DoctorGordon
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burner69 said:Who are you to say what and what-is-not God? If you don't believe in him, you can't.
It gives people warm feelings, not necessarily that of being important.
It also sets down moral values which allow us to survive as a society, without religion early on we wouldn't be where we are now. It was needed to control the masses into not going around killing eachother, and ironically, so they would go to wars to increase society's powers - with the fear of hell if they didn't obey.
Religious people are often very confident, some a little too so, but a large majority of the truly religious I like.
Your ignorance towards other faiths gives you a bad name
EDIT: If it's okay in your eyes that there may be people "running the show" on the "other side", why is it illogical for their to be a God. You just described God in the plural, surely something less "logical".
A bunch of scientists, programmers, whoever could have made the universe (but im not saying I believe that). The conventional idea of (christain?) God is what im saying is stupid. And there arent just dang angels and some evil guy wanting to torture ppl. Look around you...look at the universe, if a god, heaven, hell, and all that existed, the universe certainly wouldnt work like it does.
I understand the reason religion was invented, but i'm saying that we shouldnt need religion to control the masses at this point in our development. Things are the way they are though, but i still have the right to say how weak they are for thinking so, if everyone applied logic, they'd see the truth. And we're talking logic here, not my personal opinion (which follows my logic nonetheless).