Thread: Is God real ? or is religion just a scam.

Originally Posted by Texpat

Four Americans posted, four don't believe in god.

Cept for the beer and dancing girl gods, I agree.

^^ gee, what a sample, I bet you were at the top in statistics class

^^^ Easy now cow-boy, US got a huge amount of self-invented preachers, who's only mission is to rip people off as mush as they can....

It's all true, i saw god once with the loch ness monster!

scamp says friscofrankie is jesus christ.

move in the right direction, anyway.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

gee, what a sample, I bet you were at the top in statistics class

his effort here indicates he probably didn't do too well with reading comprehension either.

Originally Posted by Texpat

Four Americans posted, four don't believe in god.

five.

Originally Posted by jizzybloke

It's all true, i saw god once with the loch ness monster!

Heh...I saw Jesus and the whole Holy Host one time too.
After a few hours on some kick-ass Laguna Beach Sunshine!

Originally Posted by jandajoy

You have to have something / someone to blame things on. So, spotting a gap in the market the power brokers step in, organise things a bit and Bigo you've got organised religion. It's a bit like Tescoes or any other multinational, just a lot more hypocritical.

When and where has this happened?
What does Tescoes have to do with blaming, power-broking or religion?

What does any of this have to do with the question whether there is a god or not?

I thought Einstein was a believer in God?

Originally Posted by Alex DeLarge

I thought Einstein was a believer in God?

"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings."
-- Albert Einstein

Spinoza asserted that for a concept of god to make any sense at all, it must simply be nature. That is, god cannot be something outside nature that controls it, but must necessarily be part of it. According to Spinoza, God IS nature.

^ So nature is the creator of life....makes sense through.. But how did humans manage to mess it all up that bad ??? Must be in there power hungry and destructive way of life.....Indeed sad...

I would not worry that much about that.
At the end nature will prevail.
Dinosaurs spent hundred of millions of years on earth and they disappeared.
We'll disappear far faster than that...

i stopped believing in god after my granny used to thank the lord for the food we ate
i questioned her once and asked why she thanked the lord and shouldn't she be thanking the local supermarket for her food ,we never talked about it again and i was in the dog house bless her soul

^
Lot's of guys angry about their religious upbringing in this thread, me thinks.

What was your granny's concept of 'god'?
Which other ones are there, any merit in any of them?

My god(dess) will grind her crotch into your face until you submit.

I forgot, I'm also a big fan of another god -- Bacchus.

^ I take that you also think of your country as some kind of god,

so that make you also a believer,

Please take that nasty thing out of your mouth and try again in English please.

^ I understood BF perfectly...What is it with you merkins....

Originally Posted by stroller

Lot's of guys angry about their religious upbringing in this thread, me thinks.

I'm not.. I find it quite interesting..."God" I wish Ceburat would get online...

All religions are basically philosophy, and if you want to make philosophy accessible to the uneducated or illiterate, then you are going to have to draw cartoons.

Originally Posted by Dalton

^ I understood BF perfectly...What is it with you merkins....

There you go interpreting your god's words to suit your needs.

Belief provides faith and faith is like pulling free energy out of the air. Faith is inspiring. Well, faith is free as long as you don't get caught up in the rigmarole of tenets and guilt.

My guide in all of this, of course, the biggest name-dropper in science, is Albert Einstein, who mentioned God often enough that one could imagine he and the “Old One” had a standing date for coffee or tennis. To wit: “The Lord is subtle, but malicious he is not.”
Or this quote regarding the pesky randomness of quantum mechanics: “The theory yields much, but it hardly brings us closer to the Old One’s secrets. I, in any case, am convinced that He does not play dice.”

With Einstein, we always knew where he stood in relation to “God” — it was shorthand for the mystery and rationality of nature, the touchstones of the scientific experience. Cosmic mystery, Einstein said, is the most beautiful experience we can have, “the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” “He who does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement,” he continued, “is as good as a snuffed-out candle.”

If we didn’t already have a name for the object of Einstein’s “cosmic religion,” we would have to invent one. It’s just too bad that the name has been tainted and trivialized by association with the image of a white-bearded Caucasian-looking creature who sits in the clouds attended by harp-strumming angels.

If Einstein were around today, he would likely be scolded every other time he opened his metaphor-laden mouth for giving aid and comfort to the creationists. Indeed, the architects of intelligent design have not been shy about interpreting his aversion to divine dice playing and a remark wondering if God had any choice in creating the world, as support for an intelligent designer. Einstein didn’t mean it that way, of course. He was only using a metaphor to wonder if it was possible to build more than one logically consistent universe. That’s a question that still provokes hot debate.

Particle Physics - Higgs Boson - What’s in a Name? Parsing the ‘God Particle,’ the Ultimate Metaphor - New York Times