Another shot at the theistic view:
follow this analogy: if a hold a ball at shoulder height and you let it go, it drops to the ground. Why? gravity of course. Gravity is the name we have given to the phenomenon of the attraction of objects with mass. But it is just a concept (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brans%E2%80%93Dicke_theory)
In the same way we could look at what theists describe as miracles. They created the concept of a god to describe things that are very unlikely to happen and have a advantaguous outcome. God is the concept in the minds of theists that atheists often describe as luck.
Gravity and God are equally real. Atheists simply call the latter by a different name: luck.
funnily enough, in the online gaming world luck is also starting to become a deity called RNGesus. Whenever luck is required in a game, gamers like to phraise to RNGesus for a good outcome. This is more to redicule religion than to become one, but it shows the point.
Up to this point i did only speak of god in the general sense, generalizing all religions. If we look at christianity in general however, Jesus comes in the picture. Was Jesus real? I prefer to believe that he did, though taken with a grain of salt. Yes he probably inspired many people because he was magnificent at telling stories, yes he gave people hope when there was none, but no he could not walk on water or turn water in wine. Spoken stories are always exagurated and metaphores, imaginary can get lost and taken literally. Jesus probably rose from the dead in the sense that some of his followers took his place and became just as good as him at inspiring people. However, this doesnt take away that Jesus was the word of God, it justs binds him, just like all of us, to the laws of nature.
follow this analogy: if a hold a ball at shoulder height and you let it go, it drops to the ground. Why? gravity of course. Gravity is the name we have given to the phenomenon of the attraction of objects with mass. But it is just a concept (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brans%E2%80%93Dicke_theory)
In the same way we could look at what theists describe as miracles. They created the concept of a god to describe things that are very unlikely to happen and have a advantaguous outcome. God is the concept in the minds of theists that atheists often describe as luck.
Gravity and God are equally real. Atheists simply call the latter by a different name: luck.
funnily enough, in the online gaming world luck is also starting to become a deity called RNGesus. Whenever luck is required in a game, gamers like to phraise to RNGesus for a good outcome. This is more to redicule religion than to become one, but it shows the point.
Up to this point i did only speak of god in the general sense, generalizing all religions. If we look at christianity in general however, Jesus comes in the picture. Was Jesus real? I prefer to believe that he did, though taken with a grain of salt. Yes he probably inspired many people because he was magnificent at telling stories, yes he gave people hope when there was none, but no he could not walk on water or turn water in wine. Spoken stories are always exagurated and metaphores, imaginary can get lost and taken literally. Jesus probably rose from the dead in the sense that some of his followers took his place and became just as good as him at inspiring people. However, this doesnt take away that Jesus was the word of God, it justs binds him, just like all of us, to the laws of nature.
