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And the church will no doubt go mad now, and claim it is a beast of Satan or something.
each have their place, questioning ones existence is imo a human quality, you could never prove that though unless you could read minds
animals and plants are different, mammals and fish have their differences, humans and chimpanzees have their differences, me and you have their differences
my take on things
I don't believe in religious education for children, but once they reach adulthood they can worship the Moon for all I care- so long as they don't try to impose their beliefs on others, which kind of has been a constant problem of most religions since man first walked the earth.
meaning thayt another difference between man and animals is ...man has always had a yearning for god/gods.
where does thatcome from?
The promise of life after death is also very comforting. The concept of ceasing to exist or never again seeing a loved one is not very attractive to most people.
That thankfully doesn't happen in much (though not all) of the world any more, but societies in most countries are still being imposed the beliefs of religious invidividuals and groups by various means... for instance laws banning you from doing certain activities or buying certain products that are considered "sinful".
Sorry. I didn't mean them, I meant the hardline Evangical Churches closer to the discovery, the US chaps with TV Shows. They probably want to say it is Satan trying to get into the US from the North.
I should actually state what church I mean in future. Thankfully out CoE is quite a good lot on most issues.
Or in other words all organised religion? Good.
The sad thing is the people who buy into this shit... and beleive it. Can't they see what it is or something?
Are you denying those events took and take place?
This is how you get people who are utterly convinced there is something wrong with homosexuality or premarital sex, how unbelievers are not worthy and 'God' wants you to kill them, and other such absurdities.
If you were to encounter an adult who had never been exposed to religious beliefs as a child, it would be all but impossible in the immense majority of cases to make them believe such things as fact. For the average adult will carefully think about such claims, apply logic and balance and reach the conclusion that it is bollocks. You really need to implant such thoughts in the mind at an early age for them to take hold and for the person to refuse to apply any logic or rational thought in later life to analyse such beliefs.
This is why religious teaching is child abuse.
How many of them ever really existed?
Quite. And wouldn't you be concerned about a bunch of men, running about places, with nothing... alone... one of whom claims to be the son of god?
So if Jesus came back to earth today... we'd lock him away, even if he is real.
Well there's no doubt a figure called Jesus existed and that he did have followers. Whether he did all those miracles is up for debate but the man existed as did his followers.
Maybe there'd be strong opposition to Jesus' presence and maybe he'd be seen as a threat to the ruling classes and maybe he'd be in physical danger from those who didn't like what he had to say to them - oh wait, he's already been and that already happened.
Is there?
Got some have ya?
Written testament. Books, scriptures etc etc. How can we prove anything pre 20th century? it's all handed down through writing and archielogical evidence.
the writtings of josephus mention him.
2000, 1000 or even 500 years ago men and women would be prepared to believe a great many things their descendants today simply wouldn't if presented with them for the first time.