basilisk888

>.< ok another question then:

-do you think "God" is real.
-where do you think he is?
and something to think about... Why does "it" (any religion) not help what it has created why does "it" not save more people who "it" created...

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fayt lingod

if i had a dollar for every one of these "does God exist" or "is religion real" threads i would be the richest man alive.

In my oppinion God HAS to exist. look around at the way the world works.
Science dictates that order can never be gained, it can only be maintained, but ussually lost. this is the law of entropy. ALL scientific creations point to the world being born of infinite chaos, and such we cannot have the order that we observe today.
The order present in the universe ALSO could not have simply "existed" because if u leave an ecosystem that you have wrecked (but not destroyed) it will eventually recover the same amount of order that it had before.

This, without the inborn yearning for God that all humans have, is proof in and of itself.

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There is a God if you want to believe in him. Religions are all over the world, it's almost a way of living now. Some do believe, some don't, but really religion lies within yourself.

Nobody can "prove" that God is among us and watching over us. That's why they call it "believing", there IS no proof. Old prophets told us that God gave us signs, in all kinds of religion (Muslims, Christians, Buddists and ancient religions). It seems that they are all pointing to one "God", but he expresses himself in different ways.

Nobody knows the truth really, that's why people just believe what they think is "true". It's just another individual thing. As long as there is no real proof of God, people will just randomly believe or not believe. I mean Jesus, Mohammed and other prophets came by... They told us he IS there.

I do believe in God, and I don't doubt it by a bit. But that's just me ^_^.

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Descended From Darkness

Actually Alestier has it right. It is in a sense an ego booster. It gives you closure from the things you fear and or hate the most. What's wrong with that?

And Islam has just as many nutters running around trying to ruin it for everyone else just as much Christianity does.

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basilisk888

its not wrong or anything but it is just anoying how people are always haveing to talk about it and the people who are out there on the streets yelling away at people... (no offence to the people who do that kind of thing) but people can be anoying at times... I'm not trying to say that it is not good (to a point) but it has its downs also... There is some peeple who take these things to far... But I gues its not for me to say who is good and who is crazy but I just think there are crazy and insane religon people out there...

"The end of the world will happen. How is up to the people."

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psychical

OK. Let's assume for the sake of the argument that faith, simply put, is "something that you believe in." We believe that the earth revolves around the sun. That's something we believe in, and scientifically it has been proven to be true. Some of us may believe that Obama would be chosen as the Democratic candidate, others still Hillary. That's faith, in yet another sense. Or it could be subjective. I for one strongly believe that New Orleans is a beautiful city, pre- and post-Katrina.

But religious faith, Descended from Darkness, is something similar to faith in the "ordinary" sense, but something different entirely. Allow me to demonstrate with a funny example:

Let's assume you're for Hillary. You live in a neighborhood in which a majority zealously supports Obama, even to the point of violence. Now, due to some mistaken notion that's gotten into their heads, they think that the more Dems they could rally to their side by any means necessary, the sooner Obama gets the candidacy. Or they could just off the Hillary people. So after finding out you're for Hill, a torch-bearing mob armed to the teeth marches into your home one night, and they drag you out.

They ask you: "Are you for Hill?"

Of course, you know that to say "yes" would mean suicide by mob-lynching, and probably even worse before that.

So you say "No, I'm not."

"Liar," one of them says. "I know you are, but you could change your mind and join us. If you do, we'll let you live." So you do.

So there. Things like those aren't what people would normally die for. (No offense to those from N'awlins, but I'd change my mind if forced to at gunpoint... Désolé, mes amis!) But as for religion, well, I could argue from history -- something the good people here at A.O. have failed to do so far.

Even good ol' Wikipedia would attest to the fact that Christians of all stripes since the beginning of Christianity have been persecuted to the point of death (and at times, extermination of entire communities) -- even to this day. Sure, it began as an apparent offshoot of Judaism, yet if it were just something renegade Jews could believe in to make themselves feel better, then Peter, James, John and Co. would've given it up after having been roughed up badly. But they didn't. Christians were gutted like fish, burned alive, and fed to lions in order to keep this new "cult" from spreading like the plague, yet they simply refused to call it quits with their newfound faith.

So tell me, Descended from Darkness...

If all it was was something that made them feel better, something that simply made them feel proud and high n' mighty, then why didn't they recant? Why didn't they choose the easy way out and revert to paganism?

I'll wait for your response.

Oh, and fayt lingod, I agree with ya there.

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psychical

Oh, and protip to the Muslims amongst us: it'd do you good to look into the works of Averroes. That guy simply rocks, IMO

Averroes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Because according to the Bible bangers Paganism came from the devil and it goes against the Bible. I for one don't believe in the Bible I'm a bit of deist. People nowadays use Christianity inflate their egos..usually. But I do know a couple pagans. They are some of my best close friends.

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psychical

I'm a theist, so it's good to know that we now have some common ground, you and I. Let's be good friends, shall we?

I can't help but agree with you there that SOME (but not ALL) Christians use their faith to big up themselves (e.g. politicians, televangelists, etc.). That's actually un-Christianly, if you look at what Christianity actually stands for.

Anyways, back to the subject of believing. Let's put religious texts such as the Quran and the Bible aside for now; we might get back to those later, should the need arise. So you believe in God (or a god, or gods), and your friends are pagans. Tell me, my friend, why do they believe in what they believe in? Just curious

Where I come from, though (and I'm not Arab, by the way), even non-Arabs and non-Muslims hold him in high esteem. Even some serious Christian thinkers use his arguments to blast away at atheists. And they usually win, as a result. OUCH.

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psychical

Where I come from, though (and I'm not Arab, by the way), even non-Arabs and non-Muslims hold him in high esteem. Even some serious Christian thinkers use his arguments to blast away at atheists. And they usually win, as a result. OUCH.



Oh shi- I was posting in rapidfire succession. Hassun, anyone... Could you please come by and remove this for me? Sorry and thanks!

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