all that matters is love and light
you can see light, so it is real. When it is dark you are lost, you need light to live
love is real, you can feel it, without it you're also lost. thats what keeps us together.
thats all religions need to teach and preach. FTR
I agree completely! Religion shouldnt be about belief in the existence of someone/something, it should be about making your existence the best. Im having trouble explaining this, but ill try. Religion is often great for families and kids because it does teach them how to live the right way. however when you feed them all these beliefs and stories it just becomes a total mess. Religion should be about bringing people together for peace, not for the reason of a belief. Im not sure if that even makes sense, lol.
You can't believe in religion if you refuse to open your eyes to everything else.
I just want to say you can. I see so many people claim to be christian, jewish ect. and THEY cant open their minds and believe in others. Ive read the bible, went to church, so ive tried to "open my eyes" (i think is how you put it) but all i got in return was people telling me how to live my life and using it against my actions. So until you open up YOUR minds you wont understand where people are coming from.
BTW, ill be honest, i dont like your way of putting it. "open your eyes" because eyes has nothing to do with religion, if it did then we wouldnt be here today talking about it.
anyways i dont want you to feel like im attacking you as a person because im really not, id love to meet you and smoke one with you because i believe friendship is the most important thing in this world. peace and love.
My take on faith is that it's something that you know to be true or false but cannot prove. cn
I hear this a lot, and my response to that is you cant know something without proof, you can only assume. I could have faith that im going to make it to 100 years old, but really im only assuming this. There was this GREAT speach on "TED talks" and i will try to find it, but it talked about how people think they are right without proof automatically. i believe he called it the god effect? dont quote me on it. but he went into the life of this doctor who was a captive of war and his other captives were all getting this sickness (and he had it too) and no matter what he tried it didnt work. Then one day he got a hold of some supplies from the soldiers and it seemed to combat the illness. he asked the soldiers for more of these supplies so he can heal his men and they all thought he was crazy until one soldier gave him the supplies behind everyone elses back. after the war, he addressed stroke patients and whether or not it is better to keep them in the hospital when recovering or send them home, and right off the bat everyone called him crazy, that he was wrong without any proof at all. he did a test and called all his colleagues in and said in fact it is better to keep the in the hospital to recover. Everyone became smartassed and said i told you so then he said, let me tell you another thing, i switched up the results it seems its easier to recover from a stroke at home, and everyone fell dead silent. just an example im a horrible speaker so ill try to find the video at once. its really a great speach.
im roman catholic but im good with other religion i dont seperate myself based o nwhat i belive shit my best friend is a muslim i judge ppl by what type person they are not religion
I have many friends like you and im glad to see more and more people like you. peace and love.
when one submits to religion, you must think why. its because of weakness. they cant take the facts of life, they have to make it a fairy tale with magic and resurrection. its all a gimmick, they want power and money. looks what the cathoics have done for the last thousand years. its all about mind control, those who do submit are victim to this mind control.
when i was younger i ofter fought with my step mother (christian) about her forcing me to go to church (i didnt mind it, i liked it actually) but she would try to change who i was as a person and the things i did. which i would counter with "stop trying to control my mind". but as i got older people dont go to religion because they are scared, or weak, but because they are empty, they need something in their life to feel good about the life they live. which i believe is awesome im glad religion can bring people happiness, one of the pros imo.
Yes... its funny how much God "needs your money."
Churches are great, i would want my kids to go to church if it didnt involve all the extra mumbo jumbo. Churches also need charity to do the things they do. So i understand this part of religion, they dont force you to donate, its up to you.
My personal belief about religion is it was created during a time when there was no real order or law to control an out of control world population. The different groups, seperated by vast geographical distances, created their own method of controlling their people, all of which did it through fear of the unknown. This theory is terrifying to many, since there is nothing to show that it (their God or whatever leader) exists or doesn't, but requires blind faith, and is the perfect tool to control, and to make the upper class wealthy.
Look at the incredible wealth of the Catholics in the Vatican.
I do not belive in God, but in energy, which must be returned to the earth. I cannot explain the concept of a spirit, since I haven't met one yet .
well spoken and i agree with you completely. however maybe not return to earth, theres a whole universe out there! the star dust im made of could be from hundreds of stars, or it could be from one. it all goes round and round imo. this also sparks my thoughts on science because i hear people give a date to the age of the universe, and the age of the earth, which is just like religion imo. stop preaching the unknown and preach the stuff you do know. Wonder about the unknown, accept the known!
and those people are supposed to be some of the best people on earth. they're all arrogant and spoiled. what fucking greed man. i wish people in FL would realize how big of a scam religion is, china has already addressed that Christianity is a scam. its completely true, they're all about power and helping themselves. theres no truly good christians, they only put up that facade so people are distracted from how horrible they really are.
ill have to stop you at "theres no truly good christians" because someone can be christian and be a good person. i know many. dont judge someone just for the fact of their beliefs. this is my exact point of my OP, people are too ignorant and cast away people in groups and label them without taking the time to examine them. Now if i were to say this person is a "good christian", id say "oxymoron".
