Enlightened rants...

[WinterHold]

Personally; I discuss to find out if this faith I'm holding can be cracked. Until now, after years of discussions, it makes sense more than anything else.
Also I expect, based on the faith I carry, that the God I pray to will reward me with something big.

Really?

Hmmm.... so, why resign yourself to some belief in an unknowable thing instead of sticking purely with the known things and trying to find out what we can about the Universe we live in?... and, if possible, whatever lies beyond the Universe...
Until it is actually knowable, withholding belief seems to me to be most intellectually honest position.


Tell me, concerning that reward you expect... why would you expect to be rewarded merely for blindly believing what others told you about that god?
Do you think a hypothetical god that made mankind into the thinking reasoning intelligent beings that we are would be happy if we just mindlessly followed what some people wrote or said about it?

So many facts in this life are believed in and taken for granted, without anybody actually seeing them.
Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Air, Gravity...etc. The list extends; but the point is that if something's effect is undeniable, one tends to believe it's there.

Science call it "cause and effect". That gives birth to the "argument from design" which I, and so many other theists believe in.
To some, the effects are an deniable reference to a cause.

I believe what Mohammed said about that cause being "God".
You don't. But does that give you the right to discuss something that you didn't read? that makes you quite biased. it's a matter of perspective when you think about it; on the most basic of levels: there is a design. Some say it's created, some say it's not. I say it's created. Case closed.