Isn't it bizarre humans still believe in God? (delusion, preach, fanaticism)
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Originally Posted by jman07
This just boggles my mind how such a large percentage of the population goes to church to worship a God that doesn't exist and shows absolutely no signs of existing. Its just so primitive. Realistically it seems like once humans became smart enough to build things, have reasoning skills, write, speak, create civilizations, we would have reached the level of intelligence to realize there is no God. I just don't get it.
jman, you haven't experienced God. The very fact that such a large percentage of human population has, might give you pause to rethink your nonbelief.
Let me leave you with this. There are people who don't believe in the "Christian" religion, who ascribe to "the answer my friend, is blowing in the wind", meaning, you ask a question of the universe and you will quickly get the answer. Try it. Ask a question out loud to the universe, and wait for an answer, and if you are open to looking for the answer, you will get a clear answer. That's God.
... you haven't experienced God. The very fact that such a large percentage of human population has, might give you pause to rethink your nonbelief.
No more than large numbers of the population claiming that they've experienced fairies would make me change my non-belief about fairies.
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Let me leave you with this. There are people who don't believe in the "Christian" religion, who ascribe to "the answer my friend, is blowing in the wind", meaning, you ask a question of the universe and you will quickly get the answer. Try it. Ask a question out loud to the universe, and wait for an answer, and if you are open to looking for the answer, you will get a clear answer. That's God.
jman, you haven't experienced God. The very fact that such a large percentage of human population has, might give you pause to rethink your nonbelief.
Let me leave you with this. There are people who don't believe in the "Christian" religion, who ascribe to "the answer my friend, is blowing in the wind", meaning, you ask a question of the universe and you will quickly get the answer. Try it. Ask a question out loud to the universe, and wait for an answer, and if you are open to looking for the answer, you will get a clear answer. That's God.
I love how it always involves "being open" to receiving an answer -- or "you have to believe in God first before you'll experience God."
I've asked questions of the thin air many times and received absolutely nothing. Granted, I could have arbitrarily stamped "god" onto a thousand different things that happened after asking a question, but doing so would be no better than reading tea leaves or chicken entrails.
It's all about interpretation and ascribing meaning to random events.
Plus, receiving "an" answer is not the same thing as receiving the correct answer. We tend to see what we want to see, hear what we want to hear.
jman, you haven't experienced God. The very fact that such a large percentage of human population has, might give you pause to rethink your nonbelief.
Let me leave you with this. There are people who don't believe in the "Christian" religion, who ascribe to "the answer my friend, is blowing in the wind", meaning, you ask a question of the universe and you will quickly get the answer. Try it. Ask a question out loud to the universe, and wait for an answer, and if you are open to looking for the answer, you will get a clear answer. That's God.
There's something in that. Standing in the open and looking at the sky and asking "What? Why?' and you may well get a Feeling. If you have been well primed with religious indoctrination, guess what that feeling will morph into? But let's concede that, for all we know, it's telling us something. The evidence is against it, but let's suppose it is a mental revelation of a god behind it.
Which god? They we put it is "Sort out between yourselves which god and which religion you all agree on, then get back to us."
jman, you haven't experienced God. The very fact that such a large percentage of human population has, might give you pause to rethink your nonbelief.
Let me leave you with this. There are people who don't believe in the "Christian" religion, who ascribe to "the answer my friend, is blowing in the wind", meaning, you ask a question of the universe and you will quickly get the answer. Try it. Ask a question out loud to the universe, and wait for an answer, and if you are open to looking for the answer, you will get a clear answer. That's God.
I asked the universe why some people still think that disagreement with them must be the product of a closed mind.
I asked the universe why some people still think that disagreement with them must be the product of a closed mind.
As soon as it answers I'll be back with a report.
No nee o bothr the universe people find it very difficult o se things from the otehr point of view. That's ok, so long as they get he other point of view - even without acepting it. But a really closed mind will not even listen to the otehr point of view and then accuse the other side of not doing the listening.
So, here we are each thinking it's the other side with the closed mind.
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No nee o bothr the universe people find it very difficult o se things from the otehr point of view. That's ok, so long as they get he other point of view - even without acepting it. But a really closed mind will not even listen to the otehr point of view and then accuse the other side of not doing the listening.
