(June 13, 2010 at 2:00 pm)ecolox Wrote: Jesus is supposidely the closest thing to God that humanity has seen.The closest thing? Do you not believe that jesus IS god? I thought you christians don't believe in more than one god.
Quote:If you determine through testing that belief in God results in positive reactions through hardship and other belief systems fail, then we'll at least know that belief in the "true God" is useful/beneficial for the human race.There are some mild personal comforts that having a god belief can give people, just like any other sort of belief in an imaginary friend. That doesn't make the belief true though. Anyways, there are way too overwhelming a number of negative reactions compared to those mildly positive ones. Those negative reactions, like slaughter, laws against nonharmful things, etc, affect us nonbelievers (and different-believers) as well as you believers. If only you guys would at least keep it to yourselves, we'd all get along so much better, you know. Also, why would a loving god who wants positive reactions do it with a prerequirement of suffering? Creepy personality alert. Danger Will Robinson, danger!
I'm really shitty at giving kudos and rep. That's because I would be inconsistent in remembering to do them, and also I don't really want it to show if any favouritism is happening. Even worse would be inconsistencies causing false favouritisms to show. So, fuck it. Just assume that I've given you some good rep and a number of kudos, and everyone should be happy...