we're all entitled to our opinions :| so you don't believe in god? good for you. your faith is Islam? good for you. You're Jewish? good for you. You like xmas and teh baby J? good for you. now stop being childish and get along.
this is why I hate discussions about religion. you can't prove a god exists and you can't prove a god doesn't exist because the only proof you have is multi-thousand years old (for both sides). either way religion on a massive scale is fail. Crusades, WW2 Genocide, and 9/11 are all examples of how religion on a massive scale is not good.
Based on religion, but that is not all of it. It isn't religion on a massive scale, it's aggression on a massive scale in which the driving force is religious belief. Sure, terrorists may say "Allah Ahmad" before they kill themselves, but only because 80-90% of Muslims are very devoted and believe every word of the Qur'an. All they are saying is Praise the Lord. Any believer, mainly Christians say the same thing. And I realize I made a generalization by saying terrorists and Muslim in the same sentence. Yes, most terrorists are of middle-eastern descent, but there are homegrown terrorists as well. People who don't agree with their government or the laws and conform to anarchy. We've all heard of it, it just doesn't compare to terrorism when it comes to seriousness.
Tom_4th_account (02-20-2008)
perhaps, but it is my personal belief that religion on a large scale is detrimental to the world. It causes strife between countries and sometimes neighbors. (just look at the middle east....WW2's lines screwed that up as well, but they were fighting long before that). I don't mean religion is bad, it's the driving force behind many good and helpful organizations, governments, and people. But what do you think controlled the world during the middle ages? Religion. Pope manipulated governments to do what they wanted else risk the wrath of the Pope and have your country excommunicated. :| dumb. Personally, I'm not very pious. I detest going to church because of lack of attention span and because I believe that helping others is more helpful to the community and the world than sitting in church for hours on end (<-- generalizing time spent in church) praying to a being who may or may not listen to your prayers. But that's just me. :|
EDIT: grammar change. thanks Junior
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Mexiforce (02-20-2008),Tom_4th_account (02-21-2008)
Very well said.
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2.5 -> Proof? ^^ I win!
your proof? I only see a statement and nothing to back it up. Prove god doesn't exist then. There really is no recent proof that he exists or not...just documents from thousands of years ago. I'm not debating whether God exists, I believe he exists somewhere, therefore he does. As long as one person believes in a God, he/she/it exists. You might not follow that faith, but the god does exist if someone believes. That might sound childish, but that's how religion is portrayed in my mind.
Since we are straying to personal philosophies, I am a non-denominational Christian but I most closely relate myself to Deism, more along the Constructive branch. I believe that a god, in my case God, exists but like a clock maker, created the world, universe, etc, and now that God has made it to what He wants it to be, has left it to run on it's own. Perhaps interfering every once in a while for a "tune up". I however, am not a true deist because I don't believe in everything they do. ("Rejection of all religions based on books that claim to contain the revealed word of God." -- not too keen on that one). I like reason and logic, perhaps that's why I most closely relate myself to them.
I don't see whats wrong with just living life. I don't care where i came from, i'm just here and thats that. when i die, im dead. Nothing fancy. Just sleeping for eternity and never waking up.
More like never be able to think and rot for ever in the ground after you die from excruciating pain lol.
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