Originally Posted by baal12
Air though, we can prove through science, it is seen as O2(though that is a subscript '2').
I said I wouldn't worship anything I cannot see, I do not worship air.
I don't believe in God, but I do believe we need religion. I think a lot of people stop and really think "What would God do to me if I did this?" and that it would stop a lot of crime.
No, that older man is wrong. God is essentially love, he loves you no more than he loves those rapists, those child molesters, those bigamists. There is no one group or person he loves more than another. Theoretically.
I am not ignorant of your belief, I have read the bible on my own, I have researched it and numerous other religions. I do know there are a ton of contradictions in the bible that seem to lean that it is not real, and that it was there.
It is said that religion was made up to fill in the gaps science could not yet explain because there were tons of civil uprisings because the people were scared.
Say there is an invisible hippo behind you. Is it there? I said it was, you say God is there. You can't say "well hippos can't be invisible, that's stupid" and maybe this one is. You can say "it needs to eat" well once again, this one doesn't. the special thing is that you cannot touch it or see it. But it is there because I said so.
Does that make sense? No, but I can contradict anything you say about it not being there, as you can do with God, but you oculd be accepting of other views too. I think people are pretty ignorant these days, and need to loosen up and learn some stuff.