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Whatever your belief it shouldn't really matter that someone you are most likely never going to meet thinks something different.
Originally posted by inthemass
I hate these religous threads. If you don't believe in a creator, fine. If you do, fine.
Where's the beef?
Starting a thread about religion = pointless arguements.
Agree to disagree, we all share one thing. That thing is death. In the end we will know the truth, may it be heaven or hell or simple nothingness.
Originally posted by Partygirl
God works in your Heart to engender faith.
Faith comes from the heart, not the head.
Trying to judge faith with the mind only (i.e., no heart) is like going to a movie and closing your eyes or stopping your ears: You will get the sights but not the sounds, or the sounds but not the sights. True faith takes root in the heart and mind, just like a movie needs both sound and visuals. This is the error of most athiests, who approach the issue solely from the head.
Originally posted by inthemass
reply to inthemass
JaxCavelera : ....My post aimed to justify topics like this and point out the multitude of benefits that are to be had from such discussions.
inthemass : A good point yet, flawed. If a respectable conversation was to take place then im sure it would be a great discussion with benefits. What was the title of this this thread?
Just another disrespectful thread. Maybe reworded, we could benefit.
Originally posted by TheButcher23
Religion in my opinion is everything we hate individually rolled up into a nice package and sold to the masses.
1) It is a control based system
2) It is a pyramid system
3) The follower have no real access to the real information
4) The follower do as they are told without questioning the end result for fear of isolation
5) The leader of each religion is unfathomably wealthy and unattainable
6) The crimes that happen within these organizations are tolerated far more that that of your neighbor (pedophiles for example)
7) The Original god in the OLD testament (not the new 2.0 version in the NEW testament) is akin to many a dictator who murders, beats, and destroys with no qualm.
8) This is my favorite - when debating with the religious they have no REAL argument for the proof of god. In fact NOT 1 has ever proved it.....EVER!!
Originally posted by TheButcher23
I am at a loss as too why people follow religion.
Using ATS as my ground that you may all be familiar with I am mind boggled over the Religion fad!!
People on ATS always, ALWAYS ask for PROOF. Just check out any 9/11 thread and the word PROOF is rampant and wild. LOOK at any UFO thread and video evidence and pics are paramount in order to show PROOF.
PROOF, PROOF, PROOF - But not in religion!!
Good ATS people are blindly accepting the word of people who they do not even know. Stories that have been changed to suit the present day people's perspective. But YET they still believe in god!!
Why is logic and sensibility lost for this one subject when it is always applied or at least attempted in all others. We did not except that Light was 186,000 miles per second in speed related terms. We set out to prove it by measuring it.
But with god, NO PROOF is offered yet people fall over themselves to accepts it and actually argue that its true and no proof is needed.
WTF?