What IS Religion?

[HellHound]

So this would mean if there was a god, he gave us free will just to make us kill ourselves?

Sick.

I don't understand why a "god" created something. I mean, so god makes everything because he's bored?

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[IkeTheGeneric]

I don't understand why a "god" created something. I mean, so god makes everything because he's bored?

Maybe it was part of his intergalactic duty.

Maybe he was lonely.

Maybe he's a ten year old kid with a science kit

[sir dooble]

So this would mean if there was a god, he gave us free will just to make us kill ourselves?

Sick.

That wouldn't be free will if he gave it us to kill ourselves, that would still be us being controlled.
If we were given free will, it allows us to do anything we will, including killing ourselves.

It's all a by product of freewill.

Maybe he's a ten year old kid with a science kit

And we are his giant potato alarm clock.

[Koopz]

Why did you make this topic, all it's going to create is a religion war.

[Rookie]

Why did you make this topic, all it's going to create is a religion war.

Because everyone wants to prove each other wrong when nobody gives a stuff anyway

[Messes]

I hate religion. Been to church once, never went back.
I especially think most things can be explained through logical scientific studies. There is no "Holy" creator or someone in the clouds who made the universe.

I have however thought that what if we were so small, including the universe, that we appeared as atoms to thing even bigger than the universe. Like we think atoms or cells are small, but we could be like that to beings bigger than we think. Get it kinda? Things just get bigger and bigger, or smaller, and to us a galaxy is massive, but in the big picture, light years for us are nanometers for things bigger than we have ever come to know?

Hurp, the Universe is quite strange.

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[IkeTheGeneric]

That wouldn't be free will if he gave it us to kill ourselves, that would still be us being controlled.
If we were given free will, it allows us to do anything we will, including killing ourselves.

It's all a by product of freewill.

Didn't we take free will from ourselves?

And we are his giant potato alarm clock.

I was thinking more along the lines of a spilt puddle of arsenic and some other chemical stuff

Why did you make this topic, all it's going to create is a religion war.

No, it won't. I'm not that bad at handling a topic.

Because everyone wants to prove each other wrong when nobody gives a stuff anyway

I actually never really cared about religion. It's just become an interesting topic.

[sir dooble]

Didn't we take free will from ourselves?

Depends on which religion you're referring to.
In Christianity, then yes, when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, then yes, we did.

I was thinking more along the lines of a spilt puddle of arsenic and some other chemical stuff

If I believed in a god, I'd like to think that our universe is a spectacular failure.
The Alarm Clock metaphor, of something useful, seems much more optimistic in this collosal scale, otherwise, what's the purpose of life?

[Rookie]

Depends on which religion you're referring to.
In Christianity, then yes, when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, then yes, we did.If I believed in a god, I'd like to think that our universe is a spectacular failure.
The Alarm Clock metaphor, of something useful, seems much more optimistic in this collosal scale, otherwise, what's the purpose of life?

Life would have no purpose without religion anyway

[IkeTheGeneric]

Depends on which religion you're referring to.
In Christianity, then yes, when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, then yes, we did.

No, I mean we took free will away from ourselves when rules and order was made.

It's not a bad thing to have laws, but it doesn't mean we are truly free.

If I believed in a god, I'd like to think that our universe is a spectacular failure.

Decent observation.

The Alarm Clock metaphor, of something useful, seems much more optimistic in this collosal scale, otherwise, what's the purpose of life?

If life had a purpose we would all be the same person.

Life would have no purpose without religion anyway

No, because with out religion, more people would like each other.

[SeventhSandwich]

I don't understand why a "god" created something. I mean, so god makes everything because he's bored?

Imagine you're floating in space and there is nothing.

You'd be bored bro.

[dkamm65]

hi



Yes I know "atheist" is spelled incorrectly. I didn't make the image.

[Rookie]

hi

That's pretty low based on the amount of people that actually are Christians.

[Mr.Interceptor]

Not this stuff again...

[Miga]

Not this stuff again...

I can't say I wasn't expecting another thread to pop up.