you look neat, wish you lived in Illinois....

@LimitedLight @ my dads GF funeral the preacher was trying to make it look as if they were good friends yet never got her name right, not once.....

Copycat kings

Christianity is nothing more than a patchwork quilt of ancient pagan and mystery religions.” The Church borrowed heavily from pagan deities already in existence or long before the time of Jesus. Rejected by the academic community, because historical facts don’t support it, it lingers as a vague idea in popular culture. it’s quickly apparent that the differences are actually much greater than any commonalities.

That sounds like a novel. Simply amazing, but my mother would never tell me if those things went on in our church. When I was older I saw similar to your story. It would make no difference to most believers though. They say a church is for sinners. Then they'll turn around and say a person wouldn't do the things if they prayed more. Theres no data check.

What would you have God do? Execute Judgement on he wicked?

Your right my friend. But in reality he’s not, who? Because he doesn’t exit.

Your right my friend. But in reality he’s not, who? Because he doesn’t exit.

@wmou he done a good job on doing it to the good.

A stalker. Sir may I suggest you got this wrong. He is nothing.

I believed in Jesus and all that bullshit until God took my dad from me when I was 8 years old. I prayed to Jesus to "bring Dad back" like he did Lazereth. Needless to say, the great and wonderful, powerful all knowing JESUS DIDN'T DO IT!!!...so that was the end of that. I figured they were lying to me at church, which they were. Organized religions are about '' control " and getting your money.

@FlyingEagle1952 By come back to life rules Lazereth is like 10-11 times more powerful than Jesus.

@DragonDust I'm not sure what you are trying to say to me, but all in all.....life is getting strange, and we are all getting closer to the end every day as time goes on. it's important to control the mind, keep hate, anger, and depression to a minimum.....and enjoy life. I keep busy but most of the. time I am lonely and sad. Politicians are full of it, religious leaders are full of it, corporations are full of it.....you can't trust anyone........my mother used to say," at the end of your life, if you can count the number of friends you have on one hand.....YOU ARE LUCKY!!!

@FlyingEagle1952 It's kind of a Point Of View thing. If coming back from the dead makes you all powerful then lazerus should be more powerful than Jesus. If it was only the numbers that count then we'd use Stalin as our stand in word for evil rather than Hitler. Some people are terrified of the idea of there being nothing after death while others take comfort in it. Struggle and understanding infinity. Australian Aboriginals have a historically beneficial relationship with fire (hunting, agriculture, earliest bakers lots of stuff) and had many words for it. Fire is powerful but only lasts for a moment as does the usefulness of knowledge. so the lake of fire was like a lake of knowledge rather than something daunting. Aboriginal translation of the bible didn't beat down like others did. Some stuff is serious and some is not so serious. Shower thoughts if you will. What will you care about at your deathbed? Friends, family, how you spent your time? What was the last thing you ate? That's something only you'll find out though we all will eventually for ourselves. I kind of went off there. Anyway is POV. Positive, negative, somewhere in between?

@DragonDust Once again, I don' t know what your point is. call it The Universe, call it The Void.....whatever. It's bigger than me, ha ha! Stay away from the evil doers!!!

@FlyingEagle1952 Haha. I can agree on that.

HA! I have ALWAYS referred to the godbots as "The Borg"

I think that because we have a better understanding of the universe is why we are non believers.

@misstuffy. There is a philosophical responsibility of the religious to accept their religious principles. There is no responsibility of the nonreligious at all. Many sceptics and atheists take up the mantle of science, not as a protest against the universe, but as an acceptance of the universe... Flaws and all.

Religiosity cannot allow the acceptance of flaws. It must be perfect because it was made perfect by a perfect being.

So I'm going to rephrase your statement as:
Because we are Nonbelievers, we allow ourselves to better understand our universe.

Because we have no preconceived notions or restricted narratives, we don't have to find anything other than what's there.

@Keita I prefer to word my statements my own way but I get what you are saying.

'You'll understand more when you're older...You'll understand more when you're wiser.'?? WTF??

I hate it when I’m told I have to have faith. Nobody in the Bible had to have faith! Either God or an Angel manifested themselves to all the biggies. If God or an Angel manifest for me, I’ll consider having faith.

Who is the fuck is that blind believer. Get out!

Wtf?

@rossit0725 I was an orthodox Jew for a while, now I'm a non-jew. does that clear it up?