if jesus and these guys existed, should we worship them? no, we should take the best of their thoughts and move on and not make them any greater in our minds than plato or other thinkers.
the religions have many great thoughts and wisdoms.
they were inspired by great people, just unfortunetly picked up with people of the sins (greed, pride and so on)
and made into a cashcow.
if you are interested, you should read all the religions and draw the best from each and discard the rest.
make your own religion and be its own high priest.
all the religions have their merits and good points (or no one would join..)
but in the end, all they do is divide humans and create hell on earth.