Papapup... You are comparing two different things my friend.
Parents punish their children so thye can behave in the future, god punishes us so we can.... Actually I have no sodding idea why, what ultimate purpose will it serve to torture billions of souls for eternity, when eveything is...
Bzzzzz, wrong, at least for Islam and Christianity. I'm an ex-muslim, and I read alot about christianity.
In both, the only people who gets out of hell are the believers of the respective religion. Satan, atheists, and even the majority of other religions' followers have a permenant visa for...
I use this whenever someone tries to talk me into an abrahamic relegion.
Sure it can use more organization, but what about the core concept.
A- God by definetion is neither an idiot, sadist, nor is he a masochist. God is also omniscient.
B- God is the most merciful being in the universe...
This is interesting, I mean I WAS going to post something about this after we are done here...
What if there IS some sort of a god who doesn't give a rat's foot about us?
This puts us in a weird situation... If we can say a god makes no sense in some aspects -at least for us-, then how on earth are we supposed to believe in him, or in any of his prohets, massenges, revelations, you name it...
Are you suggesting that a belief of god should arise as a hypothisis...
You totally got me wrong, my bad.
I meant whenever the matters of religion proves to be contradictory and illogical, theists lean towards faith and ditch reasoning...
Arrrgh... For the love of pancakes... This is far beyond my daily dosage of reason, if I continue any further I think I'll brick my brain...
JK =p But then, this means there exist some illogical "things" in real life?
Nice enough, but then why do you have faith?
I can't get the hangs of using logic only when it's convenient and then abandon ship into faith once things become problamatic.
You are taking this too far my friend. I'm an Arab and believe me, I know how horrendous stereotypes can get.
Yes, I'm anti theist, but I try to stay as open minded as possible, and again I do state that my convection came from my personal experience.
I'll drop it here, because discussing this...
Well, maybe if I stated why am I asking it will become more clear..
I want to know how to approach the subject of god and religion, in order to sort all the mess up in my head.
So, I want to know if I should think about it logically, or somewhat different -devil knows how, though-?
I'm a...
I'm not trying to imply stereoptypes here, but, every single person who tried to persuade me into any kind of religion, tried to explain how his/her religion is the one that makes sense, and tried to attack other's logically, just to fail miserably in explaining certain aspects, and retreat to...
Ok, I think a god that demands worshiping should make sense, so he/she/it can be trusted, and for the promises made -whatever might they be- be reliable?
Or maybe not? I mean, from a theistic point of view, what constitutes what is logical and what is not?
Is logic a mere delusion we created...
What I'm asking here is NOT whether the concept of god makes sense or not, but rather should he/she/it?
I did a little search on the internet, and couldn't manage to find a discussion about this -then again I have the atention span of a chair's leg, so 15 minutes later I found myself reading...