[Short Hand]

Originally Posted by ninty9

Who cares. People can believe what they want. This thread = oOo:

Canada's Military's funding = oOo:

[Eight Ace]

eek: > oOo:

[BlackJackal]

[quote="Old Reliable":c42e2]if god exists, then why hasn't anything happened since this time period of jesus when the bible takes place. people who are atheists and kill people are allowed to live longer than religious people. it doesnt make sense to me[/quote:c42e2]
they have theirs commin in teh Great White Thrown Judgement.

[Pick Axe]

[quote="Old Reliable":4e9a4]if god exists, then why hasn't anything happened since this time period of jesus when the bible takes place. people who are atheists and kill people are allowed to live longer than religious people. it doesnt make sense to me[/quote:4e9a4]

Ok, God loves everyone, so if your a Christian and you die, your really better off. But for athiests and all, this world is a lot better than Hell, so God might let them live longer, in his mercy.

Mr. Picky

[SoLiDUS]

This twisted logic makes absolutely no sense either. You are given total
freedom of choice to believe in him or not, but ... being charitable, nice
and generous throughout the course of your life has no impact on your
going to Hell because you've decided not to believe while an other, lesser
human sheep that made the choice of accepting the Faith in his slumber
will surpass the former and go to a blissful paradise for eternity. Huh ??

Just think of the incredible intelligence and power it would require to make
such a thing as the Universe and now tell me that after pouring your heart
and soul into giving your creations total freedom of choice to live together
as they so please, that you will give them ten rules that they must follow to
the letter (on top of accepting your existence on faith) lest they suffer for all
eternity.

Whatever. If I had to believe in his being, I would assume that he had
implemented a system of reincarnation on different levels to help guide
the souls to higher stages of consciousness; of spiritual growth. After all,
learning must be part of the process of enlightenment so assuming you
had completely failed your life goal, you would simply "go back to school"
until you've learned in order to progress. Sooner or later you would return
to the source...

An intelligent system like the above or "Heaven and Hell". I prefer to think
of the latter as a way to scare the shit out of anyone questioning the "Faith"...

[Eight Ace]

Originally Posted by SoLiDUS

Whatever. If I had to believe in his being, I would assume that he had
implemented a system of reincarnation on different levels to help guide
the souls to higher stages of consciousness; of spiritual growth. After all,
learning must be part of the process of enlightenment so assuming you
had completely failed your life goal, you would simply "go back to school"
until you've learned in order to progress. Sooner or later you would return
to the source....

...you've just descibed Buddhism,

in my opinion the only one of these man made "religions" that practices what it preaches.

[Old Reliable]

thou shalt not committ adultery. so god is basically a big brother?

[Short Hand]

sigh.. no one understands. neither the atheists nor the fanatics. Either side can pick away at each other. The turth is you have accpet a bit of both the middle path "Like buddhism" "Zen"

[Eight Ace]

[quote="Old Reliable":a7cf5]thou shalt not committ adultery. so god is basically a big brother?[/quote:a7cf5]
Yeah...why would "God" give you a raging bone-on all the time when it's really only for a bit of marital reproduction..?
...you might as well give someone a porsche and tell them once the tank is empty, it's in teh garage for the next year or so...wtf!?