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Religion and Death.
Started this discussion. Last reply by Dave Gibbs Aug 2, 2012. 37 Replies 4 Likes
Do people believe in religion mainly because of the incentive of immortality? Because as I look around me, many theists today say they believe in God and are "religious", but are anything but the…Continue
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Simon Stepho replied to William Boyd's discussion 'What's your favourite question to ask a theist?'"I'd ask them if God was perfect and all-loving, then why did he create the devil? If he was perfect, then He'd predict that the devil would betray him, and if he was all-loving, then he wouldn't allow the devil to exist and wreak…"
Heather Spoonheim replied to Simon Stepho's discussion 'Religion and Death.'"Hey, Jerod - What's YOUR real answer? LOL."
Jerod replied to Simon Stepho's discussion 'Religion and Death.'"What a black and white answer! Only some do, actually. You could always find your theist friends and ask them, or go out of your way to actually meet theists and really find out from their perspective why they believe what they believe. Some will…"
William Boyd replied to Simon Stepho's discussion 'Religion and Death.'"The death fear is put in them as children. Yes they were raised in the environment and thus have no reason to stray away from the fairy tale unless they actually start to think for themselves."
William Boyd replied to Simon Stepho's discussion 'Religion and Death.'"Post it and friend me so I can read their diabolical spewings...LOL
I have purposely kept my friend list small on facebook, however I'd open up my quota for such a good cause."
William Boyd replied to Simon Stepho's discussion 'Religion and Death.'"hit the nail on the head sir"
Barbara Gant replied to Simon Stepho's discussion 'Religion and Death.'"Yes that something is recycling."
Simon Stepho replied to Unseen's discussion 'What to do about a world without jobs?'"I feel that to create more jobs in this ever effecient oriented country of ours, we must revamp our education system. Create and expand more colleges and universities and make it so that the government pays for a good deal of students'…"
Simon Stepho commented on Rob Klaers's blog post 'Mormons quit church in mass resignation ceremony'"Wheather they believe in God or not, we should gain confort in the all too true saying "divide and conquer"."
Unseen replied to Simon Stepho's discussion 'Religion and Death.'"I don't think animals, even apes, fear death. They may fear something, but death is a concept humans hardly understand. It involves thinking of a time when the thinker will be absent from the scene. I just can't imagine animals thinking…"
dragotron replied to Simon Stepho's discussion 'Religion and Death.'"Yes.. it was the most efficient way because it offered the apes an avenue to not have to fear death so much. Essentially, to not have to think about the reality of the world around them in that regard."
Heather Spoonheim replied to Simon Stepho's discussion 'Religion and Death.'"Personally I think religion was just the most efficient way to hijack the magical thinking of a bunch of hyper-paranoid apes to keep them from killing each other - at least within the clan/cult."
Simon Stepho replied to Simon Stepho's discussion 'Religion and Death.'"I really like your post on human intelligence, though we seem to have gone backwards after learning how to hunt as soon as we adopted religion!"
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- I come from a conservative Middle-Eastern Christain family and I'm sick of religion being shoved down my throat. I love to question and do research, which is why when looking at the bible, many of the stories didn't make logical sense, and when the historical records poke major holes in it, I realized I had to make a choice: live truthfully or accept a mythological lie. I chose the former. I also have major issues with the Problem of Evil and an all powerful, "all good" God. If He had all the power and was all good, why did he create Satan in the first place: even before creating him, He would've known that Satan would betray Him, so why not only create him, but also let him have his own domain he could rule over? It simply doesn't make any sense to me.
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