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Regardless. We are all trying to connect to a higher being, higher and much stronger than ourselves. It's worship of higher being no matter how you slice it. I might call him God, the next person might call him Energy. But "He" is real and we all know it.
Not everyone agrees with you. There are a few million Americans that classify themselves as agnostics, atheists, or apathists, that do not relate to any "Gods" in any way. Therefore, saying "He is real and we all know it" is not true. These people are productive members of society. I've never heard of any of them eating their young either.
Not everyone agrees with you. There are a few million Americans that classify themselves as agnostics, atheists, or apathists, that do not relate to any "Gods" in any way. Therefore, saying "He is real and we all know it" is not true. These people are productive members of society. I've never heard of any of them eating their young either.
This is true.
But I wonder if you dropped any one of them from a 100 story building who would they cry out for?..lol...jus saying...
Yes, that is true. As I understand it, a "God" is not central in those religions.
Yes. However I did log ago find a connection between East and West. A Jesuit priest in Japan said that while we understand Christ the man we do not all understand what he called "The Christ Consciousness". Later i saw that the Buddhist made the same connection Between Buddha and "Bushin" which would translate literally as "The Heart of Buddha". Do we not have Christ of Sacred Heart? Interesting don't you think?
Your opinion. fair enough. Now pass me a brew. all this religious talk is making me thirsty.
Of course, it is my opinion (many of which I prefer to keep to self).
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Ok, but after all that, if people are running all around in anarchy, killing at will like the natural born killers movie, you can't enjoy any of the ambitions you may have. Morality keeps us sane in society so we can enjoy life.. and morality comes from God imo.
Well, it has been a popular perception...
"This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief. The great masses of a nation are not composed of philosophers. For the masses of the people, especially faith is absolutely the only basis of a moral outlook on life."
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kempf (Vol I, Chapter 10)
I appreciate this approach, however...
"Religion has two principal enemies, fanaticism and infidelity, or that which is called atheism. The first requires to be combated by reason and morality, the other by natural philosophy."
- Thomas Paine, 1798
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Regardless. We are all trying to connect to a higher being, higher and much stronger than ourselves. It's worship of higher being no matter how you slice it. I might call him God, the next person might call him Energy. But "He" is real and we all know it.
How about stop trying to cast a blanket over every single person on the planet so as to promote your own silly personal agenda? Some of us, myself included, do not worship a God, we do not believe in the supernatural, and we do not believe in some sort of divinely written moral code. Somehow, through all of this, I have managed to become a productive member of society. I don't kill, rape, murder, torture, steal; I pay my taxes and have car insurance and I do not knowingly commit illegal acts.
Thus, even if there were a divinely written moral code, it wouldn't matter what anyone believed because that morality would be synonymous with everyone. This is clearly at odds with reality considering the vast differences in cultural acceptances of what is right and wrong (Abuse of women in the Middle East, for example); why such strong statistical evidence factors crime in with education, gross wages, and positive familial support rather than belief in superstitious nonsense.
No , President Obama believes that the federal government should have the power to make everyone hand out free birth control, regardless of their personal beliefs.
If the country was founded on the ideas and beliefs on Christianity why is it that the country continues to bow to minority groups? Is it really a big deal if there is a time for prayer before school or that God is a word in the Pledge? Really? I mean really? People need to get a life and stop focusing on small stuff.
That phrase was coined a LONG time ago and times have changed. During that time, Christianity was the way of life. Modern times have brought about different ways of living. I'm not saying that I agree with those alternative beliefs, but even as a Christian, I can accept reality and reality is that the U.S. hasn't eliminated that phrase from our currency, but that doesn't mean that we are a country that is under ONE god.
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