“ARE you not thrilled to see a star-studded sky on a cloudless night? Is not the fragrance of colorful flowers delightful? Do you not enjoy listening to the songs of birds and the sound of rustling leaves in a gentle breeze? And how fascinating are powerful whales and other creatures that inhabit the sea! Then there are humans with their faculty of conscience and an amazingly complex brain. How do you account for the existence of all the wonderful things that surround us?

Some believe that all of this is a product of blind chance. But if this is so, why are humans conscious of God? Why would an accidental combination of various chemicals produce creatures with a spiritual need?”

Humans do not have a spiritual need, we just think we do, what about pets do they all congregate and follow some conformity of god? Yet they still live amongst us, in our houses in our beds at night.

"Religion is deeply rooted in human nature and experienced at every level of economic status and educational background." This statement summed up the research that Professor Alister Hardy presented in his book The Spiritual Nature of Man. Recent experiments on the brain have led certain neuroscientists to suggest that humans may have been "hardwired" with the capacity for religion. The book entitled Is God the Only Reality? observes: "The religious quest for meaning . . . is the common experience in every culture and every age since the emergence of humankind."

Okay so your telling me if I take 100 people, people with no knowledge of religion or god on to there own planet where everything is always happy, with no disasters, they will form a belief of a god like figure, of course they wont, if I made there crops burn, or people get diseases then they will believe in god, because they have know way of explaining them, then and only then will people form a belief or rumor of a more powerful person.

My next point is that if god really does love us, then why does he only love some of us? Why did he make us able to think that he doesn’t exist? Why did he make poor starving people over in Africa get AIDS I mean really don’t rich greedy people who kill thousands and rape the world of its resources get it, I mean if he built this world he should be able to control what happens in it to.

And what’s with all the fucking religions, I mean damn there is so many of them, and they all hate each other, even though some of them believe in the same god, more importantly why does he let poor defenseless people die for no reason, why can’t all of the soldiers guns just clog up with dust or something, I mean he hasn’t done anything for us lately, starvation, AIDS, child raping, in fact he is helping spread the AIDS virus, well not him but the Catholics, I mean they wont even let you use a condom when you are just playing around, and when they impose there view on 3rd world country’s they just destroy them more by not helping them grow crops, or get imports happening they just give everybody a bible and run because they want to get back to there couch and watch the Simpson’s, all so they can feel good about helping destroy a country, religion I pity the.

yer that pwned all you good loving noobs

bump

wow... did you copy and paste that all by your self? or did mommy help you hold down the shift key?

I think out of all those happy people religion would be formed because one would ask " why am I here?"

Also the Bible said "He helps those who help themselves."

When God gave us free will that meant we have to take the responsibility.

Alot of bad shit has happened to me but I don't go blaming religion for what has happened to me.

The fact that you had to bump this disgrace 3 times is proof enough that its not worth it.

Learn to use paragraphs jackass.

quote:Okay so your telling me if I take 100 people, people with no knowledge of religion or god on to there own planet where everything is always happy, with no disasters, they will form a belief of a god like figure, of course they wont.

It seems pretty clear that they would form a belief considering every culture on the planet (i'm aware of) has some religious belief. Even in magical tropical beautiful places.

keep the change.

quote:Originally posted by theBishop:

It seems pretty clear that they would form a belief considering every culture on the planet (i'm aware of) has some religious belief. Even in magical tropical beautiful places.

Exactly.

I can't think of a single non-religious culture, anywhere in the world either.

quote:Originally posted by theBishop:

The fact that you had to bump this disgrace 3 times is proof enough that its not worth it.

Learn to use paragraphs jackass.

It seems pretty clear that they would form a belief considering every culture on the planet (i'm aware of) has some religious belief. Even in magical tropical beautiful places.

who are you talking to?

i did use paragraphs, just totse cut them out, i got the word file here if you want it, im not blaming religion, i dont belong to one, i just hate johos, catch yas

quote:Originally posted by Black Territory:

i did use paragraphs, just totse cut them out, i got the word file here if you want it, im not blaming religion, i dont belong to one, i just hate johos, catch yas

So, after saving yourself several hours (actually... decades in your case) of work by ripping off someone elses writting, you're still too lazy to edit some spacing in?

Factoring in your atrocious punctuation and capitolization (or lack of), I have come to the conclusion that maybe you really are black

too long didn't read

A summary for those who can't be arsed to read:

"Why does a good God let bad things happen?"

And since when the fuck did Catholicism speak for God? That is bullshit. God speaks for himself. He doesn't need weak humans to do it for him. Especially not weak humans who spreak STDs.

quote:Originally posted by dearestnight_falcon:

So, after saving yourself several hours (actually... decades in your case) of work by ripping off someone elses writting, you're still too lazy to edit some spacing in?

Factoring in your atrocious punctuation and capitolization (or lack of), I have come to the conclusion that maybe you really are black



*cough* You spelled capitalization* wrong. You also spelled writing* wrong. You could be black. You could be white. You could be yellow. Or albino. Or tan. Or slightly orange. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Whats more, you can both solve your little problem in the same way. Learn word processing.