ResidentAtheist

Its too bad i choose not to believe in superstition or, in the pope, the word of a single man.
The pope shouldnt exist. two reasons.
1) your not supposed to worship anyone other than your god, yet you worship the pope.
2)the pope is chosen by cardinals, not the last pope. if it was the last popes wishes than you could have some basis to claim god chose the next pope, considering your god speaks through the pope.

Its too bad you have to believe in the pope to worship your god, its too bad you have to worship your bible. its all contradictions and you shouldnt need someone telling you how to live your life.
I'm happy you dont completely disregard evolution, but in that sentence of yours i would have felt happier to hear you say you believe int he bible and god, not the bible. evolution and the bible can not mix. and i mean litteraly, the bible, the book, not the faith can not mix with science.
why do i need to believe in Religion Change?

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LiveUninhibited

I can ask the same question of Christians. If God is love, then why would he send people to hell who were mostly good people but didn't accept Christ as their lord and savior? It seems pretty ridiculous to value somebody's faith in the unknowable over whether they hurt other people. Oh wow he sent himself/son to be crucified and spend a short spell in hell. Oh, the sacrifice! Give me a break - there's nothing all that special about that story. If God is omnipotent, and omnibenevolent, does he allow children to die pointless deaths to make a point to the rest of us? And what might that point be? That we're merely his clay there for his amusement?

The world is a cold, dark place outside of the microcosms of love that people manage to kindle. If God controls the world, he is cruel and callous. A more likely scenario is that the physical world is all there is. The sooner people realize that, the sooner they'll start taking their relationships with each other more seriously, and not love their imaginary friend above all else.

emptypepsi

Precisely - Humans are extremely social animals. It's part of how we evolved to become. Part of being a social animal is maintaining a society or community. Integral to that aspect of human life are bonds, such as love (add to that, friendship as well).

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