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I don't discount religion as such. I'm an agnostic, not an atheist. Nor do I discount reincarnation. There are plenty of interesting accounts surrounding that, I agree on that point. My mind is open, I think these things are possible. My fundamental problem is that if there is more to the universe than the atheists claim, which I suspect there is, then whomever set this sham of a universe up needs a good kick in the nuts.
And I don't mean Adam and Eve and original sin here, I mean the actual basic nature of the universe. Setting it up as it is would be fundamentally unethical to the religions that it spawned, which suggests to me that they are obsolete. Reading the mind of god through science and modern philosophy reveals the mind of a madman.
If you want interesting reading on why I think this way, go to Wikipedia and search "anthropic principal" and "simulation theory" for lots of mindblows.
SciFi -take this approach, you an creative person, imagine you are god who can create life, and that you decided to create new planet with new beings
on it, you got your design how they will look physically, but now you need to design their emotional aspects, their thinking patterns, their reasoning
capacity, ...because till now you just have shaped physical bodies with out mental emotional faculties, no thinking capacity in them.
In my opinion you have only two choices, or to give them free will like we have in all of our non physical qualities and capacities
or you can start limiting them one by one, some less some more, but every time you limit one of them you creating being more and more
"programmed" to do things to react to things according to only one principal the principal that you design into them -no room for choices
that those beings would make in their reactions to various situations to various stimuli.
If you spend some time in relaxed atmosphere thinking how would you design-create human beings,how would you improve
existing 'design' of human beings you will come to a very interesting conclusions in my opinion
especially for a person with creative mind of a writer...quite fun and provoking mental fantasy exercise...
As to your reading suggestions, thank you for them, but my fait in Jesus Christ is solidly set,..I went years ago through a very intensive stage
of few years of reading books on various religions and philosophies.
I was born into Christian faith, but never really understood much about it besides very basic stuff, then got extremely angry
at Christianity at God couldn't stand it hearing name of Jesus Christ /never mind pronounce it in public/ was also outraged at all of that
injustice that you talked about it ..and more and I went on a discovery "trip" reading about many different religions,philosophies,
new age,..etc-etc - but as much as some of them offered me some help and explanations I felt that there was something missing in their
chain of logic, theory was sounding good but suddenly a piece of logic was missing, quite significant piece of logic was missing so I was
dropping them one by one.
And eventually I come back to revisit Christianity, started reading Bible and what was really helpful was listening to radio program
with Bible study done by various Christian dominations,..and after few months of listening to them for few hours a day,
/I got a small SONY packet radio and over the ear loop style headphones that I cut off the left loop and listen in my right ear
that way I could also hear outside world if need it/ - so after few months I got to understand which of the preacher was more logical
and careful in his Bible interpretation and which was more 'wild' - but even from the 'wild' bit crazy ones I was learning stuff.
After the years I still listen to them /there is only one that I turn radio off when he is on/ -and from the rest of them I still learn things
even that I might not agree with their interpretation on all of the topics like on Sunday worshiping and how that day was
fraudulently introduced into Christianity /you can read my post on it here/
Re: RELIGION Thread « Reply #49 on: October 27, 2016, 02:33:10 AM »
http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,10386.30.htmlAdd to it twice very vivid out of body experience and listening to Art Bell shows that cover past lives, and before that reading about it
in some of the books, every thing come togheter into much more logical format that brought sense of 'peace' with in my self
in respect to understand why Loving God would allow for all this suffering to happen especially to children...
And that is a huge relief from constant fighting with the invisible All-powerful Creator
I don't claim that I fully understand everything but I think I have pretty good idea and now I'm not ashamed to say name of Jesus Christ
in public but I don't go and start conversations about it, only if I'm asked and I don't go full blast, just share and answer enough to satisfy
the level of interest of that person...
You should consider to give a try it might bring lot's of relief and inner peace
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