Religion vital to the human race?

[SirLoin]

I still believe. This is just another yadda yadda way to look at it. So...you want people to believe in the Sun? Ok...fine...no biggie...instead of Jesus we'll have Sunny. 

Well,we used to have polytheism(many gods Apollo,Zues etc)..Now it's monotheism(one god).

We're getting closer to the true # all the time..Just need to go one God more.

[Gh0stFT]

before you where born, you dont remember pain or anything else, so why the fear of death ?
its part of the circle of life, born, raise children, then die,
hey but it can be alot of fun between this things !

[SirLoin]

before you where born, you dont remember pain or anything else, so why the fear of death ?
its part of the circle of life, born, raise children, then die,
hey but it can be alot of fun between this things !

Well said.Why not take life for what it is without this afterlife/supernatural stuff ?

[RedTop]

Well said.Why not take life for what it is without this afterlife/supernatural stuff ?

Those who like to believe in a heaven and an afterlife , may ask the same of you.....why worry about what it says on money...public buildings....so on and so on....if you don't believe in God...why is it such a big deal?

Why is it that the words..."In God we trust" such a huge thing to people that don't believe in god?

[SirLoin]

Why is it that the words..."In God we trust" such a huge thing to people that don't believe in god?

Why are you trying to speak for me ?

[Gh0stFT]

The words "In God we trust" on a currency is an example about just that Redtop.
Wonder who invented this advertising thing heh

[RedTop]

Why are you trying to speak for me ?

Wasn't trying to speak for you...my apologies if it sounded that way.......

Just generally asking a question. I sort of took it from your posts that you are an athiest. No offense meant there SirLoin

[sluggish]

Sorry I didn't read all three pages of posts...

A major part of becoming a mature adult is the slow dawning realization that you aren't going to be the one person in the history of the world to live forever. 

Welcome to reality.

[SirLoin]

Wasn't trying to speak for you...my apologies if it sounded that way.......

Just generally asking a question. I sort of took it from your posts that you are an athiest. No offense meant there SirLoin

I'm an anti-theist..not an Atheist..There is a big difference which i have already explained in this thread.

[Baitman]

I'm an anti-theist..not an Atheist..There is a big difference which i have already explained in this thread.

I wiki ed the two definitions but don't see the difference please enlighten me?

[angelsandair]

tell that to someone dying of some hideously painful and debilitating terminal disease........ 

like I told you in another thread...THINK .....then type......you still have that process backwards.

You have a point. I'd hate to think of it that way though.


I wouldn't wanna die, I'd like to have that 30 seconds to a minute left to breathe, but if I was in extreme pain or torture, I'd just want it to end.

Why is it that the words..."In God we trust" such a huge thing to people that don't believe in god?

You know that those people getting offended by it are only something like 15%? Last I checked, and it somehow got out-lawed in California...

[Nilsen]

I believe my knowledge of the fact that I am going to die and be no more, that everything I have ever loved or will love will die and be no more, that every great and wise man who has ever lived will die and be no more, that there is likely no divine help or greater purpose to existence, is slowly driving me a little insane.

That is what keeps me sane. If what the religious types were saying was correct it would slowly drive me insane. A heaven were you could meet people that died? lol how would that work out if you say married again after one you loved died? Would you be allowed to date em both in heaven? What age would you be? The age you died at? That would be fun for all those who dies at 99 and gets to look and feel like that for eternity 

You die and thats it. Thank cod for that. How people can fall for religion in these days is beyond me. Its good business for some I guess.

[moot]

Both you theists and atheists are going round and round the fishbowl with no certain answer in sight.  You're spending time here on earth on some astronomical bet that you can't even figure out the odds for.  It's a waste of time.  Life isn't waiting for you, and no amount of time and effort spent fancying one post-mortem possibility or another will make anything here on earth get better or worse.

[SkyRock]

Why is it that the words..."In God we trust" such a huge thing to people that don't believe in god?

Do you want "In God we trust" on your money and public buildings?   Why?



The God that some believe in, might not be the God that others believe in.   Spirituality, in it's purest form, should be a very private matter, not something you post on a building or currency.   

[SkyRock]

You know that those people getting offended by it are only something like 15%? Last I checked, and it somehow got out-lawed in California...

Maybe, because it is against the law.