Why?

[Rokcet Scientist]

It's all about blind submission. Fuck thinking.

An attitude not reserved for religion, but very applicable to politics as well. Like for the blind Obama supporters who support a president who has just loudly reconfirmed America's fascist Zionist fundamentalism by denying Palestine UN membership.

[Zen Badger]

If it's purpose you're looking for IATTA then that's exactly what the bible is about. I guess you missed that.

And that PURPOSE???

According to Revelations it is to sing the praises of god.... FOR. THE. REST. OF. ETERNITY!!!!!

Apparently god is massively insecure and needs constant reminders of how omnipotent he is

Compared to that... well at least hell would be intersting.

[KichigaiNeko]

Hell gets my vote!!

Revelations is a treatise from some drug fucked dude on crystal meth from my last reading of it

[fr0d0]

I think you nailed it Kitchie

[downbeatplumb]

Why?

Because!

[Faith No More]

Revelations is a treatise from some drug fucked dude on crystal meth from my last reading of it

Ah, Revelations. The bloody climax to an already violent collection of books. It's akin to a Clive Barker story written amidst a violent, psychotic episode.

The sick and twisted side of me gives it two thumbs up.

[medviation]

Hmmm... If there's a god and he's eternal, he would have created this universe and infinite other universes infinite times. Reason: He's one really bored, lonely god.

[Justtristo]

For sake of argument, let us assume that there is an all-powerful, all-intelligent entity that was the beginning of all that is and call this entity god.

Why did god create all this? Was he bored? Could not find anything else to do? What was he doing before this? When he gets tired of these toys, then what?

This is actually reason number one that I started on my path to atheism. I called it nonsense. Then as I grew older and adopted logic and reason, it went from nonsense to totally impossible.

(It was during my evolution to logic and reason that I started reading the bible on my own rather than the select 'pretty' stories. Man did that hurt!)

Well if you are a Trinitarian Christian you would say god created the universe and especially humanity as a bride for his "son". Seriously I am not making it up, because one of my guilty pleasures is listening and reading sermons by a preacher named John Macarthur. I remember him talking about this in one of his sermons.

You can read, listen and watch his sermons for free on this website http://www.gty.org/

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Hell gets my vote!!

Revelations is a treatise from some drug fucked dude on crystal meth from my last reading of it

Actually like the Book of Daniel it is a political commentary of sorts. The book of Daniel was likely written after the Maccabean Revolt (around 150 BCE) and Revelation during the reign of the Domitian (although it is likely set during the reign of Nero in order to make it prophetic). It is called making predictions after the fact.

The beast and the number 666 or 616 refer to Nero by the way, the beast was one of Nero's nicknames. Not to mention while the aristocracy hated him, the plebs loved him, which explains the whole the beast being loved by humanity thing in revelation quite nicely.

[frankiej]

Hmmm... If there's a god and he's eternal, he would have created this universe and infinite other universes infinite times. Reason: He's one really bored, lonely god.

Yeah, it is like a level builder on a game... You are never happy just making one good one...

You have to try some crazy ideas out.

[Faith No More]

You have to try some crazy ideas out.

I'm assuming that our existence is one of those crazy ideas.