Why do some people still cling to religion?
Watch this postDespite there being absolutely no evidence that 'god' exists why, and how, are some religious people convinced that there is an omniscient and omnipotent 'god' out there watching our every move? 'Jesus loves you' they tell us, while neatly ignoring the genocide of middle eastern Christians. I wonder why a loving 'god' allows the appalling persecution of some of his most devout followers to continue, when 'he' could stop the carnage and slaughter just by willing it. After all, if he created an entire universe, the salvation of a few thousand Christians should be a doddle, shouldn't it?
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How can dead people be 'held to account' when they are deceased, departed, dead, defunct and discontinued? Talk about flogging a dead horse!
There is any amount of definitions used up to the present moment. Anything from the simple faith one has to the wars and aggression ( in the name of religion ) on earth.
I personally do not use the word religion in my way of thinking and living a life.
I have faith and take comfort from that faith. This faith through the church, is a firm ground of stability and I am content with what I glean .
If someone has walked the earth before me and what I read or learn about that, comforts me and interests me then I have something to connect with.
Medieval, Gothic architecture, church architecture all have a quality in the workmanship of their time. The presence I feel when I visit a place like this is strong enough to open my heart and my eyes to the magnificence and thinking behind their creation.
Walk the earth, night or day and look up and around you. What do you see?
The world is your Cathedral.
The science of earth is fascinating. The creation of earth is fascinating.
As we live life, learn from life, to hold on and literally pray ( we all pray ) for a different outcome or work and wait patiently until bad becomes better.
Believe in something, it does not have to be religion.
Faith in something is a comfort. Whatever that might be.
Not the conflicting aspects of religion as it is portrayed or as one may see it.
I have one question that I would be glad if you would answer..............do you have any theories about the 'why' of your opinion; i.e. is there a purpose to it, which is where God and religion enter the picture possibly?
When you use the word 'god' what do you mean by 'god' and what exactly is 'god?'
Where is 'god' and if you are so certain, how do you know?
Before you answer, be warned that, 'because I just KNOW' is not a valid answer, you will need to do better than that.
PS, I am not anti-religion, or anti-Christian, I just don't have a faith.
Just as we have software developers right now creating robots (fashioned out of our own image) then the Developers are creating this planet and others.
Man cannot see outside its own world.
It can only imagine within the limitations of its own world. Thus, we fashion aliens similar to ourselves.
"All this" is merely an experiment on a lab bench, with the Developers looking on having a darn good laugh. Or maybe I just gave them a human trait because it's all I can do. (big grin)
Wonderful animal creation ??? You mean those savage beasts which rip each other apart to survive. How loving is that ?
The bible gives good advice on how to improve relationships with others ? So does How to make friends and influence people. We know who wrote that because the authors name is in the book. How many authors names should there be in the front cover of the bible, and other so-called religious books ? Warnings of over eating and drinking ??? We don't need a "religious" book to warn us, everyone knows what happens if we eat and drink too much.
Jesus said ..... ??? Don't you mean It is written in a piece of fictitious writing that an imaginary character said ..... and anyone with commonsense can work out that those who go around trying to persuade someone else to accept and believe something which cannot be supported by any evidence (other than some writings) are bound to attract derision.
The sad state of affairs "we" find ourselves in, is because some very nasty people bullied and brainwashed lots of weaker ignorant people into accepting their nonsensical stories as the truth. How bizarre that some force which could create this earth and everything upon it couldn't put something in our DNA so we would know "the truth". And how strange writing wasn't invented before life, it may have made everything so much easier eh.
And faith is so powerful eh. Ask those who went to a witch doctor to cure their ebola.
Is god able but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is god willing and able, then whence cometh evil?
Is god unable and unwilling, then why call him god?
'God' created the entire universe, just by willing it into existence, but he can't save a few innocents from annihilation at the hands of barbarians.
The fact that he does nothing, means that he either doesn't care, or that he doesn't exist.
I know which option my money is on.
Quantum physics is real, religion is myth and superstition.
I had a very religious upbringing and did not take rejection of my beliefs lightly. Like you I have faith, but rather than a belief in a God, my faith is that scientific theory and its future advances will reveal reasons for our existence. Unfortunately for me, if you're right you will be rewarded in the afterlife, but if I'm right I will never know. However, it's what I believe and like you I have to stay true to my beliefs.
I have many friends who are believers and I am fine with that.
I think some people need faith and some people don't. Somewhere down the line they will find a 'faith' gene. I am pretty sure I do not have it, but we must always be tolerant of other people's views.
GoD = Group of Developers ... and this is allllll an experiment on a lab bench with the Developers having a laugh watching the chaos going on.
And so many people cling to religion because they can't accept that this life is allllll we have and need to be lead.
I once asked the question of a physics Don at Oxford and he said" ME ? Well, I think there are far too many long chain molecules for this all to have happened by chance, so I keep an open mind.."
So personally I think "Something" triggered the big bang, and it has a purpose in mind, star mechanics are far too ordered towards the creation of Worlds to be purely a chance thing....So I will acknowledge whatever that Force was as the Supreme Being. call that God if you like.
In UK religion is dying out amongst our native population, it is creating a vacuum, and that is being filled by other religions and believers, imported or not !
Is it because I disagree with your claim to have 'knowledge of god?' If so, please tell me how you know that god exists, when no-one has ever seen god, no-one has ever heard his great booming voice from the heavens, and no-one in fear of their lives has ever been saved by divine intervention?
Indeed, it seems that if god does exist then he has no interest in humanity and is content to watch the wholesale slaughter of Christians in the middle east and do nothing to help them.
All that it would take for god to have credibility, would be for him to heal just one amputee, and explain why he 'created' more than 350,000 different varieties of beetles.
We are born, we live, and then we die. There is nothing after death, no afterlife, no heaven, and certainly no hell.
Enjoy the time you have here on earth, because it's all you will ever have.