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(10,091 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)LakeArenal
(28,928 posts)Whats with that?
live love laugh
(13,263 posts)NowISeetheLight
(3,943 posts)Was He grooming them?
Aristus
(66,588 posts)JuJuChen
(2,219 posts)God is love, and if you're doing anything but loving you're doing it wrong.
LakeArenal
(28,928 posts)Jesús I think might represent all the positive god-like qualities.
But I find the Christian god to be vengeful and cruel. I think this god, widely represented as a man, has been holding a 6000 year grudge against a woman who ate a piece of fruit. Both a failing by the infallible god who creates fallible people.
The Christian god sends plagues and destroys cities. Turns poor fallible creations into pillars of salt.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)"God" is an anthropomorphic concept, created in and projected by human minds. No such thing as a virgin birth, no holy ghost, walking on water, turning water into wine, a 3 day old corpse that gets up and starts walking around, no escaping earth's gravity to ascend into without a rocket and oxygen supply. No heaven. No hell.
There can be humans acting towards one another with compassion and loving kindness. Just as humans can cultivate hate and aggression towards one another.
LakeArenal
(28,928 posts)I respect their desire to have faith in something.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)There is no creator god in Buddhism, because everything arises from previous causes and conditions. So who or what would have created a creator god?
LakeArenal
(28,928 posts)I personally do not believe in divinity. Thats it.
As to how we got to this point in the universe, for me, would be very amateurish at best.
I think Hawking said god is superfluous to the creation of the universe.
I think Neil De Grasse has made some comments that I support.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Do tell.
Name one of the biggest that does not discriminate against women?
Name a Christian country that forces women to cover their faces and/or bodies? Name a Christian country that does not allow women to drive? Please, name it. I'll wait.
Do you know of those countries that do not allow women to drive? To vote? Do you? They are not Christian countries.
I'm not religious, but let's not serve out the scorn for Christianity without filling the plates of those other religions that are worse.
Mariana
(14,864 posts)The church in the OP is a Christian church.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)In that case, the person I responded to was doing the same thing. The OP was humorous and made a point. The poster took it further, and I responded to that. So take it up with them.
But that's neither here nor there.
I expected crickets, and that's what I got.
GenThePerservering
(1,934 posts)By political expediency and male patriarchy. Studies of Islam do not support them.
roamer65
(36,749 posts)No questions asked.
WWJD.
MagickMuffin
(16,015 posts)Gods: Let us make man in OUR image!
AllaN01Bear
(19,085 posts)Behind the Aegis
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