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This is Not of God's Way!

Mystery was solved when they worked out (this was in California by the way) that this poor guy had been swimming or skin diving in a lake and the "elvis or simular" helicopter that is used to bucket up water and take to a bushfire had scooped him up and dumped him over the bushfire.

I dont believe in god or gods, yet, i can argue just as good a reason as to why there is as i can to why there isnt.

The thing to remember is, you dont need to be religious to believe in god, nor do you have to believe in god to be religious.

Also, that if there is a god, (s)he/it isnt doing anything down here, its all up to mankind to make its choice and fight to survive.

What i have worked out for myself thus far is, that if there is a god, (S)He/it wont hold it against me for being myself and not worshiping Her/him/it.

Having faith in something greater is what gives many the will to fight that much harder to achieve thier goals.

If you read the bible it teaches lessons, not that you must believe in god, but life lessons, saying that by believing in "God" and work hard for him/her/it you will succeed and good things will come to you. But its also just as easy to change "God" to "Yourself" and get the same result.

If there is a god, then i think of God like a child with an ant farm, provided a world and is letting us do what we want while God sits back and watched.

If there is a god, Cancer isnt a creation of His/Hers/its, as it always a problem to the human race, its the crap we eat, breath, put on our skin and live in that causes it, much like alot of the other harmful things to us.
Everyone dies, we can only do our best with the time we are given.

Well, I'd like to hear your arguments for God's existence. By "God" I mean, any only god, not just the Christian one.

Mmm... This just reaks of doublespeak. It makes no sense.

Also, cut this (s)he/it stuff. Let's just call God a "he" out of historical respect.

Yet, all scripture teaches us that the most important criteria for acceptance into heaven (or paradise, or whatever) is belief. That is numero uno. Don't believe? Go straight to hell! Do not collect $200

How is this inherently good? There are some men who believed so strongly that their God would favour them as martyrs that they hijacked airliners and flew them into buildings.

When it comes to religion, the only thing men fight for is the desire to please their God. Their God who commands that they kill anyone who fails to believe in him.

Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."

Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."

Genesis 19:4 - 19:8.

This is deism. Different from modern religions, but equally irrational.

Yeah, the bad things are never God's fault. Whatever.

God is apparently omnipotent and omniscient. Nothing happens unless he gives the OK.

Here's a nice paradox:

God is omnipotent (all powerful) and omniscient (knows all). The fact that the 2006 tsunami (or any disaster) happens, means that God knew about it before it happened (omniscience). Since he knew about it, and he is apparently a good god only capable of doing good things, why didn't he stop it (omnipotence)?

do you believe in a god? any god?

and why?

You think your religion is right and all others are wrong??

No Buddhist who understands the Buddha's teaching thinks that other religions are wrong. No-one who has made a genuine effort to examine other religions with an open mind could think like that either. The first thing you notice when you study the different religions is just how much they have in common. All religions acknowledge that man's present state is unsatisfactory. All believe that a change of attitude and behaviour is needed if man's situation is to improve. All teach an ethics that includes love, kindness, patience, generosity and social responsibility and all accept the existence of some form of Absolute.
They use different languages, different names and different symbols to describe and explain these things; and it is only when they narrow- mindedly cling to their one way of seeing things that religious tolerance, pride and self-righteousness arise.
Imagine an Englishman, a Frenchman, a Chinese and an Indonesian all-looking at a cup. The Englishman says, "That is a cup." The Frenchman answers, "No it's not. It's a tasse." The Chinese comments, "You are both wrong. It's a pei." And the Indonesian laughs at the others and says "What a fool you are. It's a cawan."
The Englishman gets a dictionary and shows it to the others saying, "I can prove that it is a cup. My dictionary says so." "Then your dictionary is wrong," says the Frenchman "because my dictionary clearly says it is a tasse." The Chinese scoffs at them. "My dictionary is thousands of years older than yours, so my dictionary must be right. And besides, more people speak Chinese than any other language, so it must be pei." While they are squabbling and arguing with each other, a Buddhist comes up and drinks from the cup. After he has drunk, he says to the others, "Whether you call it a cup, a tasse, a pei or a cawan, the purpose of the cup is to be used. Stop arguing and drink, stop squabbling and refresh your thirst". This is the Buddhist attitude to other religions..

Do Buddhist believe in god?

No, they do not. There are several reasons for this. The Buddha, like modern sociologists and psychologists, believed that religious ideas and especially the god idea have their origin in fear. The Buddha says:
"Gripped by fear men go to the sacred mountains,
sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines".
Primitive man found himself in a dangerous and hostile world, the fear of wild animals, of not being able to find enough food, of injury or disease, and of natural phenomena like thunder, lightning and volcanoes was constantly with him. Finding no security, he created the idea of gods in order to give him comfort in good times, courage in times of danger and consolation when things went wrong. To this day, you will notice that people become more religious at times of crises, you will hear them say that the belief in a god or gods gives them the strength they need to deal with life. You will hear them explain that they believe in a particular god because they prayed in time of need and their prayer was answered. All this seems to support the Buddha’s teaching that the god-idea is a response to fear and frustration. The Buddha taught us to try to understand our fears, to lessen our desires and to calmly and courageously accept the things we cannot change. He replaced fear, not with irrational belief but with rational understanding.
The second reason the Buddha did not believe in a god is because there does not seem to be any evidence to support this idea. There are numerous religions, all claiming that they alone have god’s words preserved in their holy book, that they alone understand god’s nature, that their god exists and that the gods of other religions do not. Some claim that god is masculine, some that she is feminine and others that it is neuter. They are all satisfied that there is ample evidence to prove the existence of their god but they laugh in disbelief at the evidence other religions use to prove the existence of another god. It is not surprising that with so many different religions spending so many centuries trying to prove the existence of their gods that still no real, concrete, substantial or irrefutable evidence has been found. Buddhists suspend judgement until such evidence is forthcoming.
The third reason the Buddha did not believe in a god is that the belief is not necessary. Some claim that the belief in a god is necessary in order to explain the origin on the universe. But this is not so. Science has very convincingly explained how the universe came into being without having to introduce the god-idea. Some claim that belief in god is necessary to have a happy, meaningful life. Again we can see that this is not so. There are millions of atheists and free-thinkers, not to mention many Buddhists, who live useful, happy and meaningful lives without belief in a god. Some claim that belief in god’s power is necessary because humans, being weak, do not have the strength to help themselves. Once again, the evidence indicates the opposite. One often hears of people who have overcome great disabilities and handicaps, enormous odds and difficulties, through their own inner resources, through their own efforts and without belief in a god. Some claim that god is necessary in order to give man salvation. But this argument only holds good if you accept the theological concept of salvation and Buddhists do not accept such a concept. Based on his own experience, the Buddha saw that each human being had the capacity to purify the mind, develop infinite love and compassion and perfect understanding. He shifted attention from the heavens to the heart and encouraged us to find solutions to our problems through self-understanding.

It means, you dont have to specificaly be a part of a religious group to believe that there is or may be a greater power out there.
People do things religiously to better themselves or the worlds around them every day but dont slap a "God is doing this for me/im doing this for god" or "Im apart of Religion X" for all to see.

What does and atheist care of the historical given genders of something they dont believe in?

Well yeh, if you believe every single word that was written into a book ages ago by someone who probably still thought the world was flat and the stood imobile as the sun orbited it.

You cant blame a riligion for the acts of those that interperate it wrongly and act upon it to do harm to others

, or you may aswell be standing next to the people that say Video games and movies cause people to become violent.

But did you know in some translations where it says they whent to rape the men (Who were said to be angels sent from god to save Lots family) it actualy says they whent to meet them, not rape them. Yay for F%#k ups in translation eh?

Just that "If There is a god" blaming things like Cancer and such on God is just as good a reason to blame to boogey man for it. Its us that cuasing most of the things that are killing us befor our old age gets us.

From the way you talk about your views, you seem more like you are angry at God, rather than not believe in God.

Not angry at God. Angry at religion

From the way you talk about your views, you seem more like you are angry at God, rather than not believe in God.

Why the Europeans adopted an Asian religion above their own is beyond me.

The Romans were Europeans, so thus it is Europeans that tortured and then killed Jesus and not the Jews. Sure the Jews acquiesced in His death but did not carry out the physical act of the killing.

Jesus never had blond hair, blue eyes or white skin. He had black hair, brown or black eyes and brown skin as is the norm for the populace of Western Asia. He spoke no English in fact he only spoke Aramaic and ancient Hebrew.

along comes Jesus. He created a new category of Jew and He called them “Spiritual Jews”. This allowed for “gentiles” to enter into the Kingdom of God. (Gentiles just means non-Jews).

And behold, a Canaanite woman from the region came out and cried, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon." ........ He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me." And he answered, "It is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

Matt. 10:5 "Go not into the way of the Gentiles"

Matt. 15:24 "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel"

John 4:22 "Salvation is of the Jews"

Maybe the Islamic interpretation of Timothy is the reason that some Muslim women are covered head to toe??

The result is a depressive acceptance of social ills, taken as they are to be endured rather than cured. Anti-progressionist, such views have led the world into its darkest years. As with Christianity, when popular Buddhism informs, for example, a painfully disabled person that their present torture is a result of their own past actions or sins, the result is a harmful negativity and horrifies any compassionate person that such doctrines ever came to be. Karmic resolution and Christian sin are both harmful concepts with negative affects on society, especially on the weak and unfortunate.

The theocracy’s religious teachings buttressed its class order. The poor and afflicted were taught that they had brought their troubles upon themselves because of their wicked ways in previous lives. Hence they had to accept the misery of their present existence as a karmic atonement and in anticipation that their lot would improve in their next lifetime. The rich and powerful treated their good fortune as a reward for, and tangible evidence of, virtue in past and present lives.

Journeying through Tibet in the 1960s, Stuart and Roma Gelder interviewed a former serf, Tsereh Wang Tuei, who had stolen two sheep belonging to a monastery. For this he had both his eyes gouged out and his hand mutilated beyond use. He explains that he no longer is a Buddhist: “When a holy lama told them to blind me I thought there was no good in religion.”