Maybe, but you can answer the why question perfectly well without religion at all.
Anyway, which religion? They all claim to be the one true religion, so how do you know the difference? Which one ISN'T lying? Present your evidence.
A sin is a willful act against the will of god, right?
How can a child know the will of god if it takes an adult praying and meditating on god to know it? How can an infant know ANYTHING about good and evil?
Please, show me proof that infants can think abstractly and understand the concept of god and sin.
An infant is born with the sins of it's previous life. It does not know good or evil, that comes when they mature enough to deal with it.
What harm is there believing in fiction for a spell?
There are no non-biblical sources validating the existance of jesus or any of the purported events. Nothing was mentioned outside of the bible by anyone alive during his lifetime let alone anyone born during his lifetime.
Science will give you the means to do so, but religion will give you the reason to do.
What evidence do you have that God and Jesus do not exist?
The exact same as evidence that Santa does not exist.
you could very well be living a fantasy, holding on to a delusion that there is no God.
A delusion is a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.
the problem is that most atheist cannot prove that God does not exist....duh....The problem is that most religious people don't care and don't want to hear about modern physics (eg. big bang, relativity, quantum mechanics and string theory) and they have not worked in a lab and seen evolution at work in bacteria. This is the "superior evidence".
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
All it takes is ignorance which is an inherently human trait anyway. I feel like Atheists really show their lack of understanding of the human condition. The entire point of religion is to give the average joe a couple of critical tools they can use deal with the complexities of life.
the problem is that most atheist cannot prove that God does not exist....duh....
Must be nice to go through life with such a simple mind. You're real question should have been "Christians cannot prove the god they believe is real exists". That is your positive claim. We are just mearly waiting for your evidence of believing this.
Cannot prove a negative and all that jazz. I know. Complex stuff for you.
Actually Christians can, but not with the "evidence" you require. That takes faith, a step beyond what you are comfortable with and accept there is something greater than you.
I see God's existence everyday. I see His proof everyday, in the little and the large. From the grain of sand on a beach to string theory, I see His hand in all of it. That is proof for me He is.
Unfortunatly faith is not proof. So you'll never be able to prove what you believe in. Again. Takes a simple mind to do that and just believe what you're told without any backing evidence as well as ignoring all evidence to the contrary
Unfortunatly faith is not proof. So you'll never be able to prove what you believe in. Again. Takes a simple mind to do that and just believe what you're told without any backing evidence as well as ignoring all evidence to the contrary.
the problem is that most atheist cannot prove that God does not exist....duh....
I have asked before and you still have not given any evidence to the contrary. But you do change the subject well thus avoiding answering.
Yeah all religious idiots come up with this stupid "argument". It isn't an argument. Science is about proofing things not disproving them. Since religion says there is a god, is must also give proof of it. You can't come up with a theory without a single shred of evidence and then asking other to disprove it. No, that's not even close how science works (but then religions fanatics never get that either).
You know, it's been scientifically proven that the lack of religious belief (eg. atheism) directly correlates with higher intelligence. And here the circle ends. because it's obvious that you get annoyed and angry to having to reply to the same stupid arguments day in and day out and they still never get it.
I think what has been proven beyond doubt is that it takes just as much faith to be an atheist as it does to be a believer.
It's also proven that some atheists in this thread are incredulous liars by claiming there is evidence to the contrary, then retreated behind the wall of "not proving a negative" when called out on it.
As an example, what if I said I have no organs, bones, blood, etc., my body is filled with delicious pasta but yet I live? I am not going to provide any evidence of this extraordinary claim.
So now my only ridiculous position to take is telling you that you are not able to disprove that I don't have pasta in place of normal human parts, or to admit maybe I'm wrong.
This is the position some of you of faith are taking... that these ridiculous claims can't be unproven, so therefore you're just as right as an atheist. Your claims are the ones that go against the natural order of everything we know. The burden is on the faithful to provide evidence that jesus was the son of god, that he performed miracles that cannot otherwise be explained, etc. etc. The burden of proof is on the faithful to prove that their religion is the right one, that mohammad is allah's prophet, that jesus is god's divine son, etc.
He can see God because God lives within him. Anyone who has "faith" in God because someone told him to is indeed simple-minded and I would highly question this "faith"....so you're framing this wrongly in my opinion. What you don't seem to understand is that faith comes from a deeply personal relationship with our creator which is evidence that's impossible to ignore. The kind of rational evidence you seem to want doesn't exist....however the spiritual evidence you actually need does. You are not the center of this universe as your ego would have you believe, God is the center of this universe and when your ego dies to this truth then you will know to the very depth of your soul what faith actually means. Surrender is incredibly difficult as our egos hold the lie dear. This may sound like mumbo-jumbo to you but I thought it was worth saying on the outside chance that you're actually open to attempting to understand something that's relatively common in our society but obviously completely foreign to you. I'm sure others more articulate than myself can explain this better...but I thought I'd give it a shot.Unfortunatly faith is not proof. So you'll never be able to prove what you believe in. Again. Takes a simple mind to do that and just believe what you're told without any backing evidence as well as ignoring all evidence to the contrary.
You don't have to provide "evidence" as we know that isn't true. Some things you know aren't true...you don't need to provide evidence.
That was a garbage analogy.
But I am able to disprove it. Heard of an X-ray? ...or I could simply cut you open.
Your analogy is terrible.
Your analogy isn't remotely the same as what you wrote here. I can easliy disprove your "pasta parts" claim. That's a scientific claim, and a ridiculous analogy because it can be disproven quite easily and by anyone with a knife.
We also know that it is impossible for a virgin to become pregnant without the use of modern medicine, it's impossible to fit 2 of every single animal on a boat, it's impossible for the entire earth to flood, etc... That doesn't stop you from believing those things.
What "evidence to the contrary"? This has been requested at least once in this thread.
This is where you guys get empty-headed. You claim, again, to have evidence to the contrary, then say you cannot "prove a negative".
Again, where's this "evidence to the contrary"?
These things are learning experiences. They are practice for developing critical thinking skills.
Children are told that these things are real, but as they gain life experiences they start to realize that what they know of the Santa or the Easter Bunny does not fit into what they know of the world, and so they start to doubt. Many parents create elaborate stories to try and maintain the ruse, but eventually the childs skepticism wins out and they stop believing.
The Jesus/God myth should be the same thing, but for some reason people keep believing in that one even after they have seen plenty of evidence that it is not real.