Topic: Poll: Which religion is the best religion? - page 17. (Read 59012 times)

Seems the poll on this forum isn't too far off from the UK

The exact thing that atheists are doing, in an underhanded way (which is essentially the only way they have) by denying that God exists.

Atheists would like to think that they are the superhuman power in human form, simply by denying that God exists.

Full Definition of militant

1 :   engaged in warfare or combat :   fighting

2 :   aggressively active (as in a cause) :   combative


Yes, really.

So... ... which "superhuman controlling power" / "personal God or gods", are atheists worshiping?

Is it the Flying Spaghetti Monster or the Invisible Pink Unicorn?

It must be Satan... that's always the Christian answer... anyone not worshiping their sky god is obviously worshiping Satan

Atheism is a religion. These are the google definitions of religion:
the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

The only reason religious people are militant is, they don't realize that they are really atheists. If they believed in God, they would be peaceful and loving, like God commands.

In a funny farm!

 

Not really.  I don't live by faith.  I count on my skills and I don't hope things will just happen for me. 

Hope is an indication that you have no control over your life.

I try to control what I can. I don't worry about the things I cannot control.

Your thinking is right. And it is the reason why Jesus taught and trained His disciples to go into the world and tell the Gospel to other people. It is the reason why, in the Acts of the Apostles, when the great persecution of the Church in Jerusalem came about (a few years before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 A.D.) that the Christians were scattered, and told everybody that they met about the Gospel.

People generally believe things that make sense. There are few people who really believe atheism, because atheism is blind faith. Most humble atheists are despairing people who are grasping at straws because of some traumatic happenings in their lives. Then they become settled in this thinking, and build on it. If they would take the time to really step out of their blind faith thinking, they would turn to God one way or another. Many have done this.

Preaching the Gospel and the Bible brings logic to people. It shows people that there is something greater than the foolishness they had been believing in their favorite, pet religion. It brings clarity. If they read the Bible in humility (or listen to it being read) God actually works with them to let them understand.


People are generally not great thinkers. Even scientists (who attempt to be great thinkers) miss the fact that nature shows that God exists, and that their own science proves that God exists. People are not made to be great thinkers. They are made to be great listeners. Listening to the Word of God in the Bible brings them into clarity of the truth.

Yes.


Yes.  All the nuns called be a commie.  Sort of the same as some characters here.
What you don't believe in Christ?  You must be an evil  communist.


Most don't believe in that shit.  My wife used to until she met me.
All people over 65 swear by it, except my mom.


Thanks and you are welcome.  

I totally agree with most of what you said sir, I mean I myself am a christian and christianity has great and wonderful teachings.

I'm just saying that at the base of pretty much all religions, it's the same. They teach to be respectful to others. To love, to share.

Its too easy for us to believe that the religion we belong to is the best among others but I think we also have to understand that, given the different cultures we have, people from other religions would think the same way about theirs.

This keeps us divided as humans. And the God that I know, for me, doesn't limit eternal life and paradise to christians or catholics.

It doesn't matter if you're christian, or muslim or hindu or an atheist, as long as you stick to the basics of your religion, which for me would be love and respect for others regardless of what religion they're affiliated with, the gates of paradise should be wide open for you.

Here is the reason why the best religion is important.

If you had a teenage child of car-driving age, and your child asked you for the keys, what would you do? Wouldn't you base your decision to give him the keys on how good and trustworthy of a person he was?

God gave us a very wonderful, complex life. Try growing an extra finger on your hand. Can't do it. It is too complex. Yet, life is full of pleasures God has given all of us.

Yet we took our life and destroyed it. God made us to last forever. But we disobey Him all the time, and live basically less than 100 years because of our disobedience.

We disrespect God greatly (to put it extremely mildly). So why should God give us eternal life? Why shouldn't God give us the damnation we deserve for disrespecting the Controller of everything? He has the power. Why shouldn't He destroy us all? It is an honor thing.

Some religions offer eternal life. Islam has no reason why God would offer eternal life to us bad people. The Christian religion not only shows the whys and the wherefores, but it also shows how it all works. No other religion has the way to keep one from going to a soul-destruction that is fraught with pain.

Love, peace, and joy in this life are great. They are the things that should exist. But the life after this one is way more important. Find the religion that has the truth of it. It means an eternity of peace and joy and love, as opposed to an eternity of the opposite filled with pain.

This is the best philosophy available to humans right now. Unfortunately even that doesn't cut it. It has a fundamental flaw (and a critical one at that): 'love' cannot be 'taught' or 'willed'. Even if humanity were to achieve a 'peaceful' state, having eradicated violence and war completely, everything would still be exactly the same. It would just be pretty on the outside and that's it.

Decker, you think I did not study it?  Fuck, I studied it plenty.  Probably more than 90% of your congregation.

I grew up with it.  Catechism was pounded into my brain from the age of 6 until about 11.  At 11-12 I could formulate arguments against it that my priest could not refute.  I was routinely thrown out of religion classes in my teenage years.  Then dropped religion all together.  I went along with attending masses and listening to the BS until I was about 18.  Only because of cute girls.  Even now, I go to church for my extended family 'functions'.  But every time I go it is getting more ridiculous...A freak show to collect money.  Many people are serious about it, some even cry in church. I stay awake, show respect by not laughing, eat the cracker and go home.

I think religion is a metal health issue.

Doesn't really matter which religion here is the "best". I think at the core of all these teachings we'd find love and respect for others. We tend to overlook these things for more radical aspects of the religion we belong to. I can imagine the reaction of jesus, or buddha, or mohammed seeing us so divided over the same subject that all of them are trying to teach us. For me, all these religions are teaching us the same lesson with different teachers.

Certainly not yours, which is yourself, of course.   

Spoiler:

None of them are real