What Religion are you?

[Dezilagel]

Jedi.


:p

[chadz]

SillySunday question (somewhat serious, actually, because I was just thinking about this for some hours)

If there were a god, would he wonder if there is someone above him - his own god?
If he does, that's hardly omnipotent.
If he doesn't, he's atheist.

If I were religious, that thought would worry me.

[okiN]

If there were a god, would he wonder if there is someone above him - his own god?

Certainly not if this god was exactly as described in Abrahamic religious texts, or even ancient Greek ones etc. Doubt doesn't fit in with perfection.

If he does, that's hardly omnipotent.
If he doesn't, he's atheist.

Sorry, no. Not believing in a higher power than yourself doesn't make you an atheist if you're already the highest power in all of existence, with unlimited and perfect knowledge about everything. You're being very silly.

If I were religious, that thought would worry me.

It seems to me you lack understanding of the psychology of religion.

[Devilize]

SillySunday question (somewhat serious, actually, because I was just thinking about this for some hours)

If there were a god, would he wonder if there is someone above him - his own god?
If he does, that's hardly omnipotent.
If he doesn't, he's atheist.

If I were religious, that thought would worry me.

Your thinking is stuck in the box, you need to think outside of it. God wouldn't "wonder", think, or even know. These very terms are created by humans to help define our understanding. God is beyond these worldly definitions as he created knowledge himself. We as humans will never truly be able to define God as God is because we are bound by the laws that God created to govern our universe, laws like gravity.

Just as 2 dimensions can never truly interact with 3 dimensions, the painting with the painter, nor will we every truly interact with god, the created with the creator.

Just an FYI, I have no denomination but I am not atheist. I was raised Methodist, which in my eyes now is a truly fucked up belief through Christianity. However, I have read the Bible front to back and found it rewarding and uplifting, yet my interpretation of it was my own and no one else. Which lies the foundation for my lack of a denomination.

In short, I simply wanted to share my definition of god which is simply - without limitations. I like to think of him not in terms of a hierarchy but more of a different plain of existence from our own.

[HarunYahya]

Someone prove me that god exists. You cant because he doesnt! hahahaa..HAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA..this is going to be interesting

check my sig ;)

[ManOfWar]

In the words of Steven Hawking and I quote

I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

[Fluffy_Muffin]

Fact: No one knows what will happen when we die (Yes, not even the great Stephen Hawking)

That being said if i have to choose between being optimistic and pesimistic i would rather be optimistic and believe in an afterlife.

Yes boys valhalla; eat, drink, women and playing crpg for real all day long

[ArchonAlarion]

God is dead.

Long live Dog!

But seriously, religion is a nasty blight of stupidity and in a century or two it will be gone (unless our civilization regresses or something... wait that's probable).

Anyone who has access to the internet and is "religious" should be ashamed of themselves for clinging to what is obviously pure fantasy or, at the very most, one of many stories of how the universe might actually be governed by weird anthropomorphic entities who like to demand shit from humans (sounds like... primitive parental projections!)

[cutsomecheesewithmybow]

Science is the new religion and people follow it as blindly as they have followed its predecessors.

[Linx]

I'm Asatru. Neo-Norse Paganism.


Our gods aren't "do what we want or be damned". They teach lessons and guide you to a better life and ask they honor you as you would your ancestors. Fits my lifestyle and my ideals. When I was a child I was Christian because of my grandmother, then I went into an agnostic period before settling on Asatru.

[Dammit]

I enjoy people that say "Jesus never existed"

Oh hai, you dont have to believe what he taught but to say he never existed? Are you retarded?

[Eyerra]

No objective proof of god/gods = no reason to believe in god/gods. No, Bible nor Qu'ran nor Pali Canon nor Torah don't count. :V

Yes, I think Stephen Hawking has a respectable say in this for his scientific accomplishments. His quote about human consciousness as a sum of neurological connections and hormonal/electrical impulses is as far as we can get at this moment. Why make assumptions based on primite societies beliefs that were to satisfy human curiosity about the world?

If you didn't have a 'soul' before you were born why would you have one after death? Or do you now have to (Lord knows why...) rely on scientific knowledge about conception / psychology / whatever?

[Dammit]

Ah well, Jesus still existed and was a documented man that did live.

OF course you dont have to believe what he taught or who he was...but saying Jesus never existed is like saying einstein never existed because you dont believe in him.

History =/= Religion.

[Eyerra]

I saw Jesus yesterday at the mall!

Ah well, Jesus still existed and was a documented man that did live.

True, but you have to consider a lot of that was written decades and centuries after his passing.
I see him as a cool, hippie & schizophrenic dude who smoked a lot.

[Soldier_of_God]

wow this thread is still kicking? lol!