RE: What would it take for you to believe in God?
May 11, 2014 at 7:21 pm
(This post was last modified: May 11, 2014 at 7:24 pm by Ksa.)
(April 29, 2014 at 8:57 pm)te1148 Wrote: In your mind, is your primary reason for not believing in God moral, scientific, or something completely different?
There is no God. When the first man built the first house, his question was "who made this world?". That man did not understand that he was the first thing on that planet to ever make anything. He thought that someone must have built the Earth like he built that house. He couldn't understand how Earth could build itself. Why? Because the house couldn't have built itself. He had to build it. So someone had to build the Earth also.
But the ants build their houses too and they never wonder. They built their house because they can. It's just short sighting. The man could not think outside the box. He couldn't understand his place in this world, as he was the first living thing to have reason and intellect. But nature gave him the perfect mechanism to detect his purpose in this world: pain and pleasure. What hurts you is what you should avoid, and what pleases you, that is your purpose in this world. Very simple. No Bible or God required.
The problem was that, along evolution, some men had genetic mutations where they developed tolerance to well-being. Building a house was no longer sufficient after a while. They wanted more. They wanted to build a pyramid, to regain their bliss. It is from them that we inherited drug tolerance mechanisms. It is them who picked up the weapons and slayed men who lived in bliss without tolerance and without wanting more.
The problem with developing tolerance to well-being is that man kept wanting more and more, and what he got was never sufficient. After having sex with his wife for a year, he got to a point where he no longer felt anything. So he started chasing women to rape them and kill them. That was more exciting. But again after a year of doing that, he no longer felt anything, he needed a bigger excitement. So he committed even more atrocious acts against humanity.
Since this shitty species was the most violent and obnoxious, it prevailed among more pacifist species. And, in order to keep man's violence and thirst for power in check, religion was made. To sate his thirst and fill his hole. Telling him that he will go to heaven was a good way to make him die of old age without ever reaching bliss. Bliss that the old species of men that got exterminated could reach without any effort.
We, are those violent obnoxious men that constantly want more at the expense of everything and everyone else.
No God would want anything close to our kind populating this Earth. No God would be happy of creating us. No God would tolerate us.