Hey everyone
I want to know for research purpose and just as something to think about it. What is your position on religion and God?
Do you believe in God? Or do you believe in maybe evolution?
Does anyone think we are actually all “gods” in a way or maybe we are demigods?
What is your take on any or all of this? What do you believe in?
Not sure if we are threading into dangerous waters here…but I will offer you a point of view.
I am agnostic on god (or God if you prefer).
Would god be the supreme being or simply a very technologically advanced alien? How would I be able to tell the difference?
Do I believe in Jesus? No, there is no evidence. But I do believe in the council of Nicea.
Do I believe in the Buddha, Mohammed and L. Ron Hubbard? Yes but there is no evidence the Buddha wrote any sci-fi whereas the other two appear to have created a religion for their own betterment.
Do I believe in evolution? Yes, as far as I understand it, yes. One of the reasons being that the creationists have never been able to come up with any arguments against Mendelian Inheritance.
What I do believe in is that there is now a distinct lack of morality in Western Europe. I have no comment to make about the rest of the globe.
Why has this happened.
Christianity and the manorial system (east of the Hajnal Line) helped enforce morality as well as help select for a higher IQ and capitalism which themselves help with morality.
The introduction of scientific man and the technocrats and the welfare state have eroded the use of the community aspect of religion.
Hence the lack of morality.
I feel like religion gets a bad rap because people use it to do horrible things… like during the crusades the Arabs and the Christians slaughtered each other and did horrible things then blamed it on God saying he wanted it lol.
I also think that while God does exist, Christianity has been rewritten many times, i mean how many different versions of the bible are there? And also with each denomination of Christianity there seems to be a different version of the bible to an extent. You also have Roman Catholics and Catholics who think that they are superior to Christians.
I can imagine getting to heaven and at the gates God is standing there in energy form oh you are catholic we have a spaced off area for you, oh you are a Christian you have the big area over there for you lol.
I feel like since we are all energy and God is energy that at some form we are in someway part of God or he is part of us and that is why we can create our lives.
Also time is irrelevant time is a human concept, tomorrow does not exist yet, therefore anything can happen tomorrow.
In Rome there is a vault that holds all the most important documents in the world… I wonder if it holds the true bible in it, the original and other documents that would probably blow our minds.
I want to know more about where whatever created us came from, because even in evolution oh a bunch of matter came together and the big bang happened but why what caused it. If you really think about it quantum physics, science, religion, they all have a beginning point somewhere.
Something definitely created us look at the human mind, and the fact we can manifest things into existence.
I have seen things in my life evolution can not explain. But quantum physics and religion to an extent can.
Maybe we aren’t the first race in the universe maybe what religions call God is a race of beings that came before and mastered some form of “magic” or “powers” and created the universes. The world may never know
This is a very very important point that indicates how religion is so much of a culture-bound concept.
For thousands of years at leasts, we humans have viewed the gods we worship in the context of the natural environment as well as the institutions that were built up.
There’s a very interesting paper on how religions were been influenced by the natural environment with particular physical features - a harsh desert environment and a luscious tropical rainforest environment would definitely shape the way people in different regions viewed their gods.
At the same time, religions and human institutions can hardly be separated. Ideas of God as a father or king originated from the development of human institutions.
Anyway, once people started having faith in their religion, their religions became true for them. I would say it’s part of human psychology and is based on the idea that “your imagination becomes your reality”.
So for many religious people, miracles of their religion are really true to them and it’s hard to argue otherwise as a person who does not share their belief system.
Perhaps the concept one needs to understand would be that of something being “culture-bound”.
Yeeeeeeah, we’re not going here today, ya’ll. This topic has far too much potential to turn inflammatory and offensive to people. This is a very diverse community, with people from all over the world. We have an even more diverse group of lurkers. While I enjoy mulling about such topics myself, we must stay neutral in regards to politics and religion. Our goal is to help everyone become the best they can be – how they choose to walk that path is up to them.