
04-24-2008, 03:11 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: I'm on break...
Posts: 1,218
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I come from a very religious upbringing and as a boy I too believed in all the silly Bible stories... The burning bush that is never consumed, the talking snake, the chariot of fire riding into heaven, Moses magical parting the Red Sea, Moses made bread rain down from heaven too didn't he ??? Yes the Bible is slap full of mystical magical fairy tail stories that you would think that anyone in todays intelligent evolved society would never believe... And to think that this God is a supreme being that can do anything (but does nothing), knows everything (but says nothing), that is present everywhere (but is conveniently invisible)... And there are so many religions, over 450 I have read... I believe each of the beliefs comes solely from the imagination of the writer of the idea... All of them have one thing in common which is that the writer claims to have had some kind of direct contact with what he calls a God, thus saying that everything he has written is the undisputed truth... There are more versions of these so called direct God contact prophets than one can shake a stick at... And there all different than the others... Now I ask you, would a real God make so many conflicting prophecies that would cause religious wars and suffering throughout the world ??? This is not something I want to believe in... Well it seems that all religions claim that there is only one God, the only God, there God... All the others are just fairy tails, now thats strange don't you think ??? Well thanks to reason and education, religion is something I have given a lot of thought to, but finally rejected... I think the God concept and the religions that stem from that concept are basically just wishful thinking... People just don't want to accept the fact that when you die thats it... Religion is an attempt to appease the fear of the unknown. An attempt to explain life and death and where stuff comes from... And it would seem to me that any intelligent, objectively thinking person could see all this, but I guess not... And Bob I can certainly understand you getting your post mixed up... Just judging buy the enormous amount of email I receive from you on a regular basis... And I'm sure I'm not the only one that is subjected to your borodge of wit and humor... And I do enjoy it by the way, when I find the time to go threw it all... But I can see where you are probably talking to 2 or 3 people at the same time, while sending out emails and contemplating the meaning of life all at the same time, this will can catch up with you... Slow down Bob, one thing at a time,
the rest of those people will wait...
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