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So, all you're saying is that god is the only thing you're life is about. Understandably I am a christian, yet I don't beleive that we as christian should spend our entire lives worshipping god, and if god didn't want us to sin, then he would not have given us the ability of free will. I do beleive there is a god, I do not beleive that the bible is the be all and end all of christianity and that most of the bible is exaggerated stories from thousands of years ago passed down through word of mouth and bound together to make a book. That is my oppinion on it.
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@ Kit: Worship is part of Religion itself and to be a Christian you do not have to be religious, as weird as that sounds. Believing in god is based on faith, religion is using the faith to improve it. Can't really explain it that well......
I agree with Pulse about worship. You don't have to worship God 24/7. I believe that you can sing songs and stuff to God but you also worship him by the way you live your life.
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@ Kit: Worship is part of Religion itself and to be a Christian you do not have to be religious, as weird as that sounds. Believing in god is based on faith, religion is using the faith to improve it. Can't really explain it that well......
Christianity is not religion, it's relationship. Religion is our way of getting to a god. (When I say "our," I mean humans.)
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Talking in terms of the afterlife, I know that when a human dies, like the rest of matter, he/she breaks down into other matter for other usages. Basically, humans rot after they die.
What do you think of life if you dont think there is a God?
What do you think of life, since you believe in a God? I guess your the type of person who wouldn't be able to make it through life day in and day out; knowing it was all for nothing, right? Some may argue that was the basis on the creation of religion.
Well, if you do not believe in God, the purpose of your life would be what you make it out to be, I would think.
Ya I agree. But there are people who can't comprehend not existing, when I was younger I used to have trouble thinking about this. Now I've just learned to accept it.
Well, if you believe in God I have heard a lot of religious people say that they live a good life because they want a good afterlife or whatever right? Well, for atheists or at least those I have talked to and myself, we live a good life BECAUSE we do not believe in an after life. If there is no life after death we must make the most of the time we have.
I enjoy being atheist because i dont like the idea of possibly pledging my life to someone who hasnt been proven or unproven. Like Pat said, i (try to) make the most out of the life i have now, whereas some extreme believers of a deity may give their life away, only to find nothing when the die. The obvious come back is, well if you dont spend your life looking for an afterlife, then you wont be rewarded with one. My comeback would be, well the afterlife might be a test for an after-afterlife, which could easily create a cyclic pointlessness. My second comeback would be "Get off my doorstep you conversia-tards"
(Note: That wasnt me calling all Christians conversia-tards, it was me making reference to the Jehovas Witnesses that came to my door, telling me i was immoral for being atheist)
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it was me making reference to the Jehovas Witnesses that came to my door, telling me i was immoral for being atheist)
i enjoy the same pleasure of their pestering
i'v been told a couple of times by many 'God-believers' that i wont be able to enjoy the paradise that god has in store for me after i die as i dont believe in him-this happens after i tell them im atheist
like ringlets said im not going to waste my life worshiping or looking up to someone (God) who hasnt in the slightest 0.001% been proven to exist.....im sorry but any cruel brain box could have made up the bible or Qu-ran thinking it'd be funny for people to worship 'the word of god' when the whole time it was fake.
im sorry if i did offend anyone...which is probably unlikely
im sorry but any cruel brain box could have made up the bible or Qu-ran
Exactly, In my opinion ye olde humans needed a reason for living or else they would not be able to go on. The kings and queens of England certainly need these beliefs because without them they had no reason for the throne (it was divine choice or whatever) so I believe that it was either a clever leader or merely rumour spread by the masses and by 'prophets'.
Of course this means that to me that Jesus was probably just very intelligent and/or really believed what he was saying because of his upbringing. I believe my Religion + Philos. teacher showed us a clip about how around the time of Jesus' birth all the things written in the Bible could be explained by pure coincidence. If you do not believe that the coinicidence could have occured because it is coincindental than that is just bull. The point of coincidence is that it could have happened only it is not likely, hence it only happening once in recorded human history.
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im sorry but any cruel brain box could have made up the bible or Qu-ran thinking it'd be funny for people to worship 'the word of god' when the whole time it was fake.
Like Pat, just what i think, however it could be more likely that someone made it up, knowing they could control the masses at the thought that someone was judging them on their savage acts. Of course there was a person named Jesus who millions of people now worship, but whether or not he was the son of a divine being is a different matter. He could simply be someone who was let in on the "control scam" and (as the Family Guy movie put brilliantly) used subtle mind tricks to "scam them" moar.
Again, im not offending anyone here purposefully, these are just my opinions and reasons towards not supporting god. Other reasons include "deh well if God exists why does he allow good people to die" and "surely God would've smote the gays"
To non-God believers....
