(November 17, 2009 at 4:54 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: It's quite the opposite - the reasoning for God requires that there be no proof. Belief requires intelligence because what use is intelligence when working out the blatantly obvious? ..none. No intelligence is needed to work out what we already know. Intelligence is needed to work out what we don't know.
Belief necessitates faith. No one can know if God is real. The practice of faith is life giving.
Doing something selfless is accepted to make you feel good. It may also hurt. It's life giving. Selfishness is life destroying. It's putting your own needs at the forefront despite the needs of others.
But the bable fish is a dead give away isnt it.....
So the fact that there is no proof is in religions favour!
Whoever sold you that crock of shit is the best damn salesman in the world.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.