I.quit believing when I realized no.matter how hard.I would pray the magic wizard wouldn't give Superman's powers.

 

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LOL yeah only if words cease to have meaning, then we can interpret anything as anything we want

 

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I think it's interesting how most people seem to lose their "faith" because they realize it doesn't make any sense. Even though that's sorta besides the point.

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I think it points to how most people's "faith" is not actually faith. It seems very important to most people that believing in god "makes sense."

Most of the reasons not to believe don't make sense either. People try and cover up their real reasons for losing faith with more sensible ones. People that believe do the same.

 

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Words do have meaning, but yours dont merit the discrediting of what the scriptures say. Your not the first to be a scoffer and you aren't the last. The scriptures have been here for thousands of years and they will be here until the end and scoffers and nay sayers cant and wont stop that. It has survived long after people with greater wisdom and knowledge than you have tried their best to stop it or discredit it, even when it meant killing believers to stop it from spreading and yet its still here. Long after your wisdom and knowledge have failed you, and your dead and gone they will remain. They will still hold their power and meaning. Nothing is going to change that not your words or the words of the greatest scholars on this earth will change that. You just aren't that powerful. After all your a created being like the rest of us, but the creator is better than you and I.

 

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The whole idea of basing my life of archaic fiction that was more or less word of mouth with little or no historical backing just seemed stupid to me.. Why should i conform and agree with something just because it's a tradition which has been perpetrated through the ages by people who basically used it as a tool to gain power over people.. And if not that then just acting as a corrosive agent upon humanity dividing us further from one another while doing it's best to conserve society and limit the freedoms of the people.

And lets not forget the myriad of different religions that all claim that their god(s) are the only true gods just shows what a preposterous notion belief is.

 

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Studies shows that religion is dying out in the west.. Turns out modern man does not need religion, my country is about 80% atheistic or agnostic.

So you're wrong there sonny jim, where religion is growing is in the middle east.. Lots of stupid uneducated people it's the prime growing ground for religion.

 

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Illy you never know, 40 years after your death the people may finally embrace your hidden truth and form a religion around you.

 

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Yes, words have meaning, except when they don't. In fantasyville, it is possible for a god to be his own son.

Incidentally, the word "monotheism" doesn't appear anywhere in the Bible. There are many references to Jesus and God as two separate beings, though.





Cave paintings in France have also been here for thousands of years. I know you think you made a valid point there but you did not, except to demonstrate that the only reason cults are able to survive is because of the ready availability of wilfully ignorant people to keep the cults alive.

 

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I am on board with militant atheism not making much more sense than militant belief.


But it seems pretty hard to argue it makes as much sense to believe in a specific God with a specific set of scriptures that make no sense than not to believe in that specific God and set of nonsensical scriptures.


When you hear a crazy story in other contexts I don't think most people think it makes as much sense to believe it as not to believe it.


If you care about what "makes sense" based on the standards we use in the rest of our lives God doesn't.