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- 12 Mar. 2013 08:28pm #1
- 12 Mar. 2013 09:39pm #2
I get pleasure out of educating people. It's not about whether or not they believe their religion is false. It's about their avoiding cognitive dissonance and ignorance when they decide to not only dedicate their lives to something, which they by all means have the right to do for any reason, but attempt to push it onto other people through social and legal repercussions.
Abortion is debated because your God says so. Homosexual marriage is illegal because your God says so. Our entire judicial and rehabilitation systems are designed around the dichotomous religious system that people must be categorized into good or bad groups with the only means of transition being religious repentance, and I'm sorry, but that's just wrong. When ignorant beliefs have real world consequences, they cease to be just beliefs, and I cease not caring.
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Religion is fake. People themselves created the idea of religion as well as the idea of a god, or gods. They created "god" as someone to blame something on and reason with. They needed reasons for why certain things happen, the masses needed to be controlled. Therefore, god was created. You can easily prove god to be non-existant by science. This may sound ignorant but for any of you believing that some "big man up there in the sky" created everything we see and know, and that heaven awaits you at your death, that's simply preposterous. (Some people really do think this, my cousins in Texas are perfect examples.) Even be it you don't think it's a man. A woman, or a thing, whatever you thing it is. How can you possibly think that someone created everything we see and know?
Why I say religion is fake is because all and every single thing you believe can be proven false by scientific fact. What I would like to know is how and why anyone could possibly think a single person created all that you see and know. The world and the universe itself. How is that at all possible? How can you explain scientific theories like evolution(which are obviously true) to creationists? You don't. They simply don't use simple logic when they think of things like this. A lot of them will tell you evolution isn't real, it's false. And any answer they give you explaining how it doesn't exist, simply won't use logic at all. Perhaps they will cite their religious text. The bible says the earth is 6000 years old. As stupid as this sounds, a lot of people actually believe it. You can really use simple logic (not science at all) to prove god does not exist. You can also use simple logic to prove practically everything any religion says is true to be false.
Think about this:
-Christians believe their God is omniscient and knows everything, including everything that has happened and will happen, as well as every thought your mind creates before you think it. If that's the case, there is no "free will."
-They also believe their God is omnipotent, and can do anything. Problem is, if their God can do anything but doesn't lift a finger to stop all the disasters, massacres and wars that have happened, are happening now and will happen in the future, their God is also a psychopath who enjoys watching our misery.
-However, if the Christian God is not omniscient or omnipotent... well, in that case their God is not a "god" and doesn't exist.
I'm not saying you're religion is bad, or evil that you believe in it. But it is fake, in my opinion at the least. You believe in whatever you want, I'm not trying to change how you believe, I'm simply telling you what I do. Do what you want.