(May 19, 2013 at 9:07 pm)Freedom Wrote: I had a chat with some Christians about prayer. I told them that prayer makes me wonder if I am creating God and the whole dialogue in my imagination. I asked them if they ever thought that maybe they are creating God in their imaginations.
They really don't believe they are doing that!
It's difficult to distinguish between one's imagination and the objectivity of a deity.
What do you think?
You have a pretty good point I think.
I've always found it strange that a religious people are aware that there were people in the past and people on earth now who don't worship the same god as them, they would consider them to be worshiping the wrong god, therefore they must be aware that humans do have the tendency to imagine gods, gods of all sorts. That's the way I see it anyway and that's just one of the things I'm aware that causes me to not believe.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
