The idea of God is old. People needed it in times during the black plague where the shit hit the fan and there was no hope (and during the black plague by the way, the church didn't do jack squat. and neither did praying). People also needed it when they couldn't explain something. "Our crops have gone to shit because we haven't prayed enough" bullshit. Your crops have gone to shit because of the lack of water, or lack of care, or they were hit with frost, or they went to shit due to a pest eating and infecting them. etc etc. In today's modern world we need people to stand up, get dirty, and help rather then rely on some deity (who doesn't exist by the way) to help get you through everyday life because your life is "so shit" without him. hard work pays off; praying doesn't.

I think your confused at what exactly people pray for and what it means to them

Edited November 7, 201312 yr by LifezHatred

Until a man can create another human being from scratch, create an animal from scratch, create an ENTIRE ever expanding universe from scratch, my belief in god will never fade. =)

So why did god do this and science didn't?

Since we're getting all religious I might as well share my two cents

>God is not dead

>God was not created, he was always there, and always will be

>Mankind is dead because we are naturally sinners due to what Adam did in the Garden

>We can only be saved through faith in Jesus Christ who died for our salvation

>Friedrich must have made a lot of money off of his "philosphy"

>2 billion Christians on earth think otherwise

 

This. even tho im muslim.

For those who have not yet emancipated themselves from their religion(s), good luck sheep.

Great powers are at work in our universe, but I highly doubt any of those are relating to or coming from a god or any other "supernatural" being.

Edited November 8, 201312 yr by bjeurn

It's getting hot in here ;)

Since we're getting all religious I might as well share my two cents

>God is not dead

>God was not created, he was always there, and always will be

>Mankind is dead because we are naturally sinners due to what Adam did in the Garden

>We can only be saved through faith in Jesus Christ who died for our salvation

>Friedrich must have made a lot of money off of his "philosphy"

>2 billion Christians on earth think otherwise

I fall under a denomination of Christianity

"I believe" should be after each one of these >

It's implied.

Edited November 8, 201312 yr by vibe check

In The ******** Science section 125, The Madman; Friedrich Nietzsche first stated the iconic phrase, "God is Dead".

 

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”

 

This is probably one of the most true quotes that still applies today. God is dead.

You're a fool. God is the reason I haven't killed myself. I went through multiple mental disorders, Adhd, Generalized Anxiety Disoder, Ocd, ect. And I was bullied for 3 years. I've been through mental Hell and back, I pray to God and he answers even though I don't deserve a single thing, if you can be as spoiled as people are now days and not realise this, Grow Up.

I'm in tears day by day, being bullied, going through Anxiety attacks, MASSIVE Ocd attacks, and you sit behind your computer screen in your comfy chair and type that?

Look at the Philippines, they travel 3 hours one way multiple times a week to go to Church in over 100 Degree weather cramped together with 30 other people, they make 4 Dollars a day working 10 hours of hard labor and still tithe, They are going through the World's worst recorded Typhoon in history, and they still worship God with all their might.

My teacher, Mrs. Ross, was homeless countless times as a kid, had drunks for parents, has been to probably 20-30+ funerals, and diligently runs a school for 10 grand a year, a Christian school, and She STILL worships God.

I know a man who just lost his wife to cancer who he was married to for around 60 years, he came to church the following Sunday praising God for the time he had with her, regardless of his broken heart.

God has answered my dad's prayers constantly, my teacher's, I don't understand how a Country formed off of Christian principles, heck, even the world itself, refuses to see this, it's disgusting.

I'm ashamed that anyone could talk bad of the Lord that continues to shine light on the just and unjust, and refuse to see what he does.

My teacher prayed for a man to be saved for over 20 years, her brother.

He came to her door with a broken belt, he tryed to kill himself. After 20 years, that happened, he lived, and Mrs. Ross showed him the gospel, and he's a great man.

He went from a broken drug addict to a healthy man, parent to a young healthy girl, happy, and living a GREAT life.

Now tell me again how God is dead...

This is some deep shit bro. Too deep for me when I'm this tired. I agree, he's dead. That is all.

Edited November 12, 201312 yr by Gwyn

Adam + Eve = 1 Child for humanity to survive they would have to interbreed?

#ReligiousLogics

I think this is so true, people talk about praying to god and how it makes things better - it only makes things better because it puts reassurance in their head that things will get better, therefore; the law of attraction states that things will get better. If you get sick - you don't get on your knees and pray to god to make you better, you go to the doctors and get medicine - GOD IS NOT REAL !

 

 

EDIT: TO ALL OF YOU WHO BELIEVE IN GOD - prove to us that he is real, pray to him and have him come down to earth - otherwise, he's a made up character just like santa and the tooth fairy. ;)

Edited November 12, 201312 yr by bradbailey21

I think this is so true, people talk about praying to god and how it makes things better - it only makes things better because it puts reassurance in their head that things will get better, therefore; the law of attraction states that things will get better. If you get sick - you don't get on your knees and pray to god to make you better, you go to the doctors and get medicine - GOD IS NOT REAL !

 

 

EDIT: TO ALL OF YOU WHO BELIEVE IN GOD - prove to us that he is real, pray to him and have him come down to earth - otherwise, he's a made up character just like santa and the tooth fairy.

 

prove to me you have a brain, i cant see it, smell it, touch it.. so it must not be real.  your brain must be made up?

 

just cause you cant use your senses to know that He's there doesnt mean He's not there

Therefore, I am a god.

 

I think this is so true, people talk about praying to god and how it makes things better - it only makes things better because it puts reassurance in their head that things will get better, therefore; the law of attraction states that things will get better. If you get sick - you don't get on your knees and pray to god to make you better, you go to the doctors and get medicine - GOD IS NOT REAL !

 

 

EDIT: TO ALL OF YOU WHO BELIEVE IN GOD - prove to us that he is real, pray to him and have him come down to earth - otherwise, he's a made up character just like santa and the tooth fairy.

 

prove to me you have a brain, i cant see it, smell it, touch it.. so it must not be real.  your brain must be made up?

 

just cause you cant use your senses to know that He's there doesnt mean He's not there

 

 

Basic x rays will show you that i have a brain, stupid.