Religion does not answer modern questions do you agree therefore, the French, Germans and Danes elected atheistic agnostics to power whoever does not agree with this is a savage
Beyond knowing the peculiar of one's faith if they have one, not really. Sure people may claim to know their deity, but the ones who ever say they have conversations with them usually get medicated and/or confined.
When I go to bed at night and awake in the morning, I don't wonder about the French, Germans, or Danes. I consider the charity of the living God in my having life and the course of my life, especially in light of my bad behavior. Sometimes I think of all those who preceded me since Adam and Eve, that I might be. And other times, of the wondrous world into which I was born, and all the people and sacrifices made by countless others to bring this world about. It is dizzying. But always my thoughts return to God, to his kindness in knowing me, such that I might know him sufficiently. His spirit filled my cup. Now I have no hunger or thirst for other philosophies, religions, or Gods of man. There is a virtue in turning away religion, because you don't know which one or if they all carry poison to your soul. On the other hand, stodginess can be its own process of mummification, surrounded by your possessions to attend you in the underworld, unpoisoned by religion but no less dead, even while you live. I realize that when we die our life ceases. But it seems incongruous to say that we cease too, and thus know nothing as if we are no more than our bodies. Are the intellectually challenged such as myself, or the lame lesser people? It is a leap of faith to make that assumption, and is almost suicidal in spirit or to our own detriment. Is that what one must believe in following a life of disbelief....sort of a death oath? Why can't life be a means of passage rather than a sentence to damnation? How is God any sillier than no God. We weren't here before we were. Now we are. How does that square with proof of God. I wasn't, then poof, I was. First there was no me. Then there I was. There was no proof of me. Then there was. This an impossibility in Atheism which says that without proof of God, it is a fable which cannot be, never was, and never will be. Yet here we all are, like quail born running. It can't be, never was, and never will be. Well, duh. Here we are. We weren't and now we are. I know that God lives because he sent his spirit to me and I remembered his spirit. First he wasn't, then he was forever. I had merely forgotten him.
its always the same problem with you. I agree with sentence #1 and I see how sentence #2 follows from sentence #1. Then you get to sentence #3 and totally **** up the entire OP post with a trolling sentence that does not follow logically from the other two, and is clearly designed to be divisive and explosive to the reasonable discussion you set up earlier. You destroy any hope of a rational and moderate discussion, and you do it intentionally. Its the kind of thing the 'other side' is often accused of doing.
Can we please stop this bot from starting a million pointless threads? If its meant to stimulate conversation, it is doing the oppsoite. I left this subforum for half a year because of this bot.
