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Originally posted by Grungi:
oh, thought you were still asking the question for enlightenment [img]tongue.gif[/img] , i dunno you scummers eh  (to anyone not from southampton or portsmouth ignore that) oh and vaskez you are from southampton arent you? epona said, but i dont know how he knows [img]tongue.gif[/img] so im assuming you are, and know what i mean by scummer [img]tongue.gif[/img]
anyhows well least now you know why people who dont believe see little point in pretending they do, like myself, i personally feel i get far more respect from someone religious for being goodhearted, honest and generally a nice person than if i followed their religion, all the religious people i know and have met RL do respect me more for that, they dont care what religion i am because im a nice person (95 percent of the time [img]tongue.gif[/img] ) and i feel if a god existed he too would respect me far more for that and care about that than me not believing in him
Though id like to throw something else into this discussion, i been using he for god all the time, one reason i dont think much of religion is its always about the male in charge, which at the time religions were formed was the case, the male was always in charge, so god becomes male, thats human intepretation yet again, it says to me men made the whole concept of religion up not some higher power, because if there really was a god why would he be male? and why was jesus a man (and have a beard [img]tongue.gif[/img] ) i cant think of a religion off hand where the main god is female, anyone else know? Anyhows thought id just bring that up [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Hey the point here was why don't people believe in God. I wasn't saying you should be a Christian or any particular religion but then I was asked about what I thought about heaven etc. so we got onto the Christian view.
I can see reasons why people may not be Christians what I said was I cannot see why people don't believe in God. I can understand if you have looked into your heart and decided there is no God, I just couldn't understand that despite all the arguments have posted people can be sure and CONTENT in their knowledge that there is no God. I think you are wrong but we'll both find out when we die I guess
I'm not sure about the man thing in religions. I guess it's cos the religions all were first practiced in patriarchical societies. The people inspired by God to write the holy books interpreted them in a way that the people then could relate to, i.e. God is a father and there is the son. The holy spirit however has no gender? However it also says that man is created in God's image so I guess then that God must mean for us to interpret that as though he's a man. Maybe it's because males are generally the physically strong sex and were more respected at the time Jesus lived? I have no idea really, just thinking out loud.