My latest Case for a Creator
What would happen if we finally let go of religion? What would happen if God was completely removed from society? What would happen if we completely removed God's presence and existence from our society? What would happen if we finally eliminated God's influence from society? Or could we? If we couldn't, why not? Because we need him that bad as an idea? No, I don't think so, because if we needed to maintain the idea of God that badly, would that not belie the very nature of our ability to dismiss archaic ideas? For we have been doing that, it seems, in every generation, writing off archaic ideas that no longer hold any water or relevance for our ever-developing society. We're not stupid, obviously, since we're able to create and develop such things as we have, and that we have the ability to reason through things and dismiss those things that are no longer necessary. Is that not evolution?
Therefore, I believe the things that have lasted in our society are truly important. Just as we can't get away from having a new spring flower be beautiful to us, or being attracted to the opposite sex, or enjoying the sweetness of sugar, such things as God we cannot get away from either. Why? Because we need to hold onto them? Impossible. No global conspiracy can so fully blind the eyes of so many free minds. Obviously they are inescapable realities, if they are still around. Obviously they do exist. By nature we continue to seek that which is woven into the fabric of our existence, our nature, our very being. Therefore, by nature, we continue to seek our Creator - in whatever form of pursuit that may take - because we continue to bear the imprint of our Creator. We cannot get away from this reality. If we could, why haven't we? God is a disgusting waste of time if he does not truly exist.
posted by ...Ney @ 1:53 a.m.
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Yes, let's imagine for a minute... what if our planet somehow managed to get rid of God. Are atheists right? would we be better off? Like it's mentioned above in that famous song by John lennon he asks us to imagine world where there are no countrie, nothing to kiil or die for, and no religion, too. In that imaginary world he says that we would surely live in peace. and harmony.
For the record, I enjoy that song... everytime I hear it, I can relate with his desire for a better future. But really... No countries? NO religion? NOTHING to kill or die for? You might as well imagine people having no brains, no choices, no freedom or expression. Lobotomy anyone??
The truth is that if there wasn't anything to kill or die for, there wouldn't be anything to live for either. Like it or not, so long as people are in charge of their own lives, there will be diversity... and as long as there's diversity - and I pray there always will be - unavoidably, there will be different opinions.
let me give a couple examples of what I mean:
Remember Richard Harris as Bull McCabe in that 1990 movie "The Field"? The story goes something like this - For a long hard year, McCabe tenant-farms a tract of land owned by a widow who one day decides to put it up for auction, just to spite him. Everyone who lives in that town knows and sees the unfairness of this and they all plan on backing off and letting "the Bull" win the auction without any issues... but there's this new guy in town and he decides to bid against him. That's when Richard Harris delivers what I see to be the most memorable lines of that whole movie! He stands eyeball to eyeball with this cocky stranger and says this: "My advice is to stay out of it. This is deep. Very deep. Deeper than you think." When the stranger doesn't take this "advice", the Bull takes him on. Bull is willing to put him life on the line, not just for the sake of the land he's been working on so long and hard to make better, but to challenge what he sees to be a grave wrong-doing.
Moral of the story you might ask?
well, In life, there's these certain things we take a lot more seriously that other people, such as justtice, liberty, love, privacy, security, property, and YES even religion. Most of us only live for these things... most of us are willing to die for them too... even atheist and people who believe in other things.
The most common "argument" I hear when it comes to the belief in God is "The world woud be a better place without it - condier all the violence that's been done in the name of God." My question to you is this: "Would you fight someone who tried to impose a belief in God on you? Would you be willing to fight and die for your belief system?" Most people would answer "yes" to that.
Let's go even further with this "irony". Look at the horrible violence Marxism, Stalinism, and other godless political regimes of the twentieth century have done! There's some estimates from 1917 - 1991 that say that atheist governments massacred close to 100 million people!!!!! The worst of them were: USSR - 20 mill., China - 65 Mill., North Korea and Cambodia - 4 mill. If you look into this story a bit more you see that these communist regimes didn't just kill in the name of their atheism, but also because of their godless political.... what do you call it... Philosophies. OH, but lets not mince our words here, Atheism was a HUGE part of what drove them. They all denouced God and mostly targeted churches, temples, priests, ministers, rabbis, together with men, women and children to refused to renounce their faith in God.
Imagine a world without God? We don't have to! We've seen the reality of this kind of world because they refuse to know God...
These horrible and unparalleled acts of savasge violence done by godless individuals makes liars of atheists who accuse God and religion of being the main source of bloodshed in the world... they're nt even close to being right about that. Religion a backward superstition? A comforting delusion? well, given the utter horrifying truths of what the godless political regimes have done, the only backward superstition here is the belief that atheists are somehow smarter that people who believe in God (and I am not pointing fingers at anyone I know specifically... just from statements that some atheists have made). And given the personal, social and cultural...deviastation... ruling atheists have inflicted on people, the only comforting delusion here is the belief that atheists are somehow more advanced, more enlightened than people who believe in God.
IMAGINE THAT.
There is no freedom of thought in a communist society so really, I don't see it as being a fair comparison. Those people are dying because they are fighting for their right to choose what to believe. They aren't necessarily dying because they want to believe in God but rather they want freedom to believe in God if they choose. I don't think it's nearly as black & white as you're trying to paint it. People want freedom. period. I think to deny them freedom is the true atrocity.
ME
you just don't get it... and that's ok.
I'm gonna let ...Ney respond to these comments since it is his post.
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