More like if you guys read one, you'd see why there are so many Atheists.
More like "If you guys read the Bible, you'd learn about it".
There is no 'see'. I'm Christian myself, and I think the bible is trash, or, at least, a good part of it.
God does karmic back-flips as he offs people in one spot and saves them in another, and it all screams on my bullstuff meter. With oh so many years since its compilation, and every edition correcting, adding, editing and clarifying, the original document is long lost. I think it is simply up to the person to determine the goals or merits of whatever religion they see and join one if they want to, based on that.
There is no god.
If there was one, why the hell would he make people like trainman31, or Green BH?
Just think.
You've stumbled and just called GreenBH's and Trainman's mothers god. Unless you want to subscribe to the 'preplanned' belief that god planned everything as it happened. I mean, that's ridiculous.
What next, god himself came and spawned GreenBH? People and mistaken free will has children, not god. God doesn't go and make a baby in a woman, we do a pretty good job of it ourselves. When you put your hand in a blender, god hasn't just 'taken your hand from you', you've gone and shredded a perfectly good hand. Don't blame god.
i was talking about present time, because that's what he sounded like he was saying. However, religion did play a role in teaching MORALS and being a good person. If you disobeyed god you were punished eternally. It acted like a backup to keep some people in line as a governmental point of view, though it was not initially intended for that purpose. (i'm just talking mainly about christianity.)
Well sort of. Religion as a core of society has also happened, although it is largely irrelevant now, in most 1st world countries.
I wouldn't blame religion. Man undoubtedly saw a way to use the concepts in the bible and the existing religion to moderate a country, and I would blame the man, not the faith. Its not my area of expertise. I'd pursue a historian.
