Okay, now, I'll admit, I kind of skipped a few posts in this massive topic... but it's just so darn repetitive! Can you people find no fresh arguments to raise?
Now, I, for one, beleive that yes, someone, or at the very least, something, created this universe we live in. If "God" is the name we give it... then so be it. Here's MY interpretation, or an idea I have, at least:
Anyone ever play that game as a kid, Broken Telephone I think it was, where you'd sit in a circle and pass on a message? As you kept it going, it'd slowly get more distorted and would change... so what if, at one point, humanity knew as a collective whole, that some form of "God" did exist? As the ages passed, renegades and individuals (or even large groups with opposing views) might misinterpret it, and the message would be come fragmented and twisted. Us being the dumb humans we are, might have decided to turn it into a deity to worship (if it wasn;t one already)and soon thereafter comes all the different religions we have today. Therefore, every religion could theoretically be "correct" because we're all worshipping the same "God," just different versions of him/her/it...
Even if you think that's bull, I'd just like to take this opportunity to say STOP with the freaking "I-never-saw-or-felt-God-so-therefore-he-must-not-exist" crap. This is utter bull.
Let's say someone tells you that a dog is standing on your lawn (lame analogy, but bear with me here). Now, you and me both run to the lawn, and the dog is gone! But... there's a little dog turd left behind (hehe, I'm liking this analogy more and more). Now, I can say there MUST have been a dog there, 'casue there's a turd! You can say there WAS no dog, and that that guy was playing a joke on you (bad joke, eh?) but no matter which way we look at it... SOMETHING had to make that turd, right? So whether we decide to ignore it, worship it, or WHATEVR - someting had to make that turd!
Now, after all that deep symbolism and whatnot (God is a happy, nice, benevolent animal and we are it's turd, yes, I'm the master of symbolism, aren't I?
) I end with a small stab at some of these forum members. Everyone who goes around proclaiming that there must not be a God, only becasue they have no solid physical evidence, is just incapable of realizing the truth. Something DID make this place we exist in, and if you're too weak to accept or embrace that, then I think you're the ones at fault. At least the people who beleive in a God here are brave enough to embrace something like that, and even more so to bring their beleifs before a pack of wolves like yourselves.
Sure, I know, some are over the edge about it, and are content to merely run around posting "God loves you!" "Bless you all!" While I'm sure these messages are well-meant, they do indeed become annoying and have no real backbone behind their beleif (or at least, none that hey state, at any rate).
I hope you've all enjoyed my little rant. I'm sure it'll receive much flaming and ridicule, but unless you can come back with something better than "Gee whiz, the bible contradicts itself!" (which has only been brought up 1,000,000 times already, and it covered by my theory) than my work here is done.
Good night
-DarkVengeance
P.S. It's also nice to beleive in an afterlife - kinda disappointing to think all this is for nothing, eh? :D
<small>[ April 30, 2002, 12:33 AM: Message edited by: DarkVengeance ]</small>
