Hello, I’ll like to say thank you everyone for posting you views.
As for some of the other posts, saying Christianity is evil or bad is the same as saying money is the root of all evil. ok, are the bark of a tree which is made into paper or the minerals that is used to make the metals evil? to be honest its the person that will do anything for money that is evil. for example if you give someone power, over an extended time you will be able to test the limits of which they can be corrupted.
there is evidence that there are priests in Rome and throughout the world that have raped children, but should we blame Christianity or should we blame these men. our prisons are full of men and women who are and are not religious, but when something bad happens and the perpetrator claims it is for religious value, the blame goes to his religious view rather than the fact that he is a living breathing human being capable of making his own decisions.
wars are not always religious but religion is often used as an excuse. once religion can no longer be used as an excuse these people will think of something else.
I don’t know if many of you know this but the slave trade between Europe, Africa and America was accepted because the traders admitted documents saying they were going to Africa for Christian missionary work. sure it is true that they made Christians, but also enslaved these Christians in the process. their churches in Angola and Senegal were built on top of underground dungeons, which were used to break the spirit of the slaves before sending them on the ships to America. their churches had a long hole in the middle of the room so the slave trader can watch their slaves while they were praying. these slaves were chained together with no food or clean water, people often died of disease and malnourishment or even go in a state of shock due to the build up of stress and poor conditions. these people who called themselves Christians had no understanding of what Christianity is.
but even though the slave traders were Christians should their faith be blamed for their selfish misdeeds or should the person who committed these acts be blamed. I understand why people hate religion but dose the fact that good and well educated people are religious mean nothing?
I am a Christian and my older brother is Muslim, choices made by ourselves. not because it was bred into us, but because we have the right to think what we want (free will).
also the bible shouldn’t be taken the way many Christians do. it is literally a story of the creation of us humans and the way we have developed and the way we should try and live our life. taking the bible too seriously isn’t good because we have to remember that even though it is the gospel and the words of god it was still written by a human from a human point of view. and what was accepted as a part of life then is not true for us today. we don’t have to live it like a text book, but look at it, learn from it, take advice from it and if your lucky live a better life from it. we shouldn’t think it is fact and none of it is wrong or misleading. I watched an interesting program on national geographic which explained that there is text missing from the bible, but oh well its too late to recover what has already been destroyed.
Evolution... something that is not fact but has shown signs of being real. I honestly think evolution is real even though it may be more complex than we think. remember evolution and natural selection happens at many different levels and is partly the reason why each living organism is different. but people saying you cant believe in evolution if your Christian is ludicrous. the bible doesn’t state that humans came before animals it just mentions humans first.
as for the pope, well I believe that good people get into heaven but the pope isn’t more likely to go to heaven than me or you. he is not a higher being but a human, so he follows the rules the same as all of us. he is nothing more than a physical manifestation made by Rome to put a body to heaven. he and all of the other priests don’t deserve to be worshiped.
and now the big question is God real? well to be honest I have no idea. I’ll like to think there is something out there which is why I have faith but I’m not sure. I’ll like you to remember the story of moses, he describes how he sees a flaming bush and which said it was god. I personally dont take very much from the story of moses because it seems too unearthly at parts, but the flaming tree has always stayed in my mind. I think its because if god dose exist the chances are it is a pure energy. and as you know an energy cannot be created or destroyed only redirected. for example: vibrations create heat, heat creates light and so on. so if god is real it will be in the form of pure energy of some sort maybe resemble a flame or bright light.
but the fact that energy cannot be created sparks the question, how did the big bang happen? the thing is supposedly there was nothing before, so nothing could of triggered the big bang. honestly if there was an explosion so big that it can create new Worlds and whole galaxies something huge must of sparked it. I study biology but focus on zoology (the study of animals) and if you ask many biologist what is consciousness they will simply say they don’t know for the simple fact that we don’t understand what it is. why do dogs show affection to there owner even if their owner abuses them? what makes a cat feel fear or a human feel love? these are things we don’t know as scientists, but science is in itself another form of faith.
faith in the human mind.
my aim from this post was not to change anybody into a religious person, but just to let you know that having an open mind is a good thing. Not everything is how it looks at first glance.
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