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Done! Christopher Hitchens....one of my "truth heroes"! We lovers of truth and reason already miss him tremendously. Thanks for sending the petition my way.
ReplyDelete"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
ReplyDeleteRichard Dawkins
Just a question....
ReplyDeleteDo you believe in love?
Of course I do!
ReplyDeleteWe based on theory most people have on religion we should not believe in love either. There are scentific explantion for why we love people and there is no true proof of love.
ReplyDeleteI by no means trying to saying no to believe in love. When I was younger I did not believe in any form of religion or love and it seemed to me that they go hand in hand. We know love exists because we feel it (agreed?) it is the same with people who are true beleivers they feel God in the heart and that is suppose to move to being a good person and living a "Godly Life." I understand that the argument might be how people will say they beleive in God but act like they don't. My rebutle to that is how many battered wives say the husbands love them?
I know that the point of your blog is to debate that thought of religion but I am trying to show that the true religious people believe the same way people love.
I hope this makes sense I know it kind sounds like a rambling thought.
Point taken, and a very good point in all actuality. The thing is that love is something tangible and provable from the stand point of the human emotion. A deity by no means is an emotion. Its a delusional aspect of the human genome. We as humans know what an emotion is, we have love, hate, sorrow and many others. But to compare the theory of deity(s) to emotion is like comparing apples and oranges. Your comparison us easily confused with this discussion of the existence of a God.
ReplyDeleteLove is an emotion. You can feel an emotion towards a deity, like Laura feels that she loves God and I feel that I hate something that doesn't exist. I don't see the reasoning in the mythical stories behind the God that Laura admires. I do see the reasoning behind ignorant, illiterate sheep herdsman worshiping a deity that they feel is the creator of their fishbowl.
The reason someone feels there is a god is the same reason why they feel safe in their parents arms, the same reason why Laura feels good in yours. Security. She knows you are there, you love her, you will protect her and you will do anything in your power to make her feel secure. The difference between you and a god is that you prove your love outright through real love and tangible actions. People feel love from a god because they need to feel that there is something better after their life that may not be so great at the moment. People rely on meditating to a celestial being to help them or to guide them, when in reality, its the relaxation of meditation and them thinking through the problems themselves that got them through life's ordeals.
Notice, when someone survives something and has a life threatening thing like cancer and they survive, God did it all. Not the doctors. But if they die its the doctors fault and now the family relies on God and a lawyer to bring them lots of money to rid them of their pain.
I got off subject... My point is, you feel their is a god because you don't want to cease to exist. You are scared of drifting into the never...
If you read your Bible and feel there is a God, tell me which passages. I read the Bible and I see a celestial dictator who has no remorse, no love and full of nothing but vengeful hate and fury. Much like an Alpha male among other primates.
Love is a basic feeling that we as human beings can observe in other animals in the animal kingdom. But, we are the only ones who decide to murder each other over interpretations of ancient texts... over feelings.
I fear death, just as you do. But the realization of death being eternal is a struggle you can come to terms with once and you can let go and be happy.
I have people tell me all the time, you better get right with Jesus or God, or you will go to hell. It isn't a Hell that I fear. I don't believe in a hell. I cannot fear something that to me does not exist. But I nor you can prove it. If on the day of my demise, I float upon some pearly gates, before I hear my verdict passed down from this omnipotent, omniscient being, I hope he has the fortitude to tell me, "I admire your honesty and your ability and fortitude and your diligent search for your truth. Now go to Hell, Hitch and Einstein has been waiting on you."
Question everything, trust nothing.
Yes, love is an emotion, but we can all observe love. Taylor, you say "There is no true proof of love"? I'm baffled as to how anyone can say that. Of course, there's proof of love from other human beings! We all show love to each other by our actions. As Justin said, love is definitely tangible. To me if someone says they love you, but they don't show that they love you in their actions toward you....then they don't really love you very much or at all. Love is observable....just like hate or fear or any other emotion is observable. Now the love of God should be observable, too, if he exists. I don't see any proof of that in this world...that your God really cares about people. The only "proof" about God's love is in the invented proof in the minds of the people who profess to believe in him. If you look around at all, you will see little proof of God's love but plenty of proof of our love for each other....and of our hate for each other, too. Just making statements about an imaginary figure as being "loving" does not make it so. The "love" you learn in religious teaching is simply that....someone told you that God loves you...there is no tangible proof of that except what you invent in your mind. To religious people, everything is rationalized out to be God's will, so it must be good, right?, and a product of love. But, that love you're speaking of is really the love we human beings experience with each other.....that tangible love we have experienced through our relationships. The religious indoctrinators then transfer that real love over into some mysterious intangible "love" with an invisible being. Sorry, real love CAN be proven. Just think about what the people in your life do every day to prove they love you! It's real...you not only feel it, but you see it manifested in their actions toward you and in their words. But if your religious "love" is intangible, as you say, then it cannot be proven. It's just something you want to believe is true. If you say that you "feel it in your heart", then that is you experiencing human love as you know it and experience it with other human beings....you are just transferring that emotion over to a supernatural being. So "love" is not derived from God...it is derived from US....we human beings and other animals who show it and live it every day. We take that real love between each other and want to attribute it to a higher, invisible power. So, the love you feel toward God or the love you think you feel from him is really your own love within yourself which you are projecting.
ReplyDeleteI was raised in the church...I know exactly the feeling you're talking about....it's just plain old human love mixed with some mass hysteria when you go to church.