Christainity Or Atheism?

This is a religious attitude I find quite common among people. Basically this idea of god has created into many of it's believers a (pardon the irony) hollier-than-thou attitude toward people of different faiths, which I not only think is pure ignorance in a golden goblet, but is annoying as heck.

Most faiths possess believers who act like that. My god, there is even a group of Christian evangelists who live in my neighborhood. Their consistent preaching from door to door is a pure nuisance that proves nothing. But you see, most faiths have those kind of people. Some Islamics are known to threaten people who disagree with their culture. Heck, speaking out against Buddhism or killing a cow in India can get you thrown into prison. This "holier-than-thou" attitude is not just confined to Christianity.

Heh, even some Atheists have a habit of shoving opinions down peoples throats. Not by violence, but through pure and outright smugness, and their tendency to refer to research rather than personal experience.

The truth is, all faiths adopt that kind of behavior for some of their followers. I could have sworn that was common knowledge by now. :P

Well I posed this question to Jerenz for his logic circuits to process, since I seem to not know what the heck I'm talking about :P

There are many things that we humans can't answer. One of those things is religion. There is no clear and definitive answer to religion; you just go with what you believe in.

Kyle What I meant came out wrong. The thing is evolution had nothing to do with the creation of us, because evolution takes for say a snake and says it evolves into a bird, like WTF? I do believe though that Adaptation had a role in creating the earth, besides from God.

I believe in neither. I live by the book of GLaDOS. No, just kidding, I'm undecided. When there's scientific evidence proving that god doesn't or does exist, then I will have decided.

Kyle What I meant came out wrong. The thing is evolution had nothing to do with the creation of us, because evolution takes for say a snake and says it evolves into a bird, like WTF? I do believe though that Adaptation had a role in creating the earth, besides from God.

Perhaps you're the one misinformed?

Please do research the theory.

Im actually neither Taoism is my belief, its more like karma than anything else, you do something good, something good will happen to you and verse visa. It also states that sexual intercourse is the exchange of energy to your partner( Girl gives her energey, guys gives his energy) do not say anything inappropriate about that statement please. It also states that we as people should maintain a steady sex life, havin too much will cause your body to be corrupt and dirty will to little will do the opposite, you become weak and unhealthy. But i do believe there is a higher being, Jesus was real( maybe not magical, but influential) and the bible does provide some facts but also fiction. To me religion is another part of society that divides us, and causes people to discriminate others of a differant religion. CAN'T REALLY WIN

Im not miss informed. There is a reason I became a Christain and why I am still a Christain. I know alot about science, ive done my research and I have learned alot from school. And im not even close to being done school yet. I know you may think my decision is wrong but I am not a dumb person, I know what is what.

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Jerenz, why does there have to be a god? Maybe the answer or reasoning behind the existence of these things are beyond our comprehension at the moment, even they may never be known. However why does that mean we have to have a god to create all this?

If god creating the universe, and before there was nothing, than how was god existing when he created the universe, and all that existed? Spontaneous generation? By saying there has to be a god, your also saying there has to be a force mightier than god himself to create \"god\" yet in the christian and other faiths, \"god\" is almighty, all-powerful, and yet, you say there is a force higher than god?

Logic, my friend.

Logic? Here's some logic for you. I find it to be too much of a coincidence that Earth's tilted axis, atmosphere, size, tectonic activity and its distance from the Sun to be too suitable to have been formed by sheer coincidence. If Earth was any closer or further from the Sun than it already is, we wouldn't be here. If we were too close, radiation would burn up most life. e.g Venus. If we were any further, the greenhouse gas effect on Earth would not be efficient enough to allow suitable temperatures for life to be sustained. e.g. Mars. Our distance from our parent star is...well, perfect! As a result, we have millions of species living on our planet, and one specific species is capable of self-awareness, reasoning and logic! Our species has moved on through the ages, adapting new technologies to thrive to what we have today, and possibly to an even brighter future. (Or grim future, whatever you feel is suitable.)

Now, do you honestly feel that Earth and life was created out of sheer coincidence? Was the Sun formed out of sheer coincidence? Was our galaxy formed out of sheer coincidence? Was our entire universe formed out of sheer coincidence? Did science really create all that we have right now?

No, it didn't. Alone, it could not have. Hence proving Einstein's statement: "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMUDXO4xkW8

Think about this-
"It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything."