I believe in a God, do you?

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• Yeh.His name is PELE.
  I bet ya didn't know that the best god,the top god,numero uno god,was/is a football player.
  See,it's true,ya can learn summink new every day.

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  by WITTY 1 on May 25th, 2007

• Actually, before the immortal Pele was born (I agree with you about his athletic skills), Pele was the name of the Hawaiian volcano goddess. :)

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  by Ankhorite on December 30th, 2007

• Physics?

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  by 23Skidoo on June 7th, 2008

• What about them?

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  by yup. on June 8th, 2008

• Everything else would exist because of science. Big bang theory, evolution, and many other scientific theories have plenty of hard evidence that show they exist, unlike god, which has 0 evidence. The only reason you believe in god is because millions of other people do. It's like people who thought the earth was flat or thought the sun and other planets revolved around the earth; just because a lot of people believe it, doesn't mean it's true.

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  by mikedb05 on June 9th, 2008

• No, I don't give a fuck as to what other people think. If everything else exists because of science, then why does science exist?

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  by yup. on June 9th, 2008

• the big bang made EVERYTHING in the universe

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  by Brawl on July 20th, 2008

• Science exists in order to advance mankind and improve our lives, plus it does tend to find out the truth as well.

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  by Retrovampire on August 14th, 2008

• So you're saying science exists because of mankind... not the other way around.

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  by yup. on August 18th, 2008

• Depends, scientific pursuit exists because of mankind. The findings of science exist regardless.
  
  Are you talking of natural science? This is the study of the natural world, the natural world still would exist regardless.
  
  So yes the practice exists because of mankind, the findings exist regardless.

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  by Retrovampire on August 18th, 2008

• So then tell me; how could there be "findings" without mankind there to find them?

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  by yup. on August 19th, 2008

• "the findings exist regardless", the observed exists regardless, the earth exists regardless.
  The practice of looking at the earth exists because of mankind, the earth exists regardless.

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  by Retrovampire on August 19th, 2008

• "Findings" are of a physical nature regardless whether they are found or not.
  The practice of finding something exists because of mankind, but what they find exists regardless.

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  by Retrovampire on August 19th, 2008

• So if it doesn't come from mankind, where does it come from?

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  by yup. on August 19th, 2008

• If what doesnt come from mankind?

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  by Retrovampire on August 19th, 2008

• Well, let me just ask it this way: why do you think there is existence?

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  by yup. on August 21st, 2008

• Are you talking about what coursed existence or the reason for existence?
  As for a course for ultimate existence of anything & everything...no idea. The pre-big bang, big bang etc and what came before it, we will probably never know.
  As for a reason, well answering the first course will answer this. Or you could say there is no reason, does there need to be?

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  by Retrovampire on August 22nd, 2008

• Too bad I can only give you a -1 for that answer

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  by Mephistopheles on September 12th, 2008

• Down rating someones answer just because of their religious beliefs is not the atheist way. We may be expected to end up in hell but lets not fulfill all their expectations of us.

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  by Retrovampire on September 12th, 2008

• Sorry I didn't catch that comment before, Retro. Anyway, I was referring to what you think coursed existence. I definitely don't think there has to be a reason for existence, but it just seems illogical to me to think that some form of intelligence had nothing to do with the creation of the universe and everything in it.

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  by yup. on September 12th, 2008

• Here is possibly the biggest area of logical disagreement between believers and nonbelievers, as I can not see why a deity of any kind would in any way be involved. I see no reason why any of this should or should not require a god cause. If you laid out all the possible answers for our existence, even those beyond our understanding, then that alone shows up one answer of a god and millions of answers not involving a god. Many of the alternate answers are much more believable than a magical super being, and far more logical regardless of how difficult or mind bending they are to understand.

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  by Retrovampire on September 13th, 2008

• So, share them with me.

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  by yup. on September 14th, 2008

• Yea.. share them because I disagree and will bet your "millions of answers" is bull. No one has to believe but just because you do not believe does not mean you have to use fiction in your debate.

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  by Snooch on September 14th, 2008

• If you expect me to try and explain other people’s theories, forget it. You can read them for yourself, there are many on answerbag alone not to mention the many thousands on the internet. What do you want? Scientific theory? The big bang? Steady state? Ekpyrotic universe? Colliding universe? Dark matter? None of these explain the origin of the universe or existence. The origin is before all of this, before creation as you would put it. The closest science has come has been Penrose-Hawking Singularity Theorems, but its not proven. Don’t look to test me on this in order to dismantle my theories because I have none.
  I have heard hundreds of scientific, philosophical, religious, superstitious, flight of fancy, science fictional, poetic, pathetic and just plain ridicules explanations for the beginning of all things…

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  by Retrovampire on September 15th, 2008

• …There are millions. And not “mine”, as “smooch” seems to suggest. Fiction, of course! Only one can be true, if any at all, so all the others would have to be fiction. I have no idea which one may be correct (if any), but I can certainly sift out a lot of the illogical ones.
  For me (and this would be of no surprise to you) that would be anything that involves magic, of any kind. For this reason alone all the god related theories (and there are a lot of them too) go straight out the window. I don’t believe a god started everything off, and I don’t believe saying a god started everything answers anything.

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  by Retrovampire on September 15th, 2008

• It's "Snooch" and you lost me in all your dribble.
  Have a great day Revo

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  by Snooch on September 15th, 2008

• Dribble? It’s called plain English.
  Anyway...Sweet Charity.: I do not mean to sound demeaning to religions, after the "big-bang" both science and religion have many theories, one based on physical, cosmological and mathematical science and the other based upon a book or books. I happen to side with the science, but so what! The big question is what came before everything else..science and religion can not answer this, but have theories. The problem with the religious theories though is that God always existed first, yet we are speaking of pre-existence, before God.

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  by Retrovampire on September 15th, 2008

• All that above, is dribble to me. Whatever though, you can side with whoever you want. What you eat, doesn't make me fat.
  Have a good one.

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  by Snooch on September 15th, 2008

• "What you eat, doesn't make me fat", this suggests you believe what you do because it makes you feel good? Fulfilled? It takes a bit more for me to believe something.

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  by Retrovampire on September 16th, 2008

• It seems to me, the simple notion of "pre-existence" is damn near impossible for any human to understand, and maybe that's the way God wanted it. Can you imagine a time when there wasn't time? Hell, I can't even make sense out of that question.
  Still, though, if you admittedly have no idea as to the course of existence, then why completely rule out the idea of a deity that exists or once existed?

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  by yup. on September 16th, 2008

• In simple terms, it means believe what you want, it does not have any bearing on me. Vice/versa. It is that simple.
  Hope that clarified it for you.
  I am not religious, I am of faith. Faith in God and only God. You cannot disprove God anymore than you say we cannot prove Him. We have reached an empasse.

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  by Snooch on September 16th, 2008

• I agree...on the surface the idea of an existence seems quite simple...only after scratching away at the surface it then becomes a major headache. I admit the idea of a deity of some kind is a possibility...but I give it no more credit than I would of any other magical being.

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  by Retrovampire on September 16th, 2008

• Now let’s just say way, way in the future mankind discovers some kind of life force, an energy, a vapour of kinds that existed at the beginning of time. What do you think we would make of that? Now religion would instantly say its God, or at the very least the holy spirit (they will probably fall out over that one), some atheists may even convert. But I would not even start to think any of that, another life form is just another life form, certainly not something to be worshiped.

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  by Retrovampire on September 16th, 2008

• Well then, we're on similar pages. I just think there actually was some sort of life force at the beginning of time that created everything, because I've yet to hear something that makes more sense. That's how I define "God." I'm not referring to any religious views or anything like that; I'm agnostic.

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  by yup. on September 18th, 2008

• I had a similar view for many years and counted myself as agnostic. For a long time I never thought about it much, but over the last couple of years I come to realise that atheist fits my way of thinking much better.
  Maybe if you dropped the god title it would make even more sense? A life form is only a life form, what ever that form maybe, even if as yet it is beyond our imagination, even if it is responsible for our creation...its just another form of life. Why tag it with such a crudely absurd name as a god?

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  by Retrovampire on September 19th, 2008

• your question doesn't make sense.

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  by annie03 on July 23rd, 2009

• Sorry annie03...who`s question? Sweet Charity`s?

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  by Retrovampire on July 23rd, 2009

• yes, Sweet Charity's original question. Thanks for clarifying that.

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  by annie03 on July 24th, 2009

• I suppose the definition of "god" must come into play on this one. It seems to me that a being of either greater or lesser intelligence has created us, or we were a complete accident. I define "god" as that being of greater intelligence.

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  by yup. on July 28th, 2009

• I would say that I’m not too happy with the word "accident" as to how life began. Life was an inevitability of its environment; it pretty much had no choice.
  It’s kind of how water is an inevitable consequence of Oxygen and Hydrogen in certain environments.

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  by Retrovampire on July 28th, 2009

• While I can understand Sweet Charity's desire for a heroic and romantic explanation, I have to agree with Retrovampire. Science can explain the mysteries of life. Art can show us the beauty and mystique of it. Revel in your relationships with fellow humans instead of pondering and worshiping imagined authority.

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  by annie03 on July 28th, 2009

• When did I insinuate that I had a desire for a "heroic and romantic" explanation? Hell, I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
  
  Actually, let me back up one more time. My initial response was, obviously, "...why else would anything exist?" So, really, I'm not talking about the existence of life, I'm talking about existence itself. Why would anything exist without something there to create it?

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  by yup. on July 29th, 2009

• So why would that "something" "God" "Being" "What ever" exist before "we" existed? Your logic cancels itself out.
  If "existence" requires a god to create it, then how does a god come to exist? Its completely circular and just doesn’t work.

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  by Retrovampire on July 29th, 2009

• I didn't mean to offend you sweet charity. It just seems like the desire for an explanation leads to "beliefs" that just, in my opinion, are fantasies. Like believing in Superman, or Santa Claus.

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  by annie03 on July 29th, 2009

• Why would god exist, if he has no creator?

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  by Tahuti on November 15th, 2009

• You have a good point. Religious people say that the universe didn't pop out of nowhere, yet god did.
  ??????????

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  by Brawl on November 15th, 2009

• Something had to have always existed, everyone knows that. That which always existed must have had all of the universe's mass and energy, and later created the universe. That leaves three options:
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  1. God always existed
  2. Some inanimate infintesimal spec always existed
  3. The entire universe as it is now always existed
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  And very few people believe in the third option. So God didn't "pop out of nowhere" he just existed, as something must have.

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  by POP Fan on November 20th, 2009

• What about the universe always existing in other forms as the one we have today, no one knows what happened before the big bang or if this is even the only universe, maybe there are endless universes going through processes like the big bang all the time, either way, there are no evidence of god but lots for the universe.

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  by Tahuti on November 21st, 2009

• Obviously there's evidence for the universe, if the universe didn't exists how would we?

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  by POP Fan on November 21st, 2009

• Its a common miss-conception that when discussing the "Big Bank" theory people think that before the big bang nothing at all existed, like even the darkness didn’t exist, not even the void of space, which is why many struggle to get their head fully around the subject. The big bang theory is based upon the concept that the universe medium, ie: the apparent nothingness of space, has always existed. The Universe as we know it today exploded into that void, and as “Tahuti” has said, it may well have done this billions of times, taking billions of years to grow and then collapse....each time being different but the medium always existing.
  Even when using the big bang theory, the void medium always existed. So it’s not like the universe actually came from nowhere.

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  by Retrovampire on November 21st, 2009

• So you see the "three options" as stated are in fact wrong.
  3rd option is in fact the old steady state theory, which was ditched as wrong some years back.
  2nd option is supposed to be the big bank theory, but "POP Fan`s" interpretation of it is wrong.
  1st option forgets to mention the million and one other "Being’s” that could be used in the place of the word god. ie: The Force, Thor, Pixies, fairies...what ever, the list could be endless.

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  by Retrovampire on November 21st, 2009

• God refers to any creator.
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  I know that the universe didn't spring from nothing, but the only thing that was first existant in the big bang theory was the particles that later made planets. Unlike some Christians can be, I've researched the subject before saying anything. The scientific comunity says that, moving closer to the point where the big bang occured (meaning earlier in time), mass and energy became one. This means that, before the big bang, we had simply a void and a small area containing all the mass and energy of the universe.

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  by POP Fan on November 21st, 2009

• So that means, either this mass and energy always existed, or God existed and created that mass and energy (assuming the big bang theory is foolproof). So the second option isn't interpreted wrong, just not explained fully.

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  by POP Fan on November 21st, 2009

• Although technically planets were created by suns,(splitting hairs I know) your description is generally rather good.
  And you would be correct in your reasoning that if the mass/energy always existed then a god/creator may also have existed. The thing to remember here though is that when faced with a physical existance/reality that the always existing mass/energy would not require a god/creator, and a always existing mass/energy is far more rational/logical than an always existing god/creator.

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  by Retrovampire on November 22nd, 2009

• I`m not sure if I`m being very clear here, I`m sorry.
  To keep it simple would be to say:
  A steady state mass/energy is a physically simplistic phenomena, where as a steady state god/creator is an unjustifiably overly complicated phenomena.

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  by Retrovampire on November 22nd, 2009

• Or another way:
  One requires physics.
  The other requires magic.

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  by Retrovampire on November 22nd, 2009

• I've had this conversation before, and I do realize that, scientifically speaking, God is an improbability, but he is undeniably a possibility.
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  God would not require "magic" per se. There's plenty we don't know yet, we haven't even explored the oceans anywhere near fully. I understand the likelihood is low, but I think we still don't know enough to say exactly how low.

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  by POP Fan on November 23rd, 2009

• Also, on the subject of not knowing a lot, it is possible that people have telekenetic powers but that part of the brain is hidden, locked or underdeveloped.

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  by Brawl on November 23rd, 2009

• Fair does, magic is possibly the wrong word and may well be linked more with a Christian god and not gods in general.
  And yes the possibility is still there, but there are so many other possibilities likely before considering gods, that to be honest gods are not really on the scale.
  But you are most certainly right, we know very little really...but it would be foolish to start jumping to extremes when much more rational answers would be the logical starting point in exploring our own existence.

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  by Retrovampire on November 24th, 2009

• Rule of thumb: When faced with options as to answering a question more often than not the most mundane answer is the correct one. And although the correct answer may well be satisfying scientifically its rarely satisfying emotionally.

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  by Retrovampire on November 24th, 2009

• Can we end this infinite argument or continue it elsewhere? Cos' this is spamming me.

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  by Brawl on November 24th, 2009

• Why would this conversation be spamming you? If you mean you constantly get emails informing you of new comments, then simply change your Answerbag settings.

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  by Retrovampire on November 24th, 2009

• I'm glad we reached a conclusion we can agree on :)

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  by POP Fan on November 24th, 2009

• I mean on my "activities" page.

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  by Brawl on November 24th, 2009

• good point yup. if god didnt exist, how could anything else exist?

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  by SeannaSaurus Rex on November 28th, 2009

• Seanna...I think maybe you need to read the other comments??

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  by Retrovampire on November 28th, 2009

• haha i didnt think there were THIS many comments!! Did I just ruin a "conference" of sorts?

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  by SeannaSaurus Rex on November 28th, 2009

• Your presence I’m sure would ruin nothing....
  I believe things here was coming to an end!

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  by Retrovampire on November 28th, 2009

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• what religion are you?

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  by Seraphim Shinobi on October 21st, 2007

• I am Hindu.

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  by Da Azian Boi on October 21st, 2007

• cool, i'm Hindu Punjabi

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  by Seraphim Shinobi on October 21st, 2007

• Thats cool. Do you speak Punjabi?

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  by Da Azian Boi on October 21st, 2007

• yes but not very well lol

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  by Seraphim Shinobi on October 21st, 2007

• Lol, the same with me except its with Hindi.

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  by Da Azian Boi on October 21st, 2007

• i can understand hindi but i cant speak it lol

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  by Seraphim Shinobi on October 21st, 2007

• Lol, me too. But I can't understand a word of Punjabi.

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  by Da Azian Boi on October 21st, 2007

• they're not that different, Punjabi just sounds ruder lol

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  by Seraphim Shinobi on October 21st, 2007

• Lol, thats what I heard also.

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  by Da Azian Boi on October 21st, 2007

• You poor soul. So trusting and lost...

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  by Mephistopheles on September 12th, 2008

• huh?

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  by Seraphim Shinobi on September 12th, 2008

• You're going to downrate me for my religious view...?

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  by Da Azian Boi on September 12th, 2008

• No, just for your poor judgment and lack of common sense

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  by Mephistopheles on September 13th, 2008

• No, you downrated him because you have a lack of tolerance to a difference of opinion.

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  by Seraphim Shinobi on September 14th, 2008

• Exactly, no one has to believe the same way you do.

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  by Da Azian Boi on September 14th, 2008

• so sad you guys dont have brain

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  by powermojo on February 1st, 2009

• Probably, u haven't got a brain u. U have no idea. God isn't just one who can be found just where ever u look. He will never show himself to u unless u pray or worship him. And btw, what makes u think that there is no God? Btw, I can actually prove it to u, and i can help u by showing u the correct way to understand God.

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  by Arpit Roy on March 8th, 2009

• you cant prove God. thats not the point!

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  by Seraphim Shinobi on March 8th, 2009

• I have prayed and worshipped him at a time when I was still under the impression I could believe authority. He never showed himself to me. When I asked for a sign, I would read an event as a sign (say like lightning hitting a tree close to my house letting me know I was being bad).
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  To the folks that say "prove God doesn't exist," prove Satan isn't the one that wrote the Bible. And don't base it on what you think of Satan, but attribute those attributes to who you refer to as God.

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  by Stevie on September 21st, 2009

• Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do thoses thingswhich are not proper.29 Being filled with all unrighteousness,fornication,wickedness, greediness,maliciousness,full of envy,murder,debate,malignity,whisperers,30 backbitters,HATERS OF GOD,despitefull,proud,inventors of evil things,disobedientto parents,31 Without understanding, covenant breakers,without natural affection, implacable, un-merciful:Who knowing the Judgement of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same but have pleasurein them that do them.

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  by itisihere on October 17th, 2009

• Psalms 14:1 The fool has said in his heart there is no God.They are corrupt,they have done abominable works,there is none that doith good.2The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand,and seek God.3.They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy;there is none that doith good,no,not one.4.Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord. Gods word NOT mine...

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  by itisihere on October 17th, 2009

• no offense intended but they aren't God's words, no scripture on this earth has God's words in it. Human words inspired by God.

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  by Seraphim Shinobi on October 18th, 2009

• If a boss tells a secretary to write a letter for him, it is his words not the secretaries in the letter!

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  by itisihere on October 18th, 2009

• not really, unless he dictates to her. which could have happened, i see your point!

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  by Seraphim Shinobi on October 20th, 2009

• itisihere, using your analogy, if all you have is the letter from the secretary, then can you prove it is the words of the boss? If not, then why should I believe that the secretary did have the boss' intentions in mind and not her own?

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  by Stevie on October 20th, 2009

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• Good answer! :P

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  by Kris Kringle on July 9th, 2008

• ^_^

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  by GiraffeyedDonor-ish on July 10th, 2008

• So you are saying you are a sheep.

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  by Retrovampire on August 14th, 2008

• that's right! i am sheep who will be lost without my Shepherd.

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  by Anonymous on August 29th, 2008

• Blindly following and blindly obeying. Its like the dark ages all over again.

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  by Retrovampire on August 30th, 2008

• Hey, with friends like that, who needs enemies? And, if he's your sheperd, does that mean you're a sheep or a goat?

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  by Mephistopheles on September 12th, 2008

• Good point.

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  by Don Gorgeous George on October 29th, 2008

• Baaaaa baaaaa baaaaaa

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  by Mephistopheles on October 29th, 2008

• nogod4me do I really need to tell you what you are?

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  by MIA on October 29th, 2008

• It would mean nothing coming from someone who doesn't know who they truly are.

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  by Don Gorgeous George on October 29th, 2008

• Mr. JDMacaB, are you referring to me or nogod?

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  by MIA on October 29th, 2008

• Actually, I take those comments back, the parts that had to do with you because now that I look back, you haven't given me any reason to diss you, but I mean everything else I said. I assumed that you are a part of the problem because it seemed like it to me. Maybe you are and if that is the case, I don't take back anything that I said.

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  by Don Gorgeous George on October 29th, 2008

• Mr. JD - are you talking to me again or to that cold beer sitting next to you? :D

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  by Mephistopheles on October 29th, 2008

• I'm talking to the beer!

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  by Don Gorgeous George on October 29th, 2008

• What happened was I left a comment in the answer box for Misstarrie on accident. The comment you were asking about was a follow up to the one that didn't make it up here.

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  by Don Gorgeous George on October 29th, 2008

• GUYS DO you really think I give a damn about points!!!

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  by MIA on October 29th, 2008

• Are you sure your comment is in the right place?

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  by Don Gorgeous George on October 29th, 2008

• Mr. JD - take it easy and ignore the mob with the pitch forks. I think you're doing great, buddy, keep up the good work & don't sweat the small stuff. Cheers!

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  by Mephistopheles on October 30th, 2008

• Thanks!

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  by Don Gorgeous George on October 30th, 2008

• Don't let these idiots rattle you in any way, shape or form. You've come a long way for that! Bottoms up! :D

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  by Mephistopheles on October 30th, 2008

• God = miracles!

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  by judaspriest on November 30th, 2008

• You know what's interesting about miracles, that they don't happen to Atheists. They usually only seem to happen to people who are drunk, on drugs, or mentally defective. Why do you suppose that is, judaspriest?

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  by Rinky Dinky Do on November 30th, 2008

• All of the miracles I've experienced were while I was on heaps of drugs, accept for this one time that a container of pot magically appeared on top on my blanket in the morning. :-)

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  by Don Gorgeous George on November 30th, 2008

• Ha ha...see, you're a testament to miracles, Mr. JD!

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  by Rinky Dinky Do on November 30th, 2008

• god is mysterious

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  by judaspriest on November 30th, 2008

• My underpants are mysterious....

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  by Retrovampire on November 30th, 2008

• All of you people who believe in God and call him your friend, why don't you make friends with someone who is real? There are over 6 billion who you can choose from.

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  by Don Gorgeous George on November 30th, 2008

• Yeah but if they make friends with those 6 billion, they won't have to take meds for it...he he...

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  by Rinky Dinky Do on December 1st, 2008

• Back to the sheep thing, what happens to sheep? They get milked, killed, eaten and fur used for some medieval clothing line...no thanks, I don't want to be a sheep...

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  by Romiex69x on January 16th, 2009

• You forgot that in some part of West Virginia and the Middle East, sheep are also used for undescribable sex acts

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  by Rinky Dinky Do on January 17th, 2009

• Rinky, where can I download those videos?.... ;)

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  by Romiex69x on January 18th, 2009

• The videos of men having sex with their barn animals? Uh, I dunno, but I'd start with the websites to the Vatican, the 900 Club and maybe even Fred Phelps

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  by Rinky Dinky Do on January 19th, 2009

• Amen Lord Jesus.+5,as for you God haters I pray God opens your eyes.

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  by Jesus is God on June 5th, 2009

• We're not God haters, we're nonsense/fairytales though of as history books haters..."God" character might fit in there somewhere though...

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  by Romiex69x on June 6th, 2009

• Well according to Gods word,He says the lost sinner is at emnity with God,which means you hate Him.So yes you hate Him.Jesus said if your not for me your against me.

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  by Jesus is God on June 6th, 2009

• God has never spoken to you so how can you claim to have his word?

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  by Don Gorgeous George on June 6th, 2009

• Good answer Giraffeyed +6
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  Those that are against Christ shall not have an eternal life In heaven.Matthew 25:46 These people will go away Into eternal punishment,but the righteous Into an eternal life.All of you
  non-believers have posted nothing but "Ignorant" and childish comments.Very religious Christians and "pastors" talk to God,I am not that religious but I as a Christian feel the Holy spirit of Christ that guides me Into what direction to go,a positive direction and not to a road of destruction.

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  by Carl_07 on June 7th, 2009

• You believe in fantasy. Anyone who talks to God is really just talking to a creation of their mind based on what they've read in the bible and imagine God to be. God doesn't exist outside of the imaginations of those who believe he exists. His biblical character is one of a hypocrite and not to be trusted. Those who claim to have a relationship with God are lost in a world of fantasy, one that does not serve them well.

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  by Don Gorgeous George on June 7th, 2009

• You would know fantasy now wouldn't you George, the whole Dre thing proved that.

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  by MIA on June 7th, 2009

• The whole Dre thing is a perfect example of what it means to believe in God.

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  by Don Gorgeous George on June 7th, 2009

• Look what I found here George,your website...
  http://www.angelfire.com/empire/serpentis666/HOME.html
  .
  Ezekiel 28:15 God had created Satan a perfect spirit being, but he also gave him free moral agency,that Is the ability to choose to follow good or evil.His rebellion against God sealed and hardened his evil nature and now he opposes all that Is good,right and Godly.
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  You are all confused George,If you believe In Satan then you believe In God.It sounds like you just can't put your pieces to your puzzle..LOL
  ROFLMAO

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  by Carl_07 on June 7th, 2009

• What you have missed from glancing at my website is the fact that God and his son are fictional characters created by abusers of occult knowledge. These same people wrote the bible. You lay down scriptures as if they mean something. Satan is our creator. Your "God" is fictional, a work of the occult and so is your bible. The thing that disturbs me is that people like you will justify ANYthing as long as your false God is said to have done it. "If God murders a child, it's okay because he is perfect. If God rapes a baby, it's okay because God's will is perfect. If God says let's go to war and break a commandment, it's okay because God is perfect." Your "God" is a hypocrite. The bible is full of hypocrisy. You can say anything you want regarding what the bible says is right, and I can find scripture that will say that you are wrong. That is the way the bible works. There is no right or wrong. You believe in a God who never was.

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  by Don Gorgeous George on June 7th, 2009

• Satan Is "your" creator for leaving you the "twisted" person that you are.God gives us a brain so we can decide on what we want to do with our lives.You have a sick mentality and your only playing with fire.God does not murder anyone,wicked men with wicked minds do the rape and murdering.
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  My Holy bible always proves It all...
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C33Oh_mCPXw
  My lord Jesus Christ Is my savior to an eternal life In heaven.
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  Please get some help George,life Is beautiful for you to let someone else brain wash you In a wicked way of thinking.

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  by Carl_07 on June 7th, 2009

• Lol, how ironic. You are the one who has been brainwashed. It's so obvious to me. When you surround yourself by like minded fools, it's easy to believe you are right. You know what's sad? Even if a heaven existed, there would be no sex, not food, no drunkenness, no lust, no pride, no ego, no personal preferences and no desire. If such a place did exist, I would be truly miserable there, not being allowed to do the things that makes my life worth living. You say that God doesn't kill children? Well maybe you are right, instead he asks his followers to do that.http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2015:2-3&version=50

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  by Don Gorgeous George on June 7th, 2009

• Your will find all your answers here and especially on Genesis 6:4...
  .http://www.christianityboard.com/topic/6035-parable-of-the-tares/page__st__50
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  You sound more like you want to party and you are more concerned about getting drunk..LOL
  ROFLMAO

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  by Carl_07 on June 7th, 2009

• Did I ask any questions? Why are you giving me "answers"?

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  by Don Gorgeous George on June 7th, 2009

• No you did not ask any questions Gorgeous George..LOL
  You say that God doesn't kill children? I just felt like I just had to give an answer.
  I'm not laughing at you,I was Laughing Out Loud at the ones that don't believe In God.It's funny how they see a question about God and they are the first ones to rush-In..LOL
  They believe In God,they just hate him.
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  I would say that If they don't believe In God,then just move on to the next questions about Santa Claus,Snow White and the 7 dwarfs,then they can rush-In and "me" and "you" will tag along with the bunch and comment..I don't believe In Santa Claus,he doesn't exist..LOL
  ROFLMAO

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  by Carl_07 on June 7th, 2009

• You guys are all nuts, there is no god, there is no satan, there is no miracles, there is evolution, there is coincidence, there is logic and common sense. Do you really think our tiny planet in this tiny amount of space time really matters? There is trillions upon trillions of solar systems and planets out there, we really do not matter all that much.

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  by Romiex69x on June 8th, 2009

• Rollerz:How can I hate something that does not exist?
  No one (of a credible age) believes in Santa, snow white etc...but some of a credible age do believe in magic men in the sky (god or gods).
  If someone on here seriously argued the existence of Santa, then I would be there and arguing back, but that doesn’t mean I hate Santa, again how can I hate a made up character.

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  by Retrovampire on June 8th, 2009

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• Thanks for the points!

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  by turbowray on January 27th, 2007

• 'God of Bible' approves of
  
  Inter-brother hate: Genesis-4:8-9
  Protection of murderer: Genesis-4:14-15
  Inter-brother hate & sanction of hereditary slavery: Genesis-9:18-27
  Hate of other-god-believers: Deuteronomy-13:1-18, Leviticus-20:1-5
  Stone disobedient son to death: Deuteronomy-21:18-21, Leviticus-20:9
  Kill man, woman, child, livestock-Siege of Jericho-Joshua-6:21, 26
  Divine plunder: Joshua-6:19,24
  Divine plunder by espionage & with assistance of prostitute[s]: Joshua-2:1, 6:25
  Divine terror: Song of Moses-Deuteronomy-32:23-27.
  Preference to non-vegetarian over vegetarian (offerings), herders over farmers: Genesis-4:2-5
  Preference to ‘slaughter of first-born’ over fruit of soil from toil: Genesis-4:3-7.
  
  And this is just the beginning!
  SHAME!

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  by ScienceSwamy on August 3rd, 2009

• You can't believe everything you read. The Bible was written by man, and men make mistakes...

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  by POP Fan on November 20th, 2009

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• I believe someone had to start this mess it's too complex to have happened by chance. I also thing God is one thing and Religion is another, religions have way to many peoples heads screwed up. If you want to come by and give me your side ok but don't tell me I wrong if I don't think the way you do.

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  by Dave2222 on October 12th, 2008

• I think the way you do Dave

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  by pawzisme on June 2nd, 2009

• Yes I do believe in God

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  by Anonymous on August 1st, 2011

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• If god is love, then why not eliminate the extra word from our vocabulary and say either that "I believe in love" or "Honey, I god you."?

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  by 23Skidoo on June 7th, 2008

• That's kind of a pointless question. Focusing on semantics only sidetracks you from real issues.

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  by Jodie44 on June 7th, 2008

• I'm simply trying to understand.
  
  If god = love does love = god?

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  by 23Skidoo on June 7th, 2008

• You can't say that god is an "awesome" being for two reasons.
  1) You have never met god.
  2) You can't prove god is real.

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  by mikedb05 on June 9th, 2008

• I can say anything I want to as long as my words don't violate Answerbag's Terms of Use. If I believe that God is an awesome Being, then I have a right to say so. I'm uninterested in arguing the point with you, anyway.

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  by Jodie44 on June 9th, 2008

• Amen to that....Jodie when we see other believer's living a Godly life. Like caring of others & willing to do what ever is needed to help someone. We see HIM then working through HIS children don't we......You take care, and always keep that faith. And may God Bless you Jodie44 my FRIEND.....Plus 6.........................M.C.S.

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  by - M.C.S. - Dave on June 10th, 2008

• Thanks, M.C.S:)

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  by Jodie44 on June 10th, 2008

• Anytime my FRIEND.

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  by - M.C.S. - Dave on July 12th, 2008

• +6 postitroll

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  by Stillme FBB on September 15th, 2008

• Yeah, I noticed earlier that everyone who answered "yes" got -3d. I went through and did a little positrolling.

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  by Jodie44 on September 15th, 2008

• Get back to work...LOL
  http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/2991762
  
  
  Thanks Jodie my FRIEND.

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  by - M.C.S. - Dave on September 16th, 2008

• He ain;t a being. He is a SUPER Being. =P

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  by Arpit Roy on March 8th, 2009

• good on ya Jodie :)

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  by pawzisme on June 2nd, 2009

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• true

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  by edpesosss134 on January 26th, 2007

• and very generic.......

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  by Mirage V2.0 AWOL on January 26th, 2007

• Sort of like the "intelligent design" theory?

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  by blessings on January 27th, 2007

• No, I think God could manage with evolution if he manages his time properly.

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  by Mirage V2.0 AWOL on January 27th, 2007

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• Yes, that is what counts.

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  by Novacaine on January 4th, 2007

• Thumbs up!

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  by Mephistopheles on September 13th, 2008

• Great answer. +3

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  by hedge-rider on January 31st, 2009

• Thank you for your excellent answer. It is so refreshing to read something like this. :-)

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  by ClintonvilleTom has closed up shop. on April 27th, 2011

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• :-)

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  by Highlander is semi-retired from AB on November 4th, 2007

• yah :)

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  by Anonymous on August 29th, 2008

• Ah-ha!

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  by SaulofNazareth on May 29th, 2009

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• Positroll. +6

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  by Anonymous on September 15th, 2008

• postitroll+6

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  by Stillme FBB on September 15th, 2008

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• tartare sauce with mine, please, and some mayo for the chips

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  by Schroeder on December 19th, 2008

• It's all good! :)

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  by xhepera on December 19th, 2008

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• I don't rate you religious folks down for being religious. So quit being petty.

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  by debsmooth on January 28th, 2007

• believing in God doesn't make someone religious.

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  by yup. on January 28th, 2007

• Indeed. And believing in god never stopped anyone from behaving badly either.

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  by debsmooth on January 28th, 2007

• I rekkun that lotsa people are too scared to admit they really don't believe in all this hocus pocus godgobbing garbage.Christian bible bashers have hijacked ya brain.
  Vi Va La EVOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  by WITTY 1 on May 25th, 2007

• Yippie! Good for you debsmooth!

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  by Mephistopheles on September 13th, 2008

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• I like your 'yes' Anonymous.+6.

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  by Suby the Coat on December 23rd, 2008

• hahaha

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  by Star Girl One of THE KEWL KIDZ on December 23rd, 2008

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• Fine percepective.+6.

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  by Suby the Coat on December 23rd, 2008

• Chief is on target

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  by Dave2222 on December 23rd, 2008

• So does that mean if a pedophile believes that sex with a child does not have to be hidden or excused then it isn't a sin? Sorry, I have to ask these things.

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  by Ananamiss on December 31st, 2008

• I think your reading too much into it. The point here is it is not my job to point out other peoples sins. I am not the judge of their life. I can see what they do is wrong because what they do is harmful to another. But it is not my place to call this person a sinner. maybe between them and God it isn't a sin and maybe the person will not be judged by God. I can not make that call. I can however say it is a crime because we as humans share this world and this person will go to prison if caught. Because we are judged by the law while we are here. I can tell you that between me and God it would be a sin if I did such an act because I know in my heart God would not find my actions pleasing.

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  by Account Closed on December 31st, 2008

• So here is the deal. although this person may not see it is a sin he has to know it is against the law we all live by and will be punished no matter what he says he believes.

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  by Account Closed on December 31st, 2008

• The laws framed are based on moral codes.
  Religious recommendations are also baseed on moral codes.
  By following the laws one can stay within the codes of the religion and vice versa.
  Happy New Year to all.

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  by Suby the Coat on December 31st, 2008

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• blasphemer!

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  by xhepera on December 19th, 2008

• :) <---- for the humor impaired ;)

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  by xhepera on December 19th, 2008

• LOL!!

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  by katydid15 on December 19th, 2008

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• :)

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  by Cognition aka Cog on April 29th, 2008

• Hi Cognition, how are you?

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  by Jodie44 on April 29th, 2008

• Winding down, busy day, how about you?

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  by Cognition aka Cog on April 29th, 2008

• P.S. Call me "Cog" anytime...

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  by Cognition aka Cog on April 29th, 2008

• Good! Thanks, Cog;)

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  by Jodie44 on April 29th, 2008

• Have a nice evening, I will probably check out some of your activity, you always have a smörgåsbord of Q and A.

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  by Cognition aka Cog on April 29th, 2008

• You have a nice evening too!! I hope I'll see you

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  by Jodie44 on April 29th, 2008

• D/Red +6

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  by Jen-Jen on April 30th, 2008

• Thank you, Jen-Jen:) Honestly, what would I do without you?

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  by Jodie44 on April 30th, 2008

• lol.....You have many of friends here, Jodie.

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  by Jen-Jen on April 30th, 2008

• But, Jen-Jen, you're unique. {{{HUGS}}}

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  by Jodie44 on April 30th, 2008

• She sure is, you both are!

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  by Cognition aka Cog on April 30th, 2008

• Postitroll+6
  R.Dog is back!!!!!!

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  by Stillme FBB on September 15th, 2008

• You're kidding me, LOL.

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  by Jodie44 on September 15th, 2008

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• ...:)

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  by Babycakes on September 15th, 2008

• Positroll. +6

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  by Anonymous on September 15th, 2008

• Excellent answer BTW.

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  by Anonymous on September 15th, 2008

• Thank you for both.........:):):)

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  by Stillme FBB on September 15th, 2008

• BB..........((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))

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  by Stillme FBB on September 15th, 2008

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• i love your avatoar and home page:)
  
  im sorry nick left:(
  can i ask where he went?

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  by Star Girl One of THE KEWL KIDZ on December 22nd, 2008

• http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/4951874

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  by Jen-Jen on December 22nd, 2008

• i am so sorry...
  he must of been very important to you. I still dont understand why he left

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  by Star Girl One of THE KEWL KIDZ on December 22nd, 2008

• It couldn't of been an easy decision to make.
  http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1158821

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  by Jen-Jen on December 22nd, 2008

• i hope he comes back for you

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  by Star Girl One of THE KEWL KIDZ on December 22nd, 2008

• So do I.

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  by Jen-Jen on December 22nd, 2008

• +6. Shannnon.

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  by Suby the Coat on December 23rd, 2008

• "Hugs"

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  by Jen-Jen on December 25th, 2008

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• Fine percepective.+6.

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  by Suby the Coat on December 23rd, 2008

• As I grew older, it occurred to me that organized religions should have as a main goal the assisting of people to cope with the stresses of life.
  
  Too many, however, use guilt simply to control its membership.
  
  Once upon a time I read that:
  
  "Organized religion was created by those who lacked the mental capacity to understand natural phenoma".
  
  Rather hard-hitting, that.

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  by a nony mous on December 24th, 2008

• You are right hawk II.

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  by Suby the Coat on December 24th, 2008

• Danke x 2.

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  by a nony mous on December 24th, 2008

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• Positroll. +6

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  by Anonymous on September 15th, 2008

• postitroll+6

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  by Stillme FBB on September 15th, 2008

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• And you never will

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  by Mephistopheles on September 13th, 2008

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• i agree! just believe!

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  by Anonymous on March 21st, 2007

• it's up to you to believe in whatever you want.. as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But your reason to believe in something because "there is nothing better" is weak.

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  by slevin01 on March 21st, 2007

• very true, and when you believe you also have faith, and that comes from the soul. So if you are believing, because you believe then thats the best reason possible! hope that wasn't confusing...

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  by Anonymous on March 21st, 2007

• How about believing in yourself? If you don't believe yourself is not worth believing in, then, by all means, you need religion!

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  by Mephistopheles on September 13th, 2008

• I believe, if AR were to see this, she might say something about Pascal's Wager and the like, but she says it much better than I do, so I'll just let her find it on her own.

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  by hedge-rider on January 31st, 2009

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• Did what I could to put points back for you, Antigone. :(

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  by Ankhorite on January 27th, 2007

• thats good you do that everynite.

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  by DMAC213 on January 27th, 2007

• AR, this is technically called 'delusions of grandeur', but you are in therapy already, and no doubt are aware of that.

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  by blessings on January 27th, 2007

• A delusion of grandeur would be the idea that I am God. Bone up a bit on your psychology, blessings. Communing with Deity is known as "praying".

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  by AntigoneRising on February 5th, 2007

• LOL, Antigone! Isn't it remarkable how some folks are sure that what they do is "praying" and what the rest of us (except for the atheists) do is something other, something less, something dangerous, something delusional? You go, grrl!

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  by Ankhorite on February 5th, 2007

• Yeah, it is funny how one can justify one's own beliefs as true, yet condemn others as crazy for the exact same thing.

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  by AntigoneRising on February 5th, 2007

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• Thank you for your input!

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  by Ben is a bit bored with the Internet on July 1st, 2008

• Good for you! It's great to see a voice of reason in this assylum

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  by Mephistopheles on September 13th, 2008

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• Yeeeeez!

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  by Mephistopheles on September 13th, 2008

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• me either and this is the most believe iam sure of it

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  by iraq on March 22nd, 2009

• iam muslim

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  by iraq on March 22nd, 2009

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• i'm one of those people i have to see it to believe it..

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  by AshleyMarie on March 21st, 2007

• he did. Jesus.("He who has seen me has seen the Father")

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on March 21st, 2007

• did u see him huh?
  

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  by AshleyMarie on March 21st, 2007

• Ashley, you don't see gravity, or the wind. Yet I'm assuming you believe those exist. So, maybe what you mean to say is, "I have to see evidence that's suitable for me to believe that God exists." I seriosuly doubt you only believe in things that you can see.

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  by Castrate on March 23rd, 2007

• thats exactly what i am saying... i worded wrong thanks for clearing that up Castrate

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  by AshleyMarie on March 23rd, 2007

• No problem.

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  by Castrate on March 23rd, 2007

• you know that gravity and the wind exsist becaus of reaction. everything that 'god' has done has been explained my science

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  by Janie on August 21st, 2007

• melanie, have you seen my brother? You have not, but I can tell you that he exists. I am a witness to the fact. I am also a genealogist. I can tell you the names of thousands of my ancestors, going back past the middle ages. I never saw them either, but I know they existed. There is documentary proof.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on August 21st, 2007

• there is also "documanted proof" that hansel and gretal got lost in the woods and a wicked witch with a house made of ginger tried to cook them up and eat them.

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  by Janie on August 23rd, 2007

• Melanie, I rarely say this, but that is a very ignorant comment. I have studied ancient history, and have an honours degree in Indonesian and Malayan Studies. I have dealt with traditional (including oral literature) and I also have theological qualifications. There is a big difference between a fairy tale and a piece of ancient historical literature, into which the Bible fits. If you read any scholarly works at all, you will find that some parts of the Bible are used as text books for ancient history, so accurate are they in historical detail. I doubt you would find that sort of thing happening for Hansel and Gretel.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on August 23rd, 2007

• BTW the word is "documented".

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on August 23rd, 2007

• ever heard of a typo... or evolution for that matter. there is also scientific proof that everything started with the big bang, and bacteria. do you honestly believe that adom and eve had heaps of kids and those kids pro-created? theological qualifications? doesnt that mean theory? and isnt a theory something that isnt actually proven? well, you beleive in whatever 'theory' you want...

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  by Janie on August 24th, 2007

• Ok, I wasn't going to get involved until "you" madam, mentioned that there was "proof" for the Big Bang. I can't believe the ignorance that just escaped your mouth. Let me ask you something... Do "you" honestly believe that there was nothing, and then there was a Big Bang? So, one day when it was like all other days (days wouldn't actually exist because there was NOTHING) the Big bang happened. And after millions, nay, billions of years, things started to form. And before you know it, there was a planet able to sustain life.

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  by Castrate on August 24th, 2007

• And soon, life formed, and things began to evolve. And before you know it, every living thing you see here today, came from some sort of primordial soup (I just used that theory as an example, because many people believe that way)! Yeah, so believable! The Big Bang is one of the most delusional theories to ever be created. Take my advice madam, and stick to worm hole theories. Because The Big Bang is a dying theory. I am not interested in debated the evolutionary theory right now. But I am however ready to blow a hole into your little Big Bang theory any time you're ready!

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  by Castrate on August 24th, 2007

• Before I continue, here are a few links that just out right rips holes into your silly theory. http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/132
  http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4643
  http://www.jefflindsay.com/BigBang.shtml
  Now, I have a feeling that you're not going to bother clicking my links, because you are afraid that they will destroy your precious theory. But I wanted to post the anyway. Now, I will send you a link discrediting "Red Shifts" which you probably think "proves" the Big Bang. http://www.creationontheweb.com/images/pdfs/tj/j20_1/j20_1_116-122.pdf

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  by Castrate on August 24th, 2007

• So, my main point is, that if there was ever "nothing", then there would always be nothing, for nothing is truly the absence of "everything"! Therefor, the Big Bang wouldn't have the right components to react. Your only option then, is that the Universe always existed, and that there was no starting point in time, rather the Universe always existed.

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  by Castrate on August 24th, 2007

• Other than the obvious ridiculousness of it, I shall mention a few problems that we would see. 1.) A black holes life span has been calculated to be about 12,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years (or 1.2x10^67 years for short). 2.) Star's life spans are estimated to be much shorter, in the billions (our sun is calculated to have a life span of 10 billion years, being an average size star).

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  by Castrate on August 24th, 2007

• So, knowing that, and assuming that our universe always existed, why do we not see more black holes than stars? Black holes live much longer, and would be destroying every star that comes into it's path (not to mention any planets in it's path). So, the idea of an always existing universe is very silly. Which brings us back to the fact that we have to have a beginning. Where did the first specs of matter come from? The Big Bang is unable to explain this, thus making it a stupid theory at best. Even if there is some strange way to justify the Big Bang, I think I have at least shown how it is not a "proven" theory. I rest my case.

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  by Castrate on August 24th, 2007

• well, i dont know about the big bang, but i do know evolution. and i did click on those sights, but as you well know, there is also thousands of sights promoting the big bang, and sights promoting adam and eve and even sights promoting dogs licking balls, my point is, i dont need to read every thing there is on pro or anti big bang, because it would be endless, there has been countless hours of research into creating and splitting atoms and i CHOOSE to beleive that theory over the one where we are all incest.

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  by Janie on August 24th, 2007

• not to mention the fact that my 'scientific proof' was no better or worse than the 'proof' that jesus walk on water or turned water into wine, or came back to life after being killed. both theorys have major holes, and if you CHOOSE to beleive in all that other stuff, why dont you just walts over to australia and proof it?

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  by Janie on August 24th, 2007

• adom? adam is the correct spelling. walts? try waltz. theorys...theories.
  darling, as with spelling, you have a lot to learn. But I am glad of one thing. You do admit to evolution being a theory only. A theory with some proof, but that is largely a matter of faith (faith that someday the final proofs will arrive). That is what I have, too. Faith, based on some proof (eye witness accounts, historical and scientific backing for Biblical teaching).

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on August 24th, 2007

• I think the word you're looking for singwell, is "evidence".

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  by Castrate on August 24th, 2007

• evidence is a wonderful word. Precise and exact. thanks for that, Castrate.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on August 24th, 2007

• No problem.

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  by Castrate on August 24th, 2007

• well this conversation has certainly been enlightening.

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  by Janie on August 24th, 2007

• hopefully so, Melanie.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on August 25th, 2007

• all i was trying to say, is that i beleive that there is no proof, i am enlightened by the fact that every religiuose person i know cant just let that be.

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  by Janie on August 25th, 2007

• god DID come to earth...haven't u heard of the bible?!

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  by lilgal1994 on September 9th, 2007

• do you believe everything you read?

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  by Janie on September 9th, 2007

• no but more than billion people believe in god...why shouldnt u?

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  by lilgal1994 on September 10th, 2007

• lilgal, you shouldn't believe something just because it's what the mass population believes. If most people were jumping off of a bridge, would you jump too? I should hope not. Now, that also doesn't mean that it's wrong, just because most people believe it. You just have to decide for yourself, not based on what other people believe. If it seems more likely to you that there is a God out there, that created the universe, then that is fine. If you believe that it all started with the Big Bang, and evolved from there, then that too is fine. Neither is a known fact, so therefore you must leave it up to the individual to decide.

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  by Castrate on September 10th, 2007

• i think i'll form my own oppinions, not just what 'more than a billion people' beleive, thank you...

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  by Janie on September 10th, 2007

• wteva u...u.. ignorant non beleevr!!

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  by lilgal1994 on October 22nd, 2007

• lilgal, that is not on! Do not speak that way. We have a duty to Christ not to abuse.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on October 22nd, 2007

• thank you singwell,
  now, i am not ignorant, and i would also just like to clarify that i was drinking when most of that conversation went on. i havent changed my beliefes (but i think it will explain some of the spelling)
  i accept the fact that you beleive in god, now you accept the fact that i dont. sound fair?

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  by Janie on October 24th, 2007

• ok first of all..yep u are ignorant
  and singwell soryy wont say tha again:D
  back to janie...i bet ur js using drinkin as an excuse to get outta dis argument cuz u no ur gonna lose..and lyk drinkin what..WATER?!
  lol

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  by lilgal1994 on November 5th, 2007

• i wasnt using drinking as an excuse to get out of 'dis' argument, i was merely stating that had i been sober i would have used better spelling, although from the looks of your comments that wont be a problem as your english aint that great either.
  Nobody can lose an argument based on beliefs, as there can be no right or wrong, only what you believe.

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  by Janie on November 5th, 2007

• and secondly, no, i am not ignorant. just because i am forming my own opinions based on what i have seen personaly, not basing them on what other people have seen does not make me ignorant.
  if anything you are self rightious and like 'most' other religious people you are unable to accept the fact that we dont all HAVE to believe in god to be a good person.
  grow up kiddo and realize that not everyone is the same.

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  by Janie on November 5th, 2007

• ok first of all..MY BAD tha im 'all modern'...and i NEVR SAID that u have to believe in god to be a good person.All im saying is that itz not lyk onli 1 person beleevs in god..it waz the whole world tha experienced it or else religion wouldnt have been carried on 4 generations.and majority of the people believe what they experience in their childhood.If u were brot up in such surroundings.do what you want..If u werent..ur A REBEL!!

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  by lilgal1994 on November 10th, 2007

• i'm not a rebel. i know that millions of people believe in god, and i am not saying they shouldnt. i was brought up to make up my own mind, my parents are both catholic, but i decided from a young age that religion just didnt sit well with me, i just believe that there is no god. that doesnt make me a rebel, it just makes me an athiest.

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  by Janie on November 10th, 2007

• ok.Suit ur self.
  
  p.s-twaz nyc arguin wit ya
  lol:P

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  by lilgal1994 on November 17th, 2007

• it was who??

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  by Janie on November 17th, 2007

• IT WAS NICE ARGUING WITH YOU
  GOODD U CANT EVEN UNDERSTAND THAT!!
  O N BTW.IF U DONT BELIEVE IN GOD WHY CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS?

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  by lilgal1994 on November 20th, 2007

• christmas was a celebration before jesus and god, jesus wasnt even born on the 25th of december. study history and you will find that it was a 'holiday' LONG before you 'christ'
  how the hell am i supposed to understand "twaz nyc aruin wit ya" learn to speak english, nobody wants to have to decipher your abreviations in every comment, question and answer.
  p.s the CAPS LOCK key is the one above the shift key, try to take it off next time.

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  by Janie on November 21st, 2007

• AshleyMarie: I'm with you!
  
  lilgal 1994: thanks for the laugh, I needed it just about now!

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  by Mephistopheles on September 13th, 2008

• Man, this is nearly a year old.

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  by Castrate on September 13th, 2008

• According yto the bible...jesus was a formation of god in human form...u know father, son and holy spirit. The bible also says that god will come back some day.we just don't know when

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  by cheekymonkey54 on September 25th, 2010

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• You poor thing.Try being a free thinking individual and investigate the myriad wonders of many billions of years of cosmic evolution.Not the dismal 6,000 years of godgobbing mind control.

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  by WITTY 1 on May 25th, 2007

• WITTY1: The one who is poor is the one who does not believe in the living God. Those who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour are spiritually rich with eternal mansions in heaven. :)

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  by ...trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. on October 26th, 2007

• All I can say to this lastresponse is WOW, do some of your own thinking for a change. Just because a book wrote by man tells you about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit does make it real for everyone. I am not trying to judge you on your beliefs, I for am a Wiccan. So no I dont believe in just one being the ultimate power and savior. I do however believe in the constant evolution of creation by a God and Goddess.

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  by Anonymous on December 30th, 2007

• Anonymous: Whenever you receive the living Christ as your Saviour, believe me, you know that He's real.

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  by ...trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. on January 5th, 2008

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• It's funny how things change. Three years later, and I do not. Sorry to those who thumbed me up.

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  by Phrenia on May 20th, 2010

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• Which would include God, otherwise everything DOESN'T need a "designer and builder".

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  by eternal0void on September 15th, 2008

• God is eternal, therefore he wasn't created. I can prove it scientifically, too.

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  by Anonymous on January 29th, 2011

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• One lousy book of fiction.That's it.And look at the trouble the damn thing causes!!!!!!!!!!

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  by WITTY 1 on May 25th, 2007

• Well that's your opinion.

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  by Skip_2_My_Lou on May 25th, 2007

• WITTY1: You have no proof for your claim that the Bible is fiction. You believe the Bible to be fiction by your faith in there being no God.

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  by ...trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. on October 26th, 2007

• If the Bible has the answers, man, I'd hate to see the questions!
  
  WITTY 1, I'm with ya! It doesn't even qualify as sci-fi

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  by Mephistopheles on September 13th, 2008

• Well, there's a few things in the Bible which are fiction. The Jesus story being one of them, as its clearly an amalgamation of lots of different stories, some predating the 1 C.E. date by thousands of years and coming out of different religions. Heck, even Bible scholars can't establish an ancestral line of David for Jesus without throwing out the primary rule of ancestry: patrilineal descent.
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  There's no need to be an atheist to see that a lot of the Bible is fictional.

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  by eternal0void on September 15th, 2008

• Just read Mat 24. Then you'll see that is real.

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  by Skip_2_My_Lou on January 28th, 2009

• Matthew 24 records events that occurred centuries *after* some of the stories attributed to Jesus.
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  For example, Asclepius, the Greek God-Man of Healing, wandered around Greece and Rome healing people for free. In one instance a woman with a hemorrhagic condition was healed instantly when she reached out and touched the hem of Asclepius' cloak. The Gods decided to allow him into Olympus for all his good work, and Ascended him bodily into the heavens. This was all written down by the Greeks and the Romans centuries before the Gospel Writers invented a Jesus character and gave him Asclepius' attributes, as well as many other attributes of other famous people of the region.
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  By the time the first Gospel was written down in 70 C.E., the fictitious Jesus' claims in the Gospels were commonplace. Everyone at the head of a Messianic cult said they were the "Christ" (lit. in Greek "Anointed One"). The claims in Matthew 24 were plagiarized from existing regional Messianic Cults.

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  by eternal0void on February 2nd, 2009

• Christians record in their history that "Christmas" occurring in December (and not during lambing season in April, the period in which "shepherds watched their flocks by night") was the result of Christians co-opting "Saturnalia", the festival of Mithras. What they tend to conveniently forget to mention was that the cult of Mithras was a Messianic Cult as well (older than Christianity), the story of a God who gives his life every year so that the Earth will live, and who is reborn in the Spring.
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  Most of the "Christmas" customs were borrowed unchanged from the Romans, who brought in evergreen trees decked with lights and had big parties on Solstice Night (around Dec. 21). The Nativity Scene was borrowed from the Egyptians, whose "Holy Of Holies" has had the original "son of God born of a virgin (who remained a virgin despite being impregnated by the Head Male God) and laid in a manger while attended by wise men" story drawn on their wall for 5,000+ years.

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  by eternal0void on February 2nd, 2009

• Paul of Tarsus clearly didn't know about any physical Messiah, since he didn't know any of the Gospel stories. For example, he had to reach all the way back to Isaiah to find an example of a man rising from the dead, when--if the Gospels were true--all he had to do was mention Lazarus, or the dozens of dead people rising bodily from their graves (Matthew 27:52-53) who, as the Gospel of Matthew claims, "went into the holy city and appeared to many people."
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  You'd think someone would have bothered to mention to Paul of Tarsus "Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, and dozens of people were raised from the dead when Jesus died." But apparently no one (not even *Jesus*) bothered to tell the Founder Of Christianity that Jesus had raised people from the dead.
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  The fact is that Jesus is a fictional character, made up so that the Christians could claim to have had a physical Messiah who had actually been on Earth.

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  by eternal0void on February 2nd, 2009

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• Ya got me! I just noticed the C.

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  by kakskee on December 19th, 2008

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• they changed this around. i do believe in God

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  by shady on December 8th, 2009

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• LOL!!!!

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  by Spicy Hot on July 8th, 2009

• Can you believe these two things were considered dupes!!!!

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  by Over and Out on July 9th, 2009

• mmm battered with chips

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  by Ailsa on July 9th, 2009

• Ooo. Now that sounds good.

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  by Over and Out on July 9th, 2009

• Okay now I am hungry.

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  by Spicy Hot on July 9th, 2009

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• -shrug- Apparently someone hasn't read their Bible lately.

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  by Daneca on February 25th, 2008

• Or perhaps they have and that's the reason why they're speaking with reason & common sense

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  by Mephistopheles on September 13th, 2008

• Yes the angry Abrahamic murderer God.

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  by Don Gorgeous George on October 2nd, 2008

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• Shame on you, your going to hell! *sarcastic joke*

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  by Seraphim Shinobi on October 21st, 2007

• I've heard its a lot of fun down there. See you there.

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  by Hairwatcher on October 21st, 2007

• well, it will never be cold!!!

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  by Seraphim Shinobi on October 21st, 2007

• Hooray!

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  by Mephistopheles on September 13th, 2008

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• Cool!

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  by Mephistopheles on September 13th, 2008

• No, you're a question-dodger. There are two positions, atheist and theist. There is no third position.

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  by eternal0void on September 15th, 2008

• So says you! You are void aren't ya?

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  by Woodii on September 15th, 2008

• Positroll +6
  I totally agree with you, sloth.

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  by Anonymous on September 15th, 2008

• eternal0void, I am clearly not a question dodger. I answered the question perfectly "Do you believe there is a god?" "No".
  I even added to my answer stating that although I do not believe there is a god I do not rule out the slight possibility that I am mistaken.
  It is you who mistaken. There are many other positions than just the two you mention.
  Woodii/Dave.. thanx for the comments :)

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  by slothmister on September 15th, 2008

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• EXACTLY,, thank you~!

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  by AshleyMarie on March 23rd, 2007

• Yay for rational thinking!

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  by KitchenRaider on May 19th, 2007

• Yep! See, you said the magic word: "studied"

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  by Mephistopheles on September 13th, 2008