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Theists: Why do you love God?
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RE: Theists: Why do you love God?
(December 31, 2011 at 6:06 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:
(December 30, 2011 at 6:59 am)Welsh cake Wrote: The question perplexes me enough that I felt the need to discuss it. A question primarily aimed at theists, but non-theists can feel free to voice your informed-opinions on the topic matter.

Why do you love the God/deity you believe in? Why do you love a transcendental creator being that you cannot even interact directly with; that cannot show affection, comfort, or spend a moment of the day embracing to let each other know how you both feel?

I'm not talking about if God as a 'person' is worthy of love here, or deserves love. Across history there have been an abundance of detestable egoistical people, vile tyrants unworthy of love, who are loved all the time. I personally know a good few anti-socials who can't or won't reciprocate have yet still somehow won people's confidence and devotion, loved by the entire community, and mourned when they pass away.

I'm asking what your God has done for you to feel these emotions. Why do you feel compassion and kindness for a remote God yet not all of humanity that lives alongside you? What are your conditions for loving him/her/it?

Just why do you love your deity more than anyone else alive or dead?

Well, there are Gods to be loved, and Gods to be feared.
And why not, I mean?
Why do some people love, say, Britney Spears?

Are you implying that you love god because she wears very little clothing and sings well?
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is that so? can they interbreed? it's funny how animals who breed that are too different create hybrids which have no reproductive capability. what can we conclude from this?
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I have no idea if they can interbreed, and it doesn't matter. Only similar animals can interbreed- giraffes and deer are separated by enough evolution that I wouldn't be at all surprised if they couldn't, even if they share a common ancestor.


(December 31, 2011 at 7:52 am)chipan Wrote:
5thHorseman Wrote:So in other words you are ignorant to science and do not understand laws of nature and the simplicity of it?

no, there is no law of nature that states how order can be created from disorder.

5thHorseman Wrote:You choose to go with something that is far more complicated. Do you also believe the universe to be 10000yrs old?

no, it's not that i don't understand it, it's that it's so complicated it couldn't have just put itself together. does understanding how a car works allow you to come up with an explination on how it put itself together? and i believe the earth is around 6000 to 7000 years old. this is b/c i believe the literal creation story in the bible. there is no evidence to support a kind of animal changing to a different kind of animal. example: apes to humans, horses to giraffes.

Actually, there's a ton of evidence.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14...e-lab.html

You would find similar things all around, if you bothered to look.
(December 31, 2011 at 7:52 am)chipan Wrote:
5thHorseman Wrote:So in other words you are ignorant to science and do not understand laws of nature and the simplicity of it?

no, there is no law of nature that states how order can be created from disorder.

5thHorseman Wrote:You choose to go with something that is far more complicated. Do you also believe the universe to be 10000yrs old?

no, it's not that i don't understand it, it's that it's so complicated it couldn't have just put itself together. does understanding how a car works allow you to come up with an explination on how it put itself together? and i believe the earth is around 6000 to 7000 years old. this is b/c i believe the literal creation story in the bible. there is no evidence to support a kind of animal changing to a different kind of animal. example: apes to humans, horses to giraffes.

You think of order as a thing, when in fact it is not. Order is simply disorder that we can see and understand.

Think about that for a few minutes.
What falls away is always, and is near.

Also, I am not pretending to be female, this profile picture is my wonderful girlfriend. XD
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Theists: Why do you love God? - by Welsh cake - December 30, 2011 at 6:59 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by downbeatplumb - December 30, 2011 at 8:55 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by fr0d0 - December 31, 2011 at 5:52 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by Whateverist - December 31, 2011 at 2:58 pm
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by 5thHorseman - December 31, 2011 at 5:57 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by kılıç_mehmet - December 31, 2011 at 6:06 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by downbeatplumb - December 31, 2011 at 6:09 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by Aegrus - December 31, 2011 at 9:40 pm
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by Perhaps - January 1, 2012 at 4:08 pm
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by 5thHorseman - December 31, 2011 at 6:12 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by kılıç_mehmet - December 31, 2011 at 6:15 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by 5thHorseman - December 31, 2011 at 6:33 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by kılıç_mehmet - December 31, 2011 at 7:07 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by chi pan - December 31, 2011 at 7:20 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by Faith No More - December 31, 2011 at 7:56 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by downbeatplumb - December 31, 2011 at 7:57 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by 5thHorseman - December 31, 2011 at 7:30 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by chi pan - December 31, 2011 at 7:52 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by Ace Otana - December 31, 2011 at 8:24 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by 5thHorseman - December 31, 2011 at 8:05 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by chi pan - December 31, 2011 at 8:17 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by chi pan - December 31, 2011 at 8:29 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by Ace Otana - December 31, 2011 at 8:37 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by 5thHorseman - December 31, 2011 at 8:33 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by Welsh cake - December 31, 2011 at 8:52 am
RE: Theists: Why do you love God? - by fr0d0 - December 31, 2011 at 12:58 pm
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