Why do people insist on ‘faith’ in Religion? If God, or the Gods, are so special, and care about humans so much, why would they refuse to make themselves known?
Using your definition of a ‘miracle’ and saying that is the way the Gods make themselves known is fallacy. Every one knows so-called ‘miracles’ have no relation to a higher power, if you believe they do then you are a pretty cruel person.
If a plane crashes and 300 people die, one child survives, and you call that a miracle, you’re basically telling the families of the 300 that their God didn’t find any of them worthy enough to survive. Or that in a strange bit of happenstance it was time for 300 people to go to the “After-life” but not for that 1 child, even though 10 other children were on the plane.
Countless times it has been pointed out that almost every religious story is a repeat of an older religions story. Everything from the resurrection to walking on water has been told before. With different casts of characters.
People are more likely to follow the beliefs of their parents and not some belief that comes to them in a vision or a feeling, yet people still like to claim that God talks to them. But then they call others wrong for having their beliefs even those that never claim to ‘talk directly to God’.
One problem with religions is that they are all mutually exclusive. If you believe in one way, you cannot believe in another. So which one would be right? None of them. They all spring from some human urge to feel they need a purpose. They can’t accept that their life could just end when they die. Even if there is an afterlife and a “God” there, do you really want to meet him? The ‘being’ would like you to worship him every day. You’re supposed to believe in him without anything in return except supposedly when you die, if you believe then he will be kind enough not to send you to a fiery hell for all eternity.
God really must have wanted to test the Catholic’s faith when he thought it best that his men molest young boys.
Maybe he wasn’t home at the time and couldn’t see it happening, he was visiting his neighbor planet Kolob and just couldn’t stop it in time.
Or he was providing the 70 virgins for a terrorist that had died that day.
It could have been that he was working up the right words on how to tell the President of the United States that he needed to invade Iraq.
Oh those that wish to keep living their happy little lives, write off all of the ‘bad things’ that happen related to God, or told by God, or supposedly ‘done’ by God, to different things. Satan made them do it. Those people weren’t true believers. We don’t follow the old testament anymore. The list goes on.
Religion is a farce.
Tags: Death, God, Jesus, Satan