There is more than one way to heaven.

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(I answered 'No' BTW... as your question was to me, and this is my belief)

Your god is truly a bastard

Cite cause

Well, just why we are on topic:

Your God would allow someone to be born, raised and die under the faith of another religion, of which the standard of evidence is exactly the same as your own, with no reasoning that can possibly be applied to make one religion more valid than any other, only to sentence them to an eternity of suffering for not being born into the right religion!

That is why i think your God is a bastard, amongst many other reasons.

I know you guys were just joking around and I didn't mean to jump in. Don't think I was offended, if anything I was just fishing for some conversation to keep me awake. However ...

Religion is a man-made construct based on something imperceptable and thus is falible to human standards. I feel all religions are equally in-valid. An eternity of suffering could be as simple as the nothingness prescribed by many people's beliefs here. If cold is the absence of heat. If light is the absence of dark then hell could be right here where we make it, it could be nothing or it could be the absence of God's love (in whichever form you get it).

So what god do you believe in. Tell us a bit about him, give us an idea of what you think god is.

see http://atheistforums.org/thread-2461-page-2.html

So where does love, life, morality, Jesus and the afterlife fit into your photon emitting energy-ball god idea?

I would say morality is a construct deriving from the natural instincts of communal, upwardly mobile creatures that evolved into us. The need for survival when you lose your claws logicaly leads to development of other resources.
I would surmise life comes from an occurance that created matter in the universe and set into motion the events that led to our evolution.
I could reason that love is just another communal construct but I don't love that way, so I'm not sure where love comes from other than an outside source. I'm sure you'll love to tear that one up.

Is it just me or is "worshipping a giant photon emitting energy-ball god" just a fancy way of saying that you worship the sun?

Rhizo

I was leaning more along the lines of "worshipping a giant photon emitting energy-ball god is just a fancy way of saying IMCRAZY :|"

I really ought to read the thread this idea originated from. I genuinely don't wish to sound condescending when I say "this should be interesting".

I've never studied sun worship so I'll have to look into that. However if sun worship is the worshiping of our sun it isn't compatible with my current belief. God by my definition is a non-physical representation of something outside the universe and that jump would not be possible by that definition. I might be crazy, but I'm ok with that.