| Suicide Silence – Unanswered Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| Suicide Silence – Unanswered Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Good reply bro. I'm a devout atheist, but appreciate your opinion. However as for your last line, Pascal's Wager doesn't really have any legs in my opinion. Why waste your life on something that most likely is not true just "in case"? You realise there have been over 2500+ recorded Gods believed by mankind. It's such a huge chance. They have found tribes of people who have never encountered other civilisation. These tribes had never experienced Christianity and likely wouldn't. Does their geographical location mean they do not deserve to enter heaven? Logic is waaaaaay against you. |
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| Suicide Silence – Unanswered Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Firstly, Atheism and Satanism are two different things. Secondly, are you really that insecure about your beliefs that you need to take joy out of your imagined perishing of those who don't believe in your God? I can only imagine the sadness you must have in your life to make you think so negatively. Believe it or not, you're an Atheist in regards to the other 2500+ Gods that mankind has believed in. Some people just go 1 God further. Peace my brother and enjoy your imaginary friend |
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| Darkest Hour – No God Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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And just adding to that. There are about 6 major religions, but apparently millions of different religions in total with different belief systems. Most believe their God is the only God and it's the only way to get saved. I'd rather live my life believing in humanity and myself than waste it on a chance that is about as low as winning the lottery. Want to make a different for your brothers and sisters of the world? Want to be a good person? Go donate to the less fortunate. Go and volunteer. Give blood. Help people. Putting your hands together and asking an invisible spirit to do it for you, is not productive. You think you're doing good, but you're just showing laziness. Didn't Jesus say God had an (unchangeable) plan? Just remember, that's just my opinion. I don't know the answer, but neither do you. |
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| Darkest Hour – No God Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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No, actually what you're saying is that they should believe in god out of fear if they are about to die. Departing peacefully doesn't mean they had peace with Christ, it means they had the delusion and ignorance that made them at peace with themselves. The brain is a very powerful thing. It's very simple. NOBODY knows whether there is 1 "God", 1000000 Gods or none at all. NOBODY! ALL organised religions have incredibly flawed theories, holy books and attitudes that are incredibly self-centered. Read the history of your own religion with a critical eye and you may discover how ridiculously flawed, and often hypocritical it is, for yourself. Most religious people have not read their holy books. They're not aware of their history. They pick and choose what to follow. Premarital sex? Abortion? Homosexuality? They'll pretend they didn't hear it. There is a great correlation with intelligence and belief in a deity. Religions all believe they are the be all and end all but what about people of other religions? Are they condemned by your Christian God just because they were never exposed to Christianity? What about the lost tribes of the amazon, who never had any outside interaction with other humans or tribes. They were known to create their own religions and gods based on the sun, and other things they saw in their environment. I read about one lost tribe who were visited by an exploring Westerner once. When he returned years later, he realised he had become their God and they built a religion based around this man saving them. Are they not good people who should be 'saved' because they were born into an environment with no Christian influence at all? And hell, if you are really open-minded why don't you read a book by say, Christopher Hitchens? 'God Is Not Great'. Phenomenal argument from a very well educated man. Atheism is very simple. It's not necessarily a belief that there is no God. It is a belief that by using all the evidence, all the little factors and all the history, there MOST LIKELY isn't the God that religious people believe in. Or that "God" isn't what we think it is. I am a born again (agnostic) atheist and there are so many conflicting sectors of Christianity who all believe they know the answer. Even when the "answers" conflict with known evidence/science. Ever wonder why the passages in the Bible reflect the attitudes at the time? It's a man-made book. Religion is blatantly man-made. Ever wonder why the story of Jesus in the bible was an almost EXACT ripoff of the story many Gods and messiahs that came for thousands of years before hand? How can you honestly believe in a book written 70 years after Jesus' death by people who didnt even know him? What about all the translations, all the changes, all the lost passages that were removed from the bible? If something like that was written today, it would be thrown in the trash for being so unsupported. What about the fact that of all the historians living in the area where Jesus lived, at the same time, had ZERO recording or recollection of this man? Christianity, like other religions, has no legs. It fills the void that people have in their lives when they desparately want to understand why we don't know much about the world and why we are here. It's a comfort for the fearful. An argument that is so childish and basic that is apparently cannot be argued. Religion is for people who don't understand morality. People who are in jail. People who need something to follow to become better people. I don't need that. I know how to be a good person. I don't need a false comfort. I'm perfectly happy with who I am and believe I am a good person. I've been on both sides of the fence, and I am MUCH happier that I now have the belief that this will probably be my only life and I should live it on my feet, rather than my knees. If there is a spirit out there who created the world and who gauges us on how we act, then it's very simple, treat others how you would like to be treated. Forget the arrogant religious brown nosing and just be a good person. Not a good person because you are scared of death or hoping for a magical 2nd life, but be a good person because you ARE a good person! |
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