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Jynx · 10-23-2003, 06:07 PM

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issue: enlightened people don't believe in religion - i believe this is because the more enlightened you are, the less satisfied you are with a church telling you that something just happened because of god, and you are uncomfortable with "do this because god wants you to" and being asked not to object. you are more satisfied with personal exploration, and if that happens to fit the bill of a particular faith, so much the better.
assertion: god exists - a fundamental question best left to its own thread. i think that if one exists, it is radically different than what has been proposed.
issue: society requires religion to succeed - i disagree. all religion gives to society is a preset list of rules. i believe that you are perhaps allowing a few visible crimes affect your view of the majority of the population. i have more faith in our race - i believe that society would be able to function very well without the crutch of religion.
issue: god must exist because all this stuff happens that i don't understand - just because we can't explain something doesn't mean that god is involved - it just means we have insufficient knowledge. also it is worth mentioning that the universe has had an awful long time to sort things out, and while it may be highly improbable that a set of circumstances cropped up that allowed life, i figure that with an arguably infinite number of worlds there is a very high certainty of life cropping up somewhere (how old is the universe? how many are there?).

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10-23-2003, 06:07 PM	#3 (permalink)
Jynx Upright	::input:: //brain dump ////processing // /////// /// /// ////////// issue: enlightened people don't believe in religion - i believe this is because the more enlightened you are, the less satisfied you are with a church telling you that something just happened because of god, and you are uncomfortable with "do this because god wants you to" and being asked not to object. you are more satisfied with personal exploration, and if that happens to fit the bill of a particular faith, so much the better. assertion: god exists - a fundamental question best left to its own thread. i think that if one exists, it is radically different than what has been proposed. issue: society requires religion to succeed - i disagree. all religion gives to society is a preset list of rules. i believe that you are perhaps allowing a few visible crimes affect your view of the majority of the population. i have more faith in our race - i believe that society would be able to function very well without the crutch of religion. issue: god must exist because all this stuff happens that i don't understand - just because we can't explain something doesn't mean that god is involved - it just means we have insufficient knowledge. also it is worth mentioning that the universe has had an awful long time to sort things out, and while it may be highly improbable that a set of circumstances cropped up that allowed life, i figure that with an arguably infinite number of worlds there is a very high certainty of life cropping up somewhere (how old is the universe? how many are there?). //end