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originally posted by: jidnum
a reply to: LABTECH767
Could you be any more hostile?
You claim that God exists and here you are calling people names and belittling them? LOL
Man I would really really hate to believe in your God if it turns me into such a hateful and spiteful person. You know that's something I notice in a lot of religious people. It's pretty common actually. They want to say they love everyone and they are so kind but once you question their faith they act just like you and go the complete opposite direction and start trying to name call and belittle people, counter productive to your belief no?
So any way......your argument is "I exist therefore God has to be real?" very very poor argument.
You want to have a conversation about something? Then maybe you shouldn't come off as an arrogant know it all because at the end of the day you still have yet to show existence of God.
So there you go, you want your proof that cannot be denied?. Lack of proof of existence IS proof of NOT existing.
you could tell me whatever it is you want to tell me but until you show proof of existence......there is no existence. Simple as that. So the ball is in you court. You need to show me tangible without a doubt proof or it is simply just nonsense.
What if we understand the concept of ' belief' without conflating it with ' believing in'?.
originally posted by: Akragon
Avoided this thread like the plague... but
The question... can belief in God be considered a mental illness?
Only when belief comes down to condemning people to hell IF they don't share said belief
originally posted by: LoneBird
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: LoneBird
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: LoneBird
a reply to: sapien82
Without grace from the Holy Father and Holy Son, I would be the most tormented man on earth.
Prayer and belief 100% work.
That says more about you than anything else. An addiction is an addiction however you dress it up.
It is not an addiction, it is a personal relationship.
A personal relationship that becomes stronger when one chooses to overcome the addictions of this world in order to have a closer relationship with the heavenly Father.
Having a personal relationship with a creature who only exists in your mind is called a delusion. Even if it's healthier than narcotics. And by healthier I mean not punishable by law.
I won't drag this along any further after this but it is this type of thinking which allows the devil and dark forces to run rampant over people. It's most likely how they will get their agenda, for a short time.
I believe this world is a test. We came here to be tested.
What we do here, it matters. And if one keeps reaching out to God, God will most certainly reach back.. eventually.
But I was suggesting you are because you set conditions or a variable on belief in God when in fact it is pure A- priori .
originally posted by: Akragon
a reply to: joeyhalf
Im not questioning IF God exists...
when it comes to condemning others due to ones belief...
it is an illness
perhaps not so much mental as spiritual...
IMHO
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: Blaine91555
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. J Kristnamurti.
In a mad world, only the mad are sane. Akira Kurosawa.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. ~KJV~
originally posted by: Blaine91555
Hi Blaine.
The problem with philosophers and artists is they tend to become a religion themselves and often in their own minds. They think thoughts uncountable others before them have thought.
originally posted by: Akragon
a reply to: joeyhalf
Im not questioning IF God exists...when it comes to condemning others due to ones belief...
it is an illness perhaps not so much mental as spiritual...
IMHO
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: gosseyn
The phenomena in question that even you admit to occurs regardless. Other creatures can observe how it goes into other wavelengths that our eyes and brains do not perceive. We use technology to perceive it for ourselves.
originally posted by: vethumanbeing
originally posted by: Akragon
a reply to: joeyhalf
Im not questioning IF God exists...when it comes to condemning others due to ones belief...
it is an illness perhaps not so much mental as spiritual...
IMHO
Murdering others because they have a another name for the same God is insane. Killing others because their belief systems differ is just bad manners.
originally posted by: sapien82
a reply to: Akragon
sectarian violence is ridiculous
its violence from nothing but ignorance
I believe that is what they meant
if GOD is GOD , then there should be no separation between religions , why so many
originally posted by: LABTECH767
a reply to: sapien82
Gog and Magog.
Often - maybe even always - those that claim to do thing's in the name of God are merely serving there own agenda's and are in fact for all there claiming and using this or that God's name as far from the ideals that whatever God that may be are supposed to represent.