<p>My point? Those are not peaceful things to have in a peaceful religion...as I said the list goes on and on and on but I didn't feel like going through the Koran to find more right now. If you want me to I will.</p>
<p>It's a bit laughable that you call them out of context. Those aren't even close to the most vicious parts of the Koran, and already that is being brought up. I understand that when the Koran was written, Muslims were at war and all of that. However, this is supposed to be the word of god, a book that lasts forever...shouldn't "warring" things have been taken out? If not, why? If yes, then why aren't they? I mean, this is a religion of peace somehow right?</p>
<p>Look through the Kor'an and give me every Ayat that tells people to be violent and i will explain each one for you and how they are meant to Mulsims. And warring things shouldn't have been taken out. Allah tells Muslims everything there is to know about religion from whether you are allowed to wear your pants below your ankles to War. War is a major part of this world, i mean how long has it been since there wasn't any wars in the world? Yea, exactly, Allah sent down "Warring"things to tell us what to do in certain situations. Do you understand what I am saying? I am typing really fast because i have to go somewhere but i will be back later on so say something if you need to..</p>
<p>peace
And i don't want this to get all brutal and stuff, let's just have an intellectual chat about each of our information and sorry i f i sound rude it's because i'm thinking of too many things at the same time.</p>
<p>If matter can never be created nor destroyed, How could this universe have gotten to be in the first place? How did the matter that was orignally in the Big Bang come to be? Why are the laws of the Unverse the way they are?</p>
<p>The only answer to these questions is God. As a Christian, I believe God created the universe, and knew that with the set laws of the universe he created, and the big bang, that humans would evolve in his own image. Evolution happened, but only as a device of God.</p>
<p>Has anyone noticed that online forums tend to have an abnormally high number of non-religious types? (relative to the population norm). After all, it certainly doesn't seem to be the case that 80% of people here are Christian. It seems that 50-50 Christian/Agnostic or Atheist splits are very common in the forums I visit (I've seen polls on a couple of them, and College Confidential seems hardly any different in this dimension).</p>
<p>And why does this seem to be the case? Maybe it's that traditional types are less likely to seek socialization on online forums (as opposed to offline).</p>
<p>What created God, since matter cannot be created or destroyed? I'm willing to bet that you will say something like God is out of this universe. Prove this to me. Where does any proof of this come from? If he's in another universe, how does he rule this one?</p>
<p>Please come back when your arguments have advanced past 5th grade level.</p>
<p>Inquiline, 80% of the world isn't Chrisian..get your facts straight</p>
<p>Christianity: 33% of the world-2.1 billion people
Islam: 21% of the world-1.3 billion people
Non-Religous: 16% of the world-1.1 billion people
Hinduism: 14% of the world-900 million people</p>
<p>so basically there are a lot of non-religous people in the world.</p>
<p>And science is good to all those people who dislike it. If you think science is a bad thing then become one of those people who don't use technology. You want to get around on a horse? Go ahead. You want to go across the ocean? Forget about it. There would be nothing to cut down trees with unless you use an axe, and without science you wouldn't know how to do anything at all. Basically, no science then no you. You could not live without science. NO science means no gravity and no atmosphere and no sun and no Earth and no nothing. So tell us what you mean when you say science is entirely bad?</p>
<p>Well, yes, but ~80% of the U.S. is Christian, and most people on CC (who go to these boards) come from the U.S. Of course, on the other forum I go to, many of the non-religious are Europeans (still, more of the Americans were non-religious than could be predicted by statistics).</p>
<p>please...why are u people either ignoring me or criticising me?? read my posts and think carefully before u approach LORD OF GREATNESS with an argument or response!!</p>
<p>Hmm.. my viewpoint of religions:
Why label ourselves with religions? Okay well.. I am a suitheist or hindu actually you could say. I just dont get why there HAS to be a religion. What it is is just our actions.. no religions but still yeah i believe in god. anyways i found whatever I said on some sutheism site :]</p>
<p>Also, science can never answer questions such as</p>
<p>Why are the rules of the universe the way they are?
How did the matter in this universe come to be?</p>
<p>Even if Cristianity is not the answer to these questions, the moral values and way of life it preaches greatly benefits society. Atheists preach a pointless life, one in which our sole purpose is to reproduce.</p>
<p>Brown Bomber you've just brought us into another topic. Does one need to be religious in order to be moral? I would be careful of saying that atheist preach a pointless life. Because for them, it's just as pointless for someone to live a life worshiping and believing in something that may not exist. The argument can go both ways. Anyways you don't need to be religious to have any kind of moral values. Moral values come from the person and can simply be taught from childhood. Sure most religions do teach good moral values, but that doesn't mean the moral values come from religion. The idea of moral values can be contributed to a lot of things. It can be looked at as a social result that comes from what a society deems to be moral. If I'm not mistaken, in India it's immoral to eat cows, and in US it's perfectly normal. Likewise, moral values could be looked at as a individual result where the individual determines what's moral based on what he believes. So to him, killing other people could be good, while for others it's bad. And when it comes to religion it can also change. It may preach one thing one day and years later may be saying something completely different. How can you even determine that the moral values of Christianity "greatly benefit society"? And why does it even have to be Christianity? Why can it be Islamic? Hindu? Jewish? etc.</p>
<p>I wish I had an article that I read two years ago about religion and moral values. It basically talked about whether the moral values came from God or if God was used a figure that would allow people to accept these moral values as good. I'll see if I can find it, although it was a while back.</p>
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Also, science can never answer questions such as</p>
<p>Why are the rules of the universe the way they are?
How did the matter in this universe come to be?
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<em>goes back 50000 years in time</em></p>
<p>Science can't possibly explain why the Sun rises every morning. I bet it must a be god in some kind of fiery chariot. Lets all just worship him, or he might get angry and not come back tomorrow and we will all die.</p>
<p><em>comes back to current, modern time</em>
Gee, isn't it great to see how people still think the same?</p>
<p>je veux vous faire savoir que ma foi est indispensable pour vivre bien. Et, je suis sur que il est meme vrai pour tout le monde. Mais, je ne veux pas dire que la religion est fausse ou douteux. cependent, la science est ridicule quand on veut interroger sur les chose spirituel. Lala!!! science ne peut pas expliquer de proportion de le sens physique!!!</p>
<p>Of course science is ridiculous when it tries to prove anything related to spirituality, just as ridiculous as it would be to try and understand why blue bananas fly. They don't exist, and neither do they fly. Even remotely inquiring about them is ridiculous.</p>
<p>I'm not sure it ever did, but hey. It hasn't proven yet that they don't exist, they might as well just be somewhere out there. Our oceans haven't been fully explored, teh blue bananas could, for all we know, be lurking in the depths, planning their assault, ****ed off because we don't worship them. Heck, this is scary, today I'm starting praying to them, to appease their wrath. Better safe then sorry right? So, if tomorrow you'll all be safe and alive, know that it was me who saved you from certain doom. And in gratitude, you should all convert to this religion.
God is dead, long live the blue bananas!</p>