I don't believe in God, i dont' believe in religion

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Originally posted by FasterThanLight
Is anyone familiar with Occam's Razor? The most logical explanation for something is the least complex one. This leads to "I see no God, therefore there is no God." Well, guess what? I'm not going to take sides. As Yoda would say, "My opinion matters not." Please take from Occam's Razor whatever you would like.

Regarding the Bible. It was written by Man as an interpretation of the "word of God". Any chance there were mistakes?

Regarding sin. What better way to keep the weak-minded from "misbehaving" than the threat of eternal damnation? If the only reason for a holier than thou attitude is to avoid going to hell, what the f is the point? Sacrifice personal freedom and enjoyment of life on the hope that there is a better life after death? One has to admit that one might be missing the only opportunity to enjoy consciousness. I refer back to Honda_Gurl's argument about what do you have to lose. I'm not picking on her. There's nothing wrong or right with living like there is/is not a God/Gods. I'll use the Mormon ritual of not using anything habit-forming. Can anyone honestly say that drinking beverages containing caffeine is reason enough to spend eternity in hell? What about the seven original sins.... Whoops, I got sucked in. Have a nice thread! Debating religion is interesting but difficult in person. Online, I say next to impossible, it is... Happy Honda'ing!!!!

Dude, Occam's Razor has no practical application even in science. Example, following this theory we never would of guess Hydrogen has a completely different way of molecular bonding, hence given hydrogen molecule completely different charateristics... We would still be wondering why Water is the only liquid that expands when it freezes... we would be no where close to the technology that we have today... I mean this Occam guy lived in the Midevil times... NOTHING good came out of that whole era... This guy was a crack pot with a new name for a old Idea... LAZINESS... if I can't see it.. it's not worth worring about.. To live your life by this philoshophy is Foolish... and to base your beliefe in god on it ... well that's beyond foolish ...

To expand on your comment about mistakes in the bible.... NO ... the greek version of the bible was only recopied by monks until the photocopier came about... for centuries, only churches owned a copy..... Monks took several years making one copy of the bible in greek, working 15-20 hours a day sitting at a desk coping the bible... The kept a human hair, and used this hair to space the letters in thier copy. They would only Copy one Greek character at a time, the wouldn't look at the word "THE" and then write "THE" in thier bible. The would look at "THE" and write "T" look at "THE" and write "H". If they messed up any letter, they would rip the page up and start that page over. Each finished page was inspected by a superior before continuing.... SO NO ... man didn't Mess this one up.

And the Mormons aren't really mainstream Christianity, in fact, they are a cult that believes in work based religion. No you won't go to hell for drinking coffee... you won't go to hell for smoking pot... you wont' go to hell for murder, rape, or cross dressing... You will go to hell becuase you didn't place your faith in christ and will have to answer for those sins.

The point of hell is not to scare you into wanting to go to heaven, hell was created for Satan, it will be satans prison when Jesus comes back. No he won't rule over it.... he will probably suffer in it more than anyone... Well anyway... Gods going throw all the none believers in their too.

And Happy Honda'ing was mine gosh darn it ..