God Thinks We Invented God
Normally, I'd only bring up the topic "Does God exist?" if we were lying on my living room floor, passing the bong around, but I'm making an exception for Morgan Freeman! The God who succeeded George Burns as our Earth God is the host of The Science Channel's "Through the Wormhole" ("Note to self, find a new title for my memoirs." - John Travolta) and in an upcoming episode they get into the existence of God. While talking to Morgan Freeman about the show, The Wrap asked him if he believes in God. Morgan got deep and said he thinks that God is something we invented so musicians would have someone to thank when they win awards and I'd have a name to take in vain to give my abuelita a reason to slap me in the mouth.
Did we invent God?
Yes.So there isn't a God up in the sky somewhere. We came up with God ourselves.
Well, here's a scientific question: Has anybody ever seen hard evidence? What we get is theories from our earlier prophets. Now, people who think that God invented us think that the Earth can't be more than 6,000 years old. So I guess it's a question of belief. My belief system doesn't support a creator as such, as we can call God, who created us in His/Her/Its image.Would you consider yourself an atheist, or agnostic?
It's a hard question because as I said at the start, I think we invented God. So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.
"Have we ever seen hard evidence?" Stop playing, MorFree! Look in the mirror and there's your proof. Is Morgan Freeman, who is obviously God in human form, trying to throw us off his trail or is he being extra bold? I would pray to God (aka an 8X10 glossy of Morgan Freeman hanging over my dresser) for guidance, but I don't know what to believe anymore! Just pass me the bong...
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Submitted by kate773 on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 2:03pm.
"I see the problem. You're confusing your opinion with fact."
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Actually, what I said is entirely supported by facts. I will provide sources if you wish. Nothing I stated is an opinion, other than the opinion that I believe facts over fiction.
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"Secondly, you're assuming I feel "inferior" because of something some Internet stranger said."
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I'm assumed there was a feeling of inferiority because you used the word "condescending", which, by definition, assumes that I was expressing a superior attitude. I wasn't. But if you felt that I was, I am left to assume the former.
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"The attitude of "I'm going to say whatever I want and if you take offense that's your problem" is pretty funny too. It must be nice to not feel any responsibility for the things you say."
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I can not be held responsible for what YOU feel when you read something I write. It is YOUR choice to become upset, angered, sad, happy, excited, etc about things you read on the internet. I am not forcing you to feel anything at all. Nor was I trying to provoke it.
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"you know damned well there are people here who DO believe in God/religion and you really expected no one to challenge you? Bullshit."
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I didn't expect to go unchallenged at all. Clearly, I have checked back here a few times to see what was said in the meantime. And here I am, defending my right to share the facts about mythical beings being retold, reinvented, renamed, and regurgitated for thousands of years. Facts. Mythra. Look it up. He is the basis of the Jesus story. One of HUNDREDS. Facts.
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"People don't like to be told their belief system is wrong whether it's a strong belief in God or a strong belief there isn't one."
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I really don't care what people like to be told or not told. I am not here to tell people what they LIKE to hear. I commented on a story that I related to, concerning a subject that I am passionate about. I don't like being told that Jesus Is Lord on bumper stickers every day, or that Hell is for sinners, or that my loved one will perish because they might be gay. I don't LIKE hearing that, but I have to. Every day. All the time. All over the world. And I reserve the right to share the facts about the origins of our modern myths, regardless of what the belief systems around me might or might not be.
Submitted by oceanlover998 on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 1:03am.
On the other hand, it's like saying we're the ones who fuck up, not god. So, god gets away without any blame?
Submitted by oceanlover998 on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 1:03am.
...my thoughts and knowledge about God are pretty clear...He Exists...He lets us F*** up because he gave us Free Will...He will intervene to save this World...eventually...
...I don't...however...believe or put any credibility in anything Morgan Freeman has to say since it was reported he was dating his step-granddaughter...
...it's very easy to spit out venom at God and religion...especially when it takes attention away from your own actions...
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Submitted by FullMetalJackass on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 1:30pm.
Submitted by kate773 on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 12:52pm.
Wow. This just couldn't be more condescending. I don't give a shit what you believe or don't believe. But when you talk down to people that way you don't do you or your cause any favors.
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Condescending? Actually, I was just stating facts. If those facts make you feel inferior by reading them, that is not my issue or responsibility.
Talking down to who, exactly? Again, I stated facts, and I directed those facts into the ether, not AT anyone. If I had started off by saying something like, "Listen up you ignorant Christians!!" then maybe you would have some sort of point. But I didn't, so you don't. Again, if you feel personally chided by anything I said, that burden is on you alone.
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I see the problem. You're confusing your opinion with fact. Again, you think religion/God is a made up joke. Fine. But that is your opinion. Whether you want to admit it or not.
Secondly, you're assuming I feel "inferior" because of something some Internet stranger said. If my self worth was that fragile I'd be living in a refrigerator box somewhere. I don't feel "personally chided" by anything you've said because I take nothing here personally. I was stating my OPINION that you came off as incredibly condescending to people who do have religious beliefs, which is an opinion I formed after reading your post. But if we're going to make opinions fact, then I guess it's a fact that you were.
The attitude of "I'm going to say whatever I want and if you take offense that's your problem" is pretty funny too. It must be nice to not feel any responsibility for the things you say. You hide behind the idea that you made your statement to the "ether". Ya, no you didn't. You made a very definitive statement about your feelings on a very inflammatory subject on a comment board where you know damned well there are people here who DO believe in God/religion and you really expected no one to challenge you? Bullshit. BTW- I didn't say where I came down on this other than to say that I don't care what you or anyone else believes, but I don't like the condescension on either "side". People don't like to be told their belief system is wrong whether it's a strong belief in God or a strong belief there isn't one.
Submitted by SANS FARDS on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 1:24pm.
I didn't say that art proves the existence of God; the point I was trying to make is that religion doesn't only inspire the bad side of humanity.
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Well, point taken. I just find it a little creepy (but I try not to feel this way) when Christians or anyone of any faith is nice to me because they see me as a "sister" in creation. Or as "created" by their god. I have a friend my age who I get these vibes from that says she is Christian, and she feels it is her duty to love everyone the same and not judge. She is giving her viewpoint through god all the time. Part of me really hopes that she's being my friend because she would do it regardless of her faith (her OWN personality) - but I wonder. That does not have much to do with religiously-inspired hymns, and I LIKE listing to some of these said hymns. But when folks take things literally, hmm..
Submitted by Sweetas on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 12:57pm.
Yet, it isn't very pretty when, amid thousand, perhaps millions of examples throughout the history of religious/politically-influenced war, that children are shot at close range in Syria, just the other day? Not one or two, but The families of these children shouted in answer to their attackers, "We're unarmed, yes!" Then they stomped through. How it is that god has "got this"? If your answer lies somewhere with the notion that we're just a "fallen" species who acts against god, I still fail to understand how innocents are trampled on. Oh, right. It happened in the Old Testament, too.
On another note, where did your god come from? If you can say he had no beginning, why cannot scientists say this about the universe at large? In reference to abiogenesis - the word "begets" is not scientific. There is a whole branch of study out there dedicated to the beginnings of life on an early earth. Such as self-replicating structures. There is also evidence that Mars had water, which might thus mean the capacity for certain bacteria or cells to thrive. Does that mean only god could put it there?
Submitted by Anonymouse73 on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 1:24pm.
Fun question: if life springs from life, where did a creator come from?
Maybe we're all just living in a dream that someones having. :P
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Alright if we're gonna go all Inception with this...Joseph Gordon-Levitt can bust in and save me at any moment. Or Ken Watanabe. Or Cillian Murphy.
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"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours."
- Yogi Berra
Submitted by SANS FARDS on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 1:24pm.
I didn't say that art proves the existence of God; the point I was trying to make is that religion doesn't only inspire the bad side of humanity.
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Whatever "positives" religion may have inspired are squashed immediately by the horrors religion has caused over the millennia. The murder and oppression of millions upon millions of people in the name of mythical beings do not make a handful of artwork and philosophies morally "worth it". That is what my particular moral compass seems to indicate, anyway.
Submitted by Anonymouse73 on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 1:20pm.
"I guess the Sistine Chapel, Handel's Messiah, all of the European cathedrals, Greek and Roman temples, and pretty much the vast majority of art and music since--well--antiquity don't count as progress, then?"
No. Not really. How is it "progress" to build edifices or write music in honor of an invisible being which may or may not exist?
Are they beautiful edifices/songs? Of course! Are they representative of some sort of progress in human thought or spirituality? Not particularly. I don't even consider them to be "progress" in the artistic realm, b/c that's assuming that everything that came before the Renaissance wasn't up to snuff.
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I think a lot of critics would disagree. Particularly in music; the great composers of the European tradition can directly trace their style to medieval church music and Gregorian chant. If the concept of God didn't exist, would Bach and Beethoven have composed their pieces about something else? I don't know...possibly. Or maybe Western music and art would have evolved into something else altogether, around some other form of inspiration. I used the term "progress," as it relates to art, to mean new ideas and forms that are more complicated and advanced than that which came before, but I suppose that term is subjective.
The point I was trying to make is that religion inspires lot of what's good in the world, in addition to a lot of the bad.
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"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours."
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Submitted by kate773 on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 12:52pm.
Wow. This just couldn't be more condescending. I don't give a shit what you believe or don't believe. But when you talk down to people that way you don't do you or your cause any favors.
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Condescending? Actually, I was just stating facts. If those facts make you feel inferior by reading them, that is not my issue or responsibility.
Talking down to who, exactly? Again, I stated facts, and I directed those facts into the ether, not AT anyone. If I had started off by saying something like, "Listen up you ignorant Christians!!" then maybe you would have some sort of point. But I didn't, so you don't. Again, if you feel personally chided by anything I said, that burden is on you alone.
Submitted by No Words on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 12:55pm.
Since we're coming out of the closet, atheist, here - since I don't believe in the God of the bible, which is what the definition of an atheist has become. I don't believe in that God, but it doesn't bother me if other people do, because everyone is entitled to their own beliefs. ______________________________________________
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♫ Now you come around, signifying woman, you don't wanna let me ride.♫
Fun question: if life springs from life, where did a creator come from?
Maybe we're all just living in a dream that someones having. :P
Submitted by Andrei on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 12:44pm.
Submitted by SANS FARDS on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 12:31pm.
Relics like the Sistine Chapel don't prove god. Michelangelo may not have even believed in god. But he could not say this, more than likely, for fear of prosecution. That was where the money was at the time - religious causes.
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I didn't say that art proves the existence of God; the point I was trying to make is that religion doesn't only inspire the bad side of humanity.
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"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours."
- Yogi Berra
"I guess the Sistine Chapel, Handel's Messiah, all of the European cathedrals, Greek and Roman temples, and pretty much the vast majority of art and music since--well--antiquity don't count as progress, then?"
No. Not really. How is it "progress" to build edifices or write music in honor of an invisible being which may or may not exist?
Are they beautiful edifices/songs? Of course! Are they representative of some sort of progress in human thought or spirituality? Not particularly. I don't even consider them to be "progress" in the artistic realm, b/c that's assuming that everything that came before the Renaissance wasn't up to snuff.
For the record, I'm an agnostic who does believe that life doesn't stop after death...and I *only* believe this b/c I've seen the proof w. my own two eyes and came to this conclusion after exhausting any other logical/scientific conclusions.
I get what Mr. Freeman is saying: we created god in our own image and not vice versa.
I can dig it.
I can also dig the Hindu idea what each one of us is part of the larger Consciousness. It would explain so much about the strange connections we all have. However, it's only a thought I entertain. Believing something to be true isn't proof.
parkerj> With all sincerity, why do I care if that confuses Bible-believing folks? Sometimes I think people need a little shake-up in their beliefs. It's not good to think completely inside the box. For one thing, the idea of a "god" or "goddess" didn't originate from any spiritual text.
I belong to the church of 'Whatever Floats Your Boat.' As long as you're happy with your life and don't hurt anyone in the process, it's all good.
I don't believe in God the Religion, because we have thousands of years of history as straight up example on what religion is and does (one usually not much better than the other).
And for those agnostics who continue to say God can be some super natural power or force or ether surrounding us, well its so stretching the meaning of God from what its supposed to be in the Bible / Koran , etc, that at some point saying a God exists becomes not only meaningless but confusing to those who believe in the God of the Bible. I admit I'm still in that camp because I think its natural for social animals to believe in something greater than. Thats what social animals respond to.
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i abstain from all aspects of religion. it's the most ridiculous made up shit. to even call myself "atheist" is to acknowledge religious shit as if it's even worthy of being opposed. lmfao.
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"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
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http://youtu.be/p0mHxtpoq2c
*peddles off in a mint '88 yugo*
I believe in God, but not religion. God doesn't need to you go to war and kill other people for Him, He's got this.
I am a science geek but consider this: per science, there is no such thing as spontaneous generation. Life begets life, period. So how did that first blue green algae spring forth from ingredients? You can't have it both ways.
I suppose one of the greatest mysteries of the universe is why anyone would care what morgan freeman thinks about god.
Atheist here, but study Buddhism just because I love the tenets and the practice. I definitely wish more people would come out of the closet on this...there are more of us out here than you think.
Submitted by FullMetalJackass on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 10:56am.
Mr. Freeman, I didn't think I could love you any more deeply, but you have taken it to another level, baby.
Just in case anyone was wondering: There is no god. And the gods we are aware of in popular myths are the same gods that have been reinvented over, and over, and over again since the dawn of civilization. This fact does not mean that they are more likely to be real. It is simply a testament to the tendency of the human mind to create the answers where there are none.
I hope more people come out of the disbelief closet. Superstition and religious belief are a scourge upon the earth. They are the mind diseases that have stunted our moral, technological, and scientific progress since the Dark Ages.
Bye Hunnehs!
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Wow. This just couldn't be more condescending. I don't give a shit what you believe or don't believe. But when you talk down to people that way you don't do you or your cause any favors.
I really don't care what people believe. But I get annoyed when people say I am an atheist and thus close-minded. I am an atheist and educated and an observer. Do I get mad at bullies who make fun of those who believe in god? Yes. And vice versa. It really doesn't lead anywhere.
Submitted by SANS FARDS on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 12:31pm.
Relics like the Sistine Chapel don't prove god. Michelangelo may not have even believed in god. But he could not say this, more than likely, for fear of prosecution. That was where the money was at the time - religious causes.
The Sistine Chapel was desired by Pope Julius II, who was considered a "warrior pope" for his desire to have control politically and to empower Italy under the Roman church. Having grand paintings and buildings as the Vatican is a power tool, symbol, and the artists who worked on it were paid handsomely.
He really IS a creepy old man! ITA.
As for beliefs, I am spiritual, I believe in a Superior "Being" and I try not to ask but give thanks.
"Do unto others as I would they unto me" is my motto, but I do harsh sometimes. To each his own.
I don't believe in God, but I'm not convinced that consciousness ceases after the body dies. Thousands of people have had near death experiences and they all report the same thing despite their own cultures and belief systems. These experiences changed their lives and ways of thinking for the better and completely removed their fear of death. Maybe this is a boilerplate hallucination produced by the brain going haywire while it's dying, but that hasn't been proven yet. I guess I won't know until it's my turn to check out.
I'm not gonna lie, though. It's comforting to think that we go somewhere after we die and that it's so much better than this. I just don't believe it has anything to do with fables about a deity who hates gays, wants women to be nothing more than baby factories and slaves to their husbands and will allow Its creations to be horribly tortured for all eternity because they stepped out of line. Whoever came up with that shit had some fucking ISSUES.
Submitted by FullMetalJackass on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 10:56am.
I hope more people come out of the disbelief closet. Superstition and religious belief are a scourge upon the earth. They are the mind diseases that have stunted our moral, technological, and scientific progress since the Dark Ages.
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I guess the Sistine Chapel, Handel's Messiah, all of the European cathedrals, Greek and Roman temples, and pretty much the vast majority of art and music since--well--antiquity don't count as progress, then?
o/t - who cares what Morgan Freeman has to say about anything? He's a creepy old man. I like him as an actor but now he just skeeves me out.
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"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours."
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Submitted by crazyinjapan on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 11:34pm.
I'm an agnostic, but I do go to church (I know that might sound weird, but it is an *Episcopal* church so it's okay). Anyway, at the beginning of each service, the minister says something like, "God: for whom all desires are known and no secrets are hidden." It sort of creeps me out, like God is a stalker. Constantly watching, peeping through your windows, hacking your email, reading your diary, and driving past your work.
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This cracked me the fuck up!
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"... and her temper worse than wildfire it is gunpowder and blows up everything ..." Mary Shelley
Freeman's past work has always impressed me: as we find out more about his PERSONAL thoughts/life, I tend to just appreciate his body of work and ignore the sordid, or in this case, arrogant.
"I am God". I'm unsure as to it's context, but *shrug* what can I say?
hmm, i have seen this type of argument before-morgan, like some athiests, dont believe in god because they disagree with a certain religious teaching. but thats very narrow minded-just because you dont believe in one religious teaching does not mean there is not a omnipotent being out there that created us. and yeah it seems to be christianity they dont believe in-because they bring up the whole science v religion debate which is funny as there are religions that support both.
it would just be better to say "i dont believe in christianity" rather than "there is no god thats a FACT!" because then at least you can save face. but also i totally agree with posters calling morgan freeman out for being a perve, so why should we care what this asshat thinks?
SalmaNella:
Yes, I'm from a podunk town in the south. But I pride myself on being an educated and accepting member of the 'dunk. I've gotten out of here several times and always returned back. It's home, my family is here. Obviously there are religious zealots here...but I wasn't raised that way. I was raised to love everyone equally, regardless.
Sal, this is exactly how I feel and my situation; it's like you lifted my own words. So nice to meet "kindred spirits" here.
Submitted by EveryStrangersEyes on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 11:06am.
Exactly! Who wants to argue with some softheads about who has the best imaginary friend!
http://youtu.be/i9WOdnR-Nfs
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I'm not a living legend. I'm just a myth.
Ooh boy oh boy!! Religion!!
Well I am an aetheist, I just cannot bring myself to believe in god although my Irish Protestant upbringing means that I do fear the idea of god.
My issue with religion is that those who profess to be so the loudest are most generally the most judgemental, unforgiving, us-vs-them, unpleasant people you will ever meet (unless you subscribe exactly to what they believe). I have respect for those religious people who don't keep banging on about it and allow their beliefs to be represented in their actions and how they treat others.
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"It's always funny until somebody gets hurt-then it's fucking hilarious": The late great Bill Hicks
Didn't he get it on with his (step) granddaughter??
Submitted by Raul Duke on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 11:00am.
oh no!!... nope!!... no way!!
i don't do religion, politics, or Angelina Jolie posts, but damnitall!!... there just shouldn't be any Dr.Seuss bashing, Raulio!... i believe in Sneetches, and nobody's telling me different!!
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"I could listen to a babbling brook,
and hear a song that I could understand.
I keep wishing it could be that way.
Because my world would be a Wonderland."
IF there was a God, and he made man in his own image ....
there wouldn't be so many butt ugly men!
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Raul will acknowledge your beliefs but doesn't respect them just cuz some guy wrote a book, fucking Dr.Seuss wrote books too! Now MK, spit out that dick post something new!
http://youtu.be/i9WOdnR-Nfs
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I'm not a living legend. I'm just a myth.
Mr. Freeman, I didn't think I could love you any more deeply, but you have taken it to another level, baby.
Just in case anyone was wondering: There is no god. And the gods we are aware of in popular myths are the same gods that have been reinvented over, and over, and over again since the dawn of civilization. This fact does not mean that they are more likely to be real. It is simply a testament to the tendency of the human mind to create the answers where there are none.
I hope more people come out of the disbelief closet. Superstition and religious belief are a scourge upon the earth. They are the mind diseases that have stunted our moral, technological, and scientific progress since the Dark Ages.
Bye Hunnehs!
I'm not saying we shouldn't be introspective and moral, but I've never understood organized religion. Of all the things that blow my mind about how scientists think the universe was made, I don't understand how an old white guy in a robe sitting on a cloud is that compelling by comparison.
And sorry, while I'm sure praying away your problems feels good, some religious institutions are harmful. Teaching kids that being gay is immoral and insisting on creationism in science class? WTF.
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Submitted by Migraineuse
God = heavenly father figure
It's ironic that the people who reject God are the ones who have this narrow, rudimentary idea of what God might be.
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Excellent point. It's a shame how fundamentally undeducated some people are. If one reads Saint Augustine's Confessions, written in the 300's, or some of Thomas Aquinas, written in the 1200's, you would know that theological philosophy has not considered God a "man in the sky" for centuries, and yet sophists always posit this simplicity.
The sophistry of Morgan Freeman's thinking is irrelevant to a discussion of the nature of God. The Angelic Doctor once posited that it would be logically impossible for Nothing to produce Something.
Then I read Bjork You's postings and I realized he was wrong.
Idk what I believe.. I do believe in God but I also believe science has a big part of the world's creation and evolution.. I think God may be a scientist! I know evoloution vs creationism is a super taboo subject and the two cannot co-exist 'supposedly'.. but imo they just have to! I do believe that Jesus died for our sins and rose again.. I think part of having God in your life is in how we live it..Self-less acts such as the one God did when he gave his only son to save his people..
Also I do believe in the higher being but I do not believe in everything churches.. like I am Catholic born and raised and my church sends me a statement saying I should 'donate' $100/month based on my income.. my income last year was about $8,000... take home far less than that because I work @ a store and charge groceries to feed .my family..Sometimes I can't wait til the next check..so there are times I bring home a $13 paycheck..am I supposed to give that selflessly to the church? Probably! Do I? No? Before you worry about me typing this from a cardboard box while my 3 kids rifle through garbage for a morsel.. My husband makes a lot of money..He's just very selfish with it.. but then again none of you probably know I have 3 kids anyway! ;)
i have to believe in something more powerful than I am. who make sunsets so beautiful? and dogs and cats? why are things out there better than me? That is what makes me believe.
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"I didn't know whether to shit or go blind, so I closed one eye and farted"
Man invented God, not the other way around, so he's absolutely right.
I'd sooner believe in aliens.
I'm as atheist as they come. I don't care what people believe, I admire faith to an extent but I've never found the notion of God to be something I need or want in my life, I don't find myself to be missing out on some higher plane of existence for it and prefer to adopt a live and let live stance on it.
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Submitted by AtomicCity on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 8:45am.
I believe in God. I said it. I pray several times throughout the day and every night before I go to sleep. In fact, I start my nightly prayer off with the same exact prayer I've said since I was a little girl. I take no shame in that. Yes, I'm from a podunk town in the south. But I pride myself on being an educated and accepting member of the 'dunk. I've gotten out of here several times and always returned back. It's home, my family is here. Obviously there are religious zealots here...but I wasn't raised that way. I was raised to love everyone equally, regardless. Granted, I'm not the BEST person and I don't want to sound self-righteous. I know all too well that I have flaws, lots of them. However, ideally I'd like to eventually be known for just being a good, accepting and loving person. If my God helps me do that, am I really hurting anyone else?
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Even in my moments of doubting there was a God, it always seemed that when things get rough, I automatically go into prayer. It soothes me and makes me feel less alone. I'm still not certain about my "belief system" but I do believe in God. Like you said, it isn't hurting anyone else and it isn't something I feel necessary to convince or push on others.
Submitted by Migraineuse on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 8:07am.
God = heavenly father figure created by the wishful thinking of frightened humans who then try to convince each other that they're specially favored by it so they can get some social leverage
That is a really small-minded thing to say.
It's ironic that the people who reject God are the ones who have this narrow, rudimentary idea of what God might be. Let me also point out that it isn't the person who boasts all day about their faith in God who is truly representative of it; but the person who carries faith in their heart.
This is a fundamental lesson in the Bible, if you weren't too busy taking it literally for the sake of criticising it with narrow-minded assumptions. Even a Heathen like me knows this.
Submitted by NDNchief on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 3:25am.
No shade or disrespect, honestly, but I find it impossible to read or reply to your posts or the posts of people who quote you because of your sig. Just seems like too much work. I was too tired to elaborate yesterday, so thanks for not taking my comment as an attack. <3
I believe in God. I said it. I pray several times throughout the day and every night before I go to sleep. In fact, I start my nightly prayer off with the same exact prayer I've said since I was a little girl. I take no shame in that. Yes, I'm from a podunk town in the south. But I pride myself on being an educated and accepting member of the 'dunk. I've gotten out of here several times and always returned back. It's home, my family is here. Obviously there are religious zealots here...but I wasn't raised that way. I was raised to love everyone equally, regardless. Granted, I'm not the BEST person and I don't want to sound self-righteous. I know all too well that I have flaws, lots of them. However, ideally I'd like to eventually be known for just being a good, accepting and loving person. If my God helps me do that, am I really hurting anyone else?
"A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle."--catholicschoolgirl
I'm with Migraineuse.
And I can't stomach him since that granddaughter diddling thing. He can go sit in the corner with Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Lou Perl, Dan Schneider and all the other Hollywood pedophiles. Scum.
P.S. I'm just playing a bit of devil's advocate there. I don't believe in either God or religion, because all religions are oppressive and sexist. (yes even Buddhism).
God = heavenly father figure created by the wishful thinking of frightened humans who then try to convince each other that they're specially favored by it so they can get some social leverage
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Penguin...Batman was so wrong about you.
Submitted by Sweetas on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 4:11pm.