Religion is like a penis.
It's fine to have one.
It's fine to be proud of it.
But please don't whip it out in public and start waving it around,
And PLEASE don't try to shove it down my children's throats.
First of all, how do you know God doesn't do anything to help natural disasters etc? For all you know they could have been much much worse without his intervention.
It's ok not to understand. There is so so much none of us understand. I definitely don't believe God punishes. We decide. do I...
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You misunderstand. We are the creators with our free will.
That's why we are the only ones who can fix it.
How am I evading the problem? WE DID IT
If you are saying you don't want your free will, that if there is a god you want him to control you, then ok, I can understand that, it's not like we've made much of a success out of all this is it?
And you don't think that if we all worked together for the good of everyone we could eradicate...
A pretty long post and to be honest I'm pretty fed up with the whole thread anyhow.
We wanted free will, we didn't want a god looking over our shoulder cos that that would have lessened the true purpose. We can change it, if the human race develops in consciousness then there will be an end to...
Cows and sheep don't pass MENSA entry but that was back in the days I cared about that sort of thing.
I like science because one day I believe it will prove the existence of most things you deny.
OK, the short reply.
We created evil deeds, thoughts etc. There is no such thing as evil per se. It's all another part of the experience called life.
We've touched on this before, you can't have light without dark. Bit like looking at a lit candle in the sun.
The scientific community just hates one of their own ever coming out with stuff like this.
Come on, do you really walk around on this wonderful planet and witness the billions of miracles going on around you and not question that can't all be by accident.
I went to Herstmonceux this year and...
Geez, again missing the point.
What is it about scientists that they can pull apart what they believe to be holes in viewpoints that disagree with their own yet ignore their own massive holes.
Sir Fred Hoyle, an astrophysicist, compared the random emergence of the simplest cell to the likelihood that "a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein."
He's not liked very much in some communities.