A day will come in which no more churches, and no more religion exists. A day in which we run our lives with realistic thoughts and explain things in a realistic ways.
Yeah, nice call. Oh wait, I forgot: Christianity has been around as long as everyone can remember. I don't agree that, right or wrong, it'll fade.
Your argument is logical, but proves nothing. Your logical explaination only holds true for physical manifestations, not thoughts or unmanifested entities, which god could be, no way of proving it.
Exactly. There is no conclusive proof one way or the other. It's rather naive to assume that we can necessarily prove or dissprove such a thing on our own here. Wanna talk about realism? Face up to it: you have no clue as to whether or not God exists, because if he does, He's God, and the physical and conceptual rules of this universe don't necessarily apply.
The idea of God was spawned in a time when scientific theory was non existent.
And now science abounds...and well over 90% of all people still believe in SOME kind of Higher Power. Here's just one of the reasons why: science is constantly screwing up and then fixing itself. It's trial and error, which means at any given moment science as a whole is supporting incorrect notions...we just don't know it yet.
But I ask, why would god have a gender?
He doesn't. WE have a gender. If there were only men, there would be no such thing as gender. God was here first, and as such, had no gender. He then created Man in his image, and women thereafter. You're looking at it backwards.
And who would not desire the existence of an all knowing superior being.
Ha! You think it's nice and easy to believe such a thing? I believe it, and I'm constantly struggling with sin. It's very difficult. You, on the other hand, are bound to no such thing. As far as you are concerned, right and wrong do not exist: the only thing that you need to worry about you, and what happens to you. Believing in God is no easier than not believ in God. That seems just as convienent to me, just in a different way.
In fact, God’s perfect creatures are and have destroyed many species, and the perfect world on which we live. We are not a miracle, we are a curse. We destroy, and consume, and then relocate and do it all over again. There is another organism that carries the same habit. A virus. We are no different. Just bigger, and wear cloths. We have no more a soul than a tree or a cat.
Nice Matrix-esque rant.
Perfect world? You think our world is perfect, eh? And yet you think this PERFECT world came about through, what, a random explosion? Sounds more convienent than the existence of a God, IMO. FYI: Christianity doesn't claim we are God's perfect creatures. Where did you get that from? Being made in His image does not make us perfect. The Bible rants on and on about us having all kinds of problems we need to deal with.
I'll give you a differenece between humans and viruses: a virus consumes to live. That's just the way it is. It isn't even capable of thinking about what it is doing. We, on the other hand, debate over it. Many of us try to point out the mistakes we as a race, or species, or nation are making as a whole. In short: many of us are TRYING to be better...to improve.
What if Adolf Hitler read the Bible, and praised Christ everyday of his life? Would he go to heaven? If God is as allknowing as said to be such a process for fate determination would not take place. What would happen to an unbabtised baby is it were to die from birth complications. Would God send a baby to burn forever? Simple questions like these are danced around by the Catholic church. They refuse to take a position on anything.
I'm getting the vibe here that you associate the Catholic Church with God directly, or with all forms of religion. I don't answer to the Catholic Church...and if their shortcomings and beliefs are your basis for these opinions, you'd better re-think things, because there's no good reason to believe they know what God thinks. I will not be bound to them...they are men. Flawed, just as the rest of us are.
Homosexuality in theory is wrong and intrinsically evil. This is yet another example of the puritan idealism that still remains in our Church. Hating a homosexual for being what they are, is just as bad as hating a black man for his skin tone.
I'd say it's more akin to hating an alcoholic for what they are: flawed. They may be born with it, but that doesn't make it good, or right.
A position like this not only makes the Catholic church hypocritical, but a hate group. Like it or not the church is an indirect hate group, and until they once again revise their status on something like this, that’s how they shall remain.
First, see my above paragraph on the connection of the Catholic Church with God and religion. Aside from that, it's not hypocritical. Is it hypocritical to tell your child not to lie? After all, surely you have lied, and probably will do so again. Hypocriscy is doing such things, but not realizing it, or admitting to it, or accounting for it, or making any attempt to fight it.
How could god have created the earth in 7 days, if a day is based on how long it takes the earth to rotate completely? And when god said let there be light, what language did he speak that in? And who was he speaking to.
I doubt you're dumb enough to expect an answer from that. It's probably meant symbolically.
It is my idea that your teen years are your only years for true enlightenment.
It is my idea that anyone who thinks that true enlightenment stops when you turn 20 is just setting themselves up for ignorance. If you value truth so much, there's no reason to ever stop enlightening yourself, and no good reason whatsoever to believe that your teenage years are the best to figure things out. They may be some of the worst: you're inexperienced, usually rebellious, your fluctuating emotions may get in the way, and your body isn't finished growing yet.
Now, enough of this: if you do not believe in God, Tyler, tell me what you do believe in. How did this world come to be? How did we come to be? How did all the things we know come to be? Ponder this, however: if you believe in no Higher Power, the emotion called "love" that you know is fake. It doesn't exist. It might as well be a chemistry experiment. Furthermore, right and wrong cannot exist...meaning that rape and murder are not wrong; just unacceptable to most. Are you preparded to accept such things?
Are you also prepared to believe (if you are an evolutionist) that we are one of at LEAST thousands of humanoid mutants and similar creatures who lived on this earth and died out over time? Scratch that, make it millions. Furthermore, you'd have to, reasonably, believe that a species superior to us lived here some time ago and "made it" farther than we did...and that we, as a species, will die out over time, too.
And yes, listen to Toose: disagree all you want, but it's beyond ignorant to imply that people who believe in God do not think. I write computer code, and my father's (if I do say so myself), a fine economist of sorts. Albert Einstein believed in God. Logic and God are not exclusive. They do no conflict.
What does conflict, however, is going on and on about how you value truth and science, without, it seems, coming to the realization that placing your faith in MAN (the flawed man that you went on for at least a couple paragraphs about as being a screwup of sorts), and what we call science, means placing your faith (yes, faith...we all have faith, no matter what you say) in something that is all about trying something, screwing up, and then trying something else. As a result, if you follow science, plenty of what you believe will either be incorrect, or a half-truth...but you'll die before you have the benefit of learning this.