YaTEdiGo: Anyone that thinks that if God exists, can explain his or HER or ITS will with a "Bible" or "Coram" or "Tora" or whatever... should look around, and pay attention to the Cosmos, and check how big is the universe, and how many miracles are out there and even inside us all the f... time
DRM_free_fan: Miracles suppose the existence of God.
YaTEdiGo: to start thinking that all the bullshit in that books has zero options of being truth... more when GOD, supposed creator of the universe, tell you that women need to be covered by burkas, or that you need to circumcised, that you cannot use condoms, or that if you are gay you will go to hell, or limbo, etc, etc, etc...
In this small pale blue dot of dust in the middle of a huge almost infinite universe these stupid things are very important to the Creator of the Universe itself, YEAH SURE... is SO RIDICULOUS that I wonder how people can still believe that children fairy tales.
DRM_free_fan: Well I don't know what books you are thinking about but out of the things you mentioned - most of them simply do not exist in any holy text I have read and the remainder are not mandatory.
Tallima: There's a prolific preacher (I forget which one) that firmly believes that all of the zombie movies/games/culture is specifically the work of the devil so that people will distrust the resurrected in Christ.
DRM_free_fan: Don't believe at face value what any preacher says. The test is whether it is in the Holy Bible or not. (Also see Acts 17:11)
DRM_free_fan: Psalms 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Here is the thing about me though. I usuallly keep my thoughts on Gods and the reasons for our excistance to myself. I do not want to convince you there is no God that is something I keep to myself. Something that some Atheists try to impose on people. And I dislike discussing this topic because in the end it all ends in a matter of opinion. If you want to believe in God go ahead I am not stopping you. If you are content then thats all there is to it. And again it was only my opinion as to why I dislike the concept of Missions. I am not trying to prevent them. I just dislike the idea. But I will answer the questions you asked of me.
1. I recognize that there were. Same with Islam there were former Jews and Christians that converted to Islam.
2. I would not know I have to see it for myself to understand the Messianic Prophecies.
3. Are you expecting that I would say that Atheism is either just as or even more arrogant in their belief than people of the Abrahamic Faiths? The thing is that again this is just my opinion in that if I was in the shoes of a person worshiping a different faith entirely. But in the end I just don't believe in any Faiths or gods.
4. I have no comment
5.Ditto
6. Still consider the vastness of this Universe and wonder why does this Abrahamic God favors us so much instead of the rest of his created universe? For all we know he probably created in even better race then us in some far off planet.
But than again who I am to question a god. A god can do whatever it wants when it wants since it is all powerful.
ET3D: You clearly didn't understand what I said. You're confusing several matters: whether God could exist, whether God would care, and whether God would say things such as these.
Thinking about it, it's possible that you simply have no idea what the scriptures say, so while it's easy for you to lash at religion, at what people have done in its name, it's based on ignorance. I'm not an expert either, but I think I'm less biased.
DRM_free_fan: Couldn't have put it better - on both points.
ET3D: People have done, and continue to do, evil things regardless of religion. The greatest senseless killings of millions of people in the 20th century, which beat everything ever done in the name of religion, were done by rulers who were decidedly anti-religion.
DRM_free_fan: Quote: "Tremendous harm has been done in the name of religion. But then more people have been murdered in the last century by those who loved to hate religion, than in all of the religious wars in the whole of history, and then some! Stalin, consistent with most Communist programmes, was fiercely atheistic, and Hitler, with his hatred for religious authority, killed more over 30 million people between them. We can then add a couple of million people who died due to the brutality of Pol Pot. What about the number of people killed by Mao Tse Tung? Estimates vary between 40 to 80 million or ever more, but it's impossible to calculate accurately because he deliberately starved so many people. No matter how many times people repeat the mantra 'religion is the cause of most wars and violence', the facts of history tell a different story.
Mao and Stalin were not merely killers who happened to be atheists. The atheistic philosophy of twentieth-century Communism provided the excuse. They had a desire to eliminate religion and felt no problem with destroying human life, as they believed they were accountable to no moral authority higher than themselves." unquote. Mussolini was in Atheist and he was not Communist. Besides how I see Stalin did what he did because he wanted the entire country to basically swear ultimate loyalty and servitude to him. He thinks ANY organization, including organized religion, as a threat to his power and government.
But just because he these men were atheist does not reflect Athism in its entirety. Even as an Atheist myself I do not approve and condemn the actions of Stalin and Mussolini, just as I would condemn the actions of the Catholic Church's Inqusition and Protestant Witch Hunts of the 17 Century and the current crisis of ISIS killing minority races in Iraq.
