Religon for the weak minded?Follow

religion for the weak minded?

hardly. there are thing that happen that cannot be explained. people have fallen out of airplanes during ww2 and hit solid ground and lived. poltergiest, the movie was based on a true story. the scientiest that worked with the real woman the story was based on could prove the presence of "something", but could not define what that somethign was, or weather it was sentient.

the Bible itself is a collection of stroies for various people written in differant times that all speak of a single man, and a group of people who followed him around. massive work of fiction prepetuated by many differant people from various places that all follow a timeline? with no variations of the name of this person or his folowers?
the Bibile speaks of a real person. weather or not you believe the stories as a fact, or misinterpted events is unprovable. what is provable is the names, dates, and places mentioned in this collection of stories.

cave drawings from prehistoric times relate to "gods" of sorts from before man even had a language.

the preponderance of evidence, even though there is no way to actually prove the existance of this person without an actual body, would lead the most scientific amoung you to atleast be unable to rule out the possibility of God as atleast a viable theory.
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that said, lets disscuss the falicy of man. all men and women on the planet.

we all try to define god in our own immage. that is to say. we try to define perfection nn our own immage. if your skinn is a differnant color than mine, you are not as good as i am. if you think some way other than what i think, your thought process is wrong. if you do not worship whatever the way i worship whatever, you are worshiping the worng way.

if you dont have a capitolist style government based on democracy, you are evil and oppressive.

if you think Jesus Christ was the embodiemnt of God, and not just a prophet, like Mohammad, you are an infidel and need to die.

we all do it. and within that thought process, we disreguard anything that points to the contrary of our perfection. the more egotistical you are, the more likely you are going to believe there is not, nor ever was anything superrior to yourself. athiest. dictator. tyrant. Hitler. Mousilini.

we ALL follow this path to some degree or another. ALL of us. you see a homeless person on the street, you dissmiss him as lesser than yourself with comments like "he could have a job if he wanted one", or "he put himself there, it is his fault" without even knowing anything about his particular situation.

you see a black teen sititng on a bus bench in front of a store, you think "he is a criminal", when you know nothign about him.

you laugh at jokes about disabeled or mentally ill people because it makes you feel good. at an inner level, that person demonstraits your superiority. he justifies you. and the more you belittle him, the higher you raise yourself above him.

the ultimate arrogance of this mindset is denying the possibility of God himself. to declair there is nothing above yourself.

your professor, calling people "weak minded" for believeing in something higher than themselves is a perfect example of "creating god in your own immage".

it is not the "weak minded" religious people who need the most help here, God or no God, it is your professor for being so shortsighted and limited as to think he is all there is.

i pity athiest.

i also condem any academic instructor who usses his position to steer students down a narrow, limited thought process. "creating god in our own immage" is exactly why blacks didnt used to be able to eat with white peoople. why "christians" discriminate against gays.

WHY MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of HUMAN BEINGS have been BUTCHERD throughout history.

your professor is a prime example of the ignorace and arrogance that limits our species form evolving ot a higher mind set.

i am not saying every one should believe in God, but i am saying no one should rule out anything, or raise themselves above anyone else. this is the very ignorance and arrogance that has led to so much pain and suffering through out history, and even today inthe middle east. you close your mind to possiblilities, you put blinders on and limit your potential.

your professor is limmiting YOUR potential with his ARROGANCE

that was actually a good post IMO. If one chooses to calculate the "bad hand-writing" of the post. ..or maybe it's just this bong hit talking..

This is why it's important to research before you comment on a topic.

1. In Christianity, God gives you a choice, hence you being able to choose not to believe in Him. Anyone with basic knowledge of religion would know that.

2. That only proves you know nothing about my religion, and make Aethist look foolish in general. Why do you guys like to comment on stuff you know nothing about?

Another ridiculous statement made by someone that barely knows anything about the Christian/Catholic religion.

1. The Holy Bible is the "guide" to how you should worship God, not priest. Priest are religious leaders, and like every other leader they can be wrong, heck..they can be hypocrits(and it's easy to spot the hypocrits).

Religion is for whoever chooses to partake in it.

Now, here's a good one...

1. I never said that the Bible wasn't the literal words of God(it's not, really..The Commandments..maybe, but "And Jesus wept" is not what God said).

2. Religion IS for anyone that wants to partake/join in, sinners, converters WHATEVER. Are you saying that only a chosen few are allowed to join in religion?

3. Most(if not all) the people in the Bible performed the functions of a priest, however, I never said they didn't...What does that have to do with anything?

4. While you may have served in a church for 4 years, that means nothing, obviously your service was in vain(if you were in fact, attempting to learn anything). I would think that you would have learned to capitalize the word "God"..

5. I never questioned you knowledge of religion.

6. In the end, it is you, not me, spouting their lack of understanding of religion.

7. My signature IS in fact, a joke. Congratulations on being the first to note that.

8. I win.

I don't see where that has much to do with the topic at hand. Sure, it's a one-in-a-million chance of surviving a fall like that without injury (of course, Terry Pratchett says that a one-in-a-million chance will happen 99% of the time).

I just don't see the tie-in to religion. Every random inexplicable occurrence does not necessarily point to the existence of God.

Look, when something happens that defies logic and scientific reason, you HAVE to give God the credit, because there is not other excuse.

I thought it was kinda funny how in class, someone on the con-religion side of the debate stated "common, a being create the whole universe? that's kind of hard to believe"

I was thinking "no matter how you look at it something had to come from nothingness, whether it be evolution or creationism" isn't that hard to believe? however, we know this is a fact, to me it's easier to believe one being started it all rather to believe many beings came into existence simultaniously.

If you are the only thing in existence, whatever you can dream up becomes reality because nothing exists, essentially you control what exists and what doesn't.(hard to explain)

that's just how i feel.

Edited, Tue Feb 15 00:52:24 2005 by melbolt