Sorry to interrupt all this hugging and hay yaows.
But does God exist?
If he does is he represented by those sweaty persons of Mediterranean Appearance chopping peoples heads off in Syria and Iraq?
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But does God exist?
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Depends who you ask, Pav said yes and he knows its Jesus, Cynic says yes, and he says its a giant organism that we live inside akin to microbes that live in us, tink agrees with both pav and cynic, calliope says no but he likes people that believe in pav's brand, sir rumpole says he doesn't know but thinks one does but its not the type the others believe in,
Sorry to interrupt all this hugging and hay yaows.
But does God exist?
If he does is he represented by those sweaty persons of Mediterranean Appearance chopping peoples heads off in Syria and Iraq?
gg
As to whether a God exists at all, no one knows for sure.
Ah, good to see we are all happy, have a lovely day.
Enjoy
My own offering....
May God bless you all, peace and happiness for this very special new day.
First separate the possibility of a God existing from religion. Religion is a human interpretation of what a God is, does and wants. There is no evidence that any religion's interpretations of a higher Being's characteristics are accurate. The fact that religions differ so greatly in their descriptions of a God indicate that if one religion is correct, the others must be wrong, or they could all be wrong. Religion is therefore based on an individuals personal choice of what type of God appeals to them.
I agree with your general sentiment. But I think saying an "individuals personal choice" misses the fact that probably 99% of those who claim to follow a religion follow that in which they are brought up in. An accident of birth rather than a reasoned decision in almost every case. The fact that even people who make a reasoned decision tend to end up with the religion of their birth indicates how strong the indoctrination, for use of a better word, at an early age is.
I agree with your general sentiment. But I think saying an "individuals personal choice" misses the fact that probably 99% of those who claim to follow a religion follow that in which they are brought up in. An accident of birth rather than a reasoned decision in almost every case. The fact that even people who make a reasoned decision tend to end up with the religion of their birth indicates how strong the indoctrination, for use of a better word, at an early age is.
Many of the parents I've known throughout the years do their utmost to give their children the best possible start in life.
Having experienced their religion (whatever that religion might be) as beneficial, they naturally want to pass those benefits on to their children.
Yeah, what's a few threats of hell fire, a sexuality based disowning or an honour killing among family, It's all for the best right.
Sorry to interrupt all this hugging and hay yaows.
But does God exist?
If he does is he represented by those sweaty persons of Mediterranean Appearance chopping peoples heads off in Syria and Iraq?
gg
A woman who smashed into and ran over a motorcyclist in Fort Wayne, Indiana, told police that she had let God drive her car when she ran down 47-year-old Anthony Oliveri, leaving him with serious injuries ”” but “ecstatic to be alive.”
Prionda Hill, 25, also rammed the back of a Ford pickup truck before running her 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix off the road onto a median next to a Rally’s burger restaurant, according to a police report.
The bizarre accident took place around 9:45 pm on July 11. Hill appeared in court last Thursday where she was charged with failing to stop after an accident, criminal recklessness and two counts of criminal mischief.
According to police, when they found Hill at the Rally’s fast food joint, she told them that she was driving along normally on Jefferson Boulevard near Jackson Street in Fort Wayne, when “out of nowhere God told her that He would take it from here and she let go of the wheel and let Him take it.”
As soon as she let go of the steering wheel, her Pontiac slammed into the back of a 2001 Harley-Davidson motorcycle ridden by Oliveri, a lifelong motorcycling enthusiast who once built a Kawasaki motorcycle from scratch in his mom’s garage.
Is that truly your understanding of the word "beneficial"?
Tankyou VC. I'll accept that as your admission to misconstruence of my use of the word "beneficial".Just some of the nasty side effects of the "Beneficial" religious dogma parents may preach,
I'm never quite sure whether I envy or admire people that are able to believe in accidental causation coupled with the perception that our consciousness/life only spans one conception and death and is thereafter extinguished for all eternity.
I could think of no philosophy/belief more liberating and would happily have embraced it if it were not for my deep convictions to the contrary.
No deed could truly be deemed good or evil because everything came about accidentally and hence is of no importance.
Every able bodied person could happily stop reproducing and euthenase themselves to spare future generations from life's rollercoaster ride of pleasure and suffering.
Pure bliss.
Think about it!
Are we sure that such an idealistic notion of existence being purely accidental is a truly logical, reasonable and safe philosophy to pursue!
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Same to you Tink, and may your God go with you ...
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