(September 5, 2010 at 11:44 pm)AngelThMan Wrote: But it could also be God, couldn't it?It's actually much more likely your own brain. (There are studies that actually go to some length to prove that - it's been scientificially proven that out of body experiences are even replicable in laboratory settings by stimulating a particular area of the brain.)
(September 5, 2010 at 11:44 pm)AngelThMan Wrote: A lot of atheist tell me that they accept that there could be a God, but they don't believe in him because there's no evidence he exists. So let's, for argument's sake, say that God does exist. In that case, couldn't it have been God that I experienced rather than my own feelings? Atheists who think there could be a God should also be able to accept that what I experienced could've been God. Right?I accept that there are beings that could certainly be godlike. Humans are even godlike in many ways in stark contrast to the human condition circa five hundred years ago - a relative blink of the geologic and evolutionary eye. There are probably even beings that would appear to be godlike to us.
However, the god of the bible does not exist. There is no evidence for his existence and that god, according to 'his word' in the bible, has left a definate footprint on the earth, or it would have if any of it actually happened as described in that book.
However, the Bible, like most religious texts, is several hundred pages of lies. We've proven that humans were not created in seven days, nor was the earth, the cosmos, and certainly any of the other life on this planet, as described via creationism.
The actions god has taken in the bible have either never happened or the supernatural undertones were outright falsficiations.
If god does exist and he/she/it created the universe, then it still means the bible is wrong and all of our 'interpretations' of what god is and represents is still wrong and it still means that your 'ookie' feelings you think are attributable to god is more likely to be something your neurons are doing and not you connecting with some supernatural force that still doesn't exist.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
