Let's have a religious debate in the middle of this board!

[evil greg guy]

I am not religious, but i feel that religion has the right to their beliefs and such, as long as religion has no hold on politics, education, medical care, etc etc.

To me, the concept of faith is to blindly put ones trust into something, without truly knowing that it exists. It is the CHOICE to believe. So when you ask someone WHY they believe, it isn't fair, because they have faith. They dont KNOW it exists, but it is their choice to believe that it does.

[Shyox]

First page reader.

<i>One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
-- Albert Einstein, echoing Robert Green Ingersoll ("I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains." from the Field-Ingersoll Debate), quoted from PhysLink.com</i>

"Question #5: Why is God such a huge proponent of slavery in the Bible?"

there's nothing wrong with slavery if it is consensual. as for forced slavery, i dont know if the bible god is a proponent of that. it's possible that society was not ready to give up slavery, and that the bible god did not ask them to be completely perfect, but just mitigated their imperfection. but who knows.

No widespread slavery has EVER been consensual. What are you talking about? And in the bible, it DEFINITELY promotes slavery, and hate. The bible specifically says to hate those who do things that are wrong, even though the gospel tells you to love everyone.

Another argument is that man wrote the bible... Which means that anything and everything has the oppurtunity to be completely infallible. It means that we can selectively pick and choose what parts of the bible we like and don't like, right? Sure, if that's what you want. But the whole point is that it could easily be fiction, because as you said, was written by man. There's nothing to say it was inspired by a divinity except thousands of people believing it is so and continuing to proliferate that fact. I say screw the bible, or atleast bring it back down to the level of the thousands of other meaningful works of literature.

I have a few questions of my own. Is it truly just for people to believe in a religion, simply because it will grant them heaven? Submitting to religion and a God out of fear and hope for reward is paganism, no different from the Incans, Aztecs, Greeks and Romans, whom we scoff at and call silly.

Why does God ask us to worship him? It just seems very egotistical and ridiculous, and without a point. The truth is that Christianity inherited this trait from the other religions it was born from.

I do, however, have the same views you do on Organized Religion.

Alright, time to read the other pages.

[liamfergie]

about the banana theorey it could be a possibility that it doesnt just fit perfectly for the mouth maybe god new there would be prozzies