This is strictly my opinion and how I feel. I feel that organized religion has done a few great things for some people, as they need something to believe in. However, organized religion cripples people. Every denomination thinks that their religion is the answer. We have so many religions in the world. How can any one say that their religion is the right one We are born with an an innate ability to distinguish right from wrong. We don't need religion to teach that. Every religion that exists today is the brain child of man or woman that put their doctrines down as law. Even King James rewrote the bible to suit him. Every religion came about by man and man is not perfect...Therefore, no religion is perfect. Every time I turn around there are wars, I.E. Religious wars. Why in the world would a religion be the cause of a war? Isn't it supposed to make you love one another and do good? Organized Religion is a big money maker and a way to control the masses.
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Posted 20 January 2010 - 08:36 PM
Posted 07 August 2009 - 04:21 AM
"No, the original bible would be the Old Testament. Frankly, I find the Old and New Testament Gods to be very very different from each other. The Old Testament God seems to be more of a vengeful creature than the New Testament one. So yeah, it is rather contradicting, in a sense.I agree with Arkane wholly. Much of religion does teach morals, of which you do not need religion to learn. Just because someone is atheist does not mean they lack morals--that's a matter of what their parents instill into them."
The Bible was written by man but inspired by God. Each chapter in the Bible has an author (Genesis-Deuteronomy, the 1st five chapters in the Bible, were all written by Moses. Not one single chapter in the Bible was written by a God but was inspired by God. Old testament is before Christ and New Testament is after Christ.
Posted 07 August 2009 - 03:43 AM
What is the rumor about Mormon's and birth control. I've heard that they don't believe in it and that is way they have anywhere from 4-5 kids, one on the way. And what is the thing with women not being able to wear pants/jeans. I have never seen a mormon female out in public wearing jeans. Is that just 'against the rules'? I'm just curious & like to learn.
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Posted 02 July 2007 - 02:46 PM
Atheism is not truely a belief - it is the absence of a belief. The label "Atheist" announces one thing and one thing only: The disagreement, or rejection of, theism.
Originally, Atheism had been exclusively the belief that there are no gods. But with time, atheism has come to encompass other philosophical concepts. Now, there are two major types of atheism:
- Active Atheism: which is the proof-supported belief in the non-existence of a god. And...
- Passive Atheism: which is the mere disbelief in the existence of a god, but without enough supporting proof to his/her/its non-existence.
I personally am an agnostic, since I find the available proofs to both the existence and the non-existence of a god rather insufficient. Agnosticism, I believe, is strictly a philosophical standpoint and has no direct relation to religion. For example, when I was a Muslim, I still was agnostic! I could philosophically neither prove or disprove the existence of the Islamic god (Allah), but I found the Islamic Holy Book, i.e. the Koran, too perfect to be a human invention and so had to attribute it to the divine. Of course, I was young :-)
7Priest7
Posted 01 July 2007 - 01:20 PM
You demonics screwed up America...
Let me present the facts... If you do not believe research and find copies of Original documents...
America was founded by Christians for Christians
1. Most quotes by the founders were from the Bible
2. The founders were Christian
3. We let immigrants come here who were atheist and are now screwing us over.
4. We did not fall into sin until the supreme court redefined "church"
Now think of the pledge... We would not have put "under God" if we were not Christian.
Our Mint has "in God we trust" for a reason.
I am going to leave America because of you evil Demonics screwing up this country...
Also I will be Certified as a Computer personal before I graduate High School...
What do you have?
So shut up!!!
Alex
Dalv87
Posted 28 May 2007 - 01:19 PM
It's not like they don't want you to bring a Bible to school and they'll search your bag to make sure you don't have one, and if you want you can go to a Christian school where they have religious classes, they just don't want required teaching of religion in publicly funded schools.I dis agree with the atheist "no prayer in school" "no bibles allowed in school"
I should be able to read the bible all I want...
A ) That statement is dependent on the idea that America is great.By Ignorance I mean Ignorant to the fact Christians were the biggest influence in the Greatness of America
B ) So what if most of the founders were Christian? Every one of them was male too, should we require everyone to be a male?
Christianity happened to be the dominant religion in Europe, where most of the immigrants were coming from, so of course the British settlers would be Christian. It doesn't mean that the US would be worse if Christianity didn't exist.
C ) The First Amendment.
The US is a promised land for Christians? That's an idea I've never heard before, what makes you think it?If you want to be atheist Leave America.... This was supposed to be our promised land.
I'm a deist. I don't have any reason to believe in any organized religion, but something had to come before the Big Bang, so right now I do believe in some kind of higher power.
7Priest7
Posted 24 May 2007 - 04:19 PM
You're Posts are too long to read
I suppose you are doing for the hosting...
I collected that some parts of this posts are offensive...
The ppl being offensive are evil/immoral , thus I take no care to what they say...
Atheist if fine to me... "Judge Not Lest Ye be Judged"
I dis agree with the atheist "no prayer in school" "no bibles allowed in school"
I should be able to read the bible all I want...
Its just as much my right as the atheist right to ignorance(no offence meant)
By Ignorance I mean Ignorant to the fact Christians were the biggest influence in the Greatness of America
If you want to be atheist Leave America.... This was supposed to be our promised land.
Arkane
Posted 11 April 2007 - 03:59 PM
Killer008r
Posted 11 April 2007 - 03:18 PM
Athesim is the Absence of Beliefs... So there for if you have even the slighest belief in god you're not Atheist. Agnostic is believing that their could be somthing out there, some higher power, some after life. But since there's no visable proof, and since there's such a streach in the current bible there might not be a god, and their might not be an afterlife... (The couple jewish preists who wrote the first bible wrote the old testaments?)...
Arbitrary
Posted 11 April 2007 - 06:22 AM
Hmm.. But atheism has nothing to do with believing whether or not what will happen after death, rather, it's whether one believes in a god or not. Therefore, if you believe a god will cause something to happen after death, you aren't an atheist. However, if you believe that something that happens after death is independent of god, you are an atheist.I guess I can't honestly say I'm 100% atheist due to the fact that I do believe something will happen after, I just can't really say what it is.
Me, I am an atheist. I won't bother to explain why because that would just take up pages and pages and I'm sure a simple Google search would describe my reasons well enough.
Now, to the proof discussion. If you read any creationist books, they do offer a bunch of proof for the existence of god. For instance, I believe there's one argument that says that there had to be a higher being behind the creation of life because the molecules of the universe simply do not arrange themselves in a certain way so that living things will be created. Someone (god) had to be behind that arranging because according to them, that arranging was too perfect if it were random.
Nonetheless, there also exists a lot more proof against the existence of god. Therefore, I'm inclined to say I agree with the latter simply because more proof points there.
And frankly, another reason for my being atheist is this: I view religion as a crutch. For instance, if I had problems, I'd turn to religion to solve them, I'd turn to praying to god to help me. But I don't like this feeling of dependency on anyone (even if in reality I'd have to solve my own problems anyway), I just dislike that feeling. So I resort to being atheist to avoid that crutch. I want independence, and I don't ever want to feel like I'm helpless without this supernatural being.
No, the original bible would be the Old Testament. Frankly, I find the Old and New Testament Gods to be very very different from each other. The Old Testament god seems to be more of a vengeful creature than the New Testament one. So yeah, it is rather contradicting, in a sense.the original bible (the Koran if i'm not mistaken?)
I agree with Arkane wholly. Much of religion does teach morals, of which you do not need religion to learn. Just because someone is atheist does not mean they lack morals--that's a matter of what their parents instill into them.
