RE: Why do you believe in god?
April 6, 2012 at 11:58 pm
(This post was last modified: April 7, 2012 at 12:00 am by C Rod.)
(April 6, 2012 at 9:31 pm)Bgood Wrote:(April 5, 2012 at 11:25 pm)C Rod Wrote: I take the bible as a story. I accept the views expressed by Jesus. Which reasons expressed by Jesus would you like me to share? Or why do i accept Jesus' views over some other religious views?
If the bible is your one and only source of ethics, wisdom and inspiration, then you must be a very shallow, short-sighted and boring individual.
Also, How do you reconcile Christianity's violent history, anti-intellectualism and rampant corruption with childish stories in the bible?
Everything "moral" that Jesus supposedly said is taught in every other religion yet just much more skillfully. Jesus is alot of hype.
Its not my "only source". Its a very valuable source specifically to me and how i view the world. I find that one of my best sources is my actual conscious but sometimes it is my worst. I enjoy the use of the word wonder and idea of emotional, powerful works of beauty and expression. I don't think Jesus was against that was he?
Violent history was for the development of Israel for the preparation of Jesus.
Anti-Intellectualism? The story is past down through a piece of literature. I don't think Jesus needs to tell you what you already can figure out for yourselves. Art and science are wonderful, Jesus doesn't need to say it to be true.
I haven't ever seen from any other that you should give away all your possessions or turn the other cheek. Also the fact that he doesn't get married and advises against it, is quite different. And the fact about family, its not just your immediate family you should love and care for and cherish, EVERYONE is family, make it the world and you will truly love.
(April 6, 2012 at 11:36 pm)Bgood Wrote:(April 6, 2012 at 11:27 pm)C Rod Wrote:(April 6, 2012 at 9:25 pm)FallentoReason Wrote:C Rod Wrote:Life will continue and i will live with the principles proposed by JesusWhat makes you think Jesus himself proposed anything? Did he ever write anything down?
Do you really want to argue that.
True that he never wrote anything down himself. It is also highly likely that Jesus never existed, at least not how and when the Unholy Bible says so. Plus, there is nothing wholly original about Jesus. He is a fictional hodge podge of lessr known Egyptian, Sumerian and mediterranean pagan gods. Watch Zeitgeist (30 min part on religion), educational and very entertaining.
It tells you want you to here, sound familiar. Most the stuff in zeitgeist is untrue.
"Its not what your looking at that matters, its what you see." -Henry David Thoreau
♪Oh, I get lost in my mind Lost, I get lost I get Lost in my mind Lost in my Mind Yes, I get lost in my mind Lost, I get lost I get lost I get lost Oh, I get♪ -The Head and the Heart
"You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.”- Frank Crane
♪Oh, I get lost in my mind Lost, I get lost I get Lost in my mind Lost in my Mind Yes, I get lost in my mind Lost, I get lost I get lost I get lost Oh, I get♪ -The Head and the Heart
"You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.”- Frank Crane
