[Offers] What religion are you?

[goldstone]

Religion is mass delusion.

 

[darkwolf666]

It really depends what replaces it.

If insatiable consumerism and social media inspired naricissism is the new religion, then God help us all!

god (with a lower case g) help us all then...

 

[Megazone]

Are you saying there's no such thing as free will and everything is random? If so yes, that's probably correct.



I don't think anyone is debating the existence of that particular god.

Let's not forget the one off change to the goal difference rules for that season only, which you could argue saved our club from extinction. You trying to tell me God play no part in that too?

 

[Deadly Danson]

Look at the 4th division league table in December 96/97 season, then look at it in may.

How can anyone clvim there's not at god?

I would suggest Hereford fans might give it a go.

 

[Megazone]

I would suggest Hereford fans might give it a go.

Bulls are clearly devil creatures.

or is it just another coincidence the devil also has horns?

 

[daveinplzen]

If there is a god, what relevance would these religions have in planets in other galaxies or did God just decide randomly on an insignificant planet in our galaxy for this? Religions are made by man for control in my eyes.

 

[BBassic]

It's all a load of shit, innit? But if it comforts people and gives them some purpose then whatever, no skin off my nose.

Unless you use your religion to justify war and / or terrorism and / or oppression. Then you can f**k off.

 

[RossyG]

If there is a god, what relevance would these religions have in planets in other galaxies ....

But... there aren't any people on them.

 

[Commander]

The answer to the "If there's a (Christian) God then why does He [sic] allow X to happen" is answered by the belief that this isn't all there is. Far from it. Satan rules this Earth, where you spend up to 100 years; God rules the next one, where you spend eternity. This is the testing ground. The authorities at Auschwitz were allowed free will - as are we all - and chose to exercise it that way. They'll be judged accordingly.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend eternity somewhere? Trillions and trillions of years. How does that actually sound, when you think about it? ****ing horrendous. It often seems to me that many religious people have never really thought about these things properly, they've just accepted what they were told and haven't really evaluated and questioned it.

If we are supposed to take the Bible seriously, how can it have got so many major things so spectacularly wrong? Why would I trust one thing it says, when others are unquestionably false? Unless of course you actually believe the Earth was created 5,000 years ago, and Noah got two polar bears and two mosquitoes on to a boat, in which case you are clearly beyond help.

 

[Silverhatch]

Isn't it now scientifically proven that the subconscious isn't powered by the brain? If so whats going on there?[/QUOTE]

There's been a lot of debate about Freud and alternative theories about how the subconscious operates - but it's definitely part of your own brain function.

 

[Commander]

But... there aren't any people on them.

Not people, no. But there has to be other life, surely?

 

[RossyG]

Not people, no. But there has to be other life, surely?

I don't believe so, but you might... as a matter of faith, of course.

 

[Megazone]

Not people, no. But there has to be other life, surely?

and if so I bet they all believe in a creator too.

Nutters

 

[RossyG]

If we are supposed to take the Bible seriously, how can it have got so many major things so spectacularly wrong? Why would I trust one thing it says, when others are unquestionably false? Unless of course you actually believe the Earth was created 5,000 years ago, and Noah got two polar bears and two mosquitoes on to a boat, in which case you are clearly beyond help.

The Bible is two halves: the Jewish half (Old) and the Christian half (New). That stuff's in the Jewish half. You'll have to ask them about that.

 

[Commander]

I don't believe so, but you might... as a matter of faith, of course.

Would it not seem odd to you that in a possibly infinite space, the only place where life exists is a tiny spec? What's so special about Earth? Would it not seem an awful waste if this is genuinely the case?

It's not a matter of faith, it's a matter of likelihood and logic.

 

[Commander]

The Bible is two halves: the Jewish half (Old) and the Christian half (New). That stuff's in the Jewish half. You'll have to ask them about that.

So theirs is wrong, but yours is right? You know they are just as convinced it is the other way around?

 

[RossyG]

Would it not seem odd to you that in a possibly infinite space, the only place where life exists is a tiny spec? What's so special about Earth? Would it not seem an awful waste if this is genuinely the case?

It's not a matter of faith, it's a matter of likelihood and logic.

Have you any evidence for life on other planets? No. So it's faith.

One you're fully entitled to, needless to say.

 

[RossyG]

So theirs is wrong, but yours is right? You know they are just as convinced it is the other way around?

It's not about whether it's right or wrong. There may well be a lot of truth in it. The Old Testament simply doesn't apply to Christians.

I wouldn't dream of challenging any Jewish person on their faith.

 

[Commander]

Have you any evidence for life on other planets? No. So it's faith.

One you're fully entitled to, needless to say.

No. But the odds would surely suggest it probably does exist somewhere.

Have you any evidence for God existing, or more accurately, the God that the Bible talks about existing?

 

[Icy Gull]

Have we done the “more people have been killed (often in a barbaric way) because of religion than pretty well any other way in history” yet?