When you realize that Deity is not physically or mentally knowable, then Atheism "Deity is physically and mentally, absent" and Theism "Deity IS, (physically and mentally absent)" become synonymous.

If that's the case, then why aren't all religions *one* religion?

I shall now proceed with Faith Healings.
Know that you are a colony of Cells.
Every ailment is a symptom of ONE disease; Cellular Malfunction.
In order to repair these ailments, you simply need the proper nutrition for your cells.
In order to give them that, you only need a simple few foods, but they should preferably be eaten raw.

Seaweed-wrapped sushi/sashimi of your choice.
Shelled peanuts with no additives.
Citrus and Berries.
Broccoli.
Cold water (a great detoxifier).

Go forth, eat, drink, and be merry.

Originally posted by Lowell

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If that's the case, then why aren't all religions *one* religion?

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"The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?" ~ Jeremiah 17:9

I'm not saying religion is bad or anything, but if it didn't exist, along with money (No poor people), then the world would not be fighting. There would be plenty of food, clothes, accessories for everyone, and we wouldn't be trying to stop one country from bombing another....

Originally posted by lbock3

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I'm not saying religion is bad or anything, but if it didn't exist, along with money (No poor people), then the world would not be fighting. There would be plenty of food, clothes, accessories for everyone, and we wouldn't be trying to stop one country from bombing another....

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so, if we were communist everything would be okay?

give me a break

You know, if you didn't act irrational for more than 2 seconds geo, and actually think about what I'm trying to infer, then maybe you'd see I'm trying to say if Money and Religion didn't bind the world and create a superiority battle, then most of the violent situations (AKA Jerusalem getting attacked for a religious reason, robberies, drug dealers making money off crack, then getting arrested, a family getting brutally murdered because they didn't pay tax for 10 years, killing someone for money, and other problems.) wouldn't even occur. I'm not trying to be communist, but look at the fact that mobsters kill for money, just a material thing, and drug lords kill other drug dealers to steal their drugs in order to make a profit. Crime would drop significantly by basis of financial and religious terms. Religion is great, it makes us question existance, but the problem is the extremists who take it way too far; If there is going to be religion in this world then make only one: Unity, believe what you want to believe and if someone likes something you don't, then respect their opinion, unlike Geogree over here calling me a communist. We don't act violently when someone says they like chocolate milk and you like strawberry milk, do we? I'm not saying religion is small talk, but why act violently over an opinion? The world contradicts itself; We want to believe there's one great power that birthed the world, but there are different versions of the tale, why can't we accept one another's opinion? Geogree, I respect your rash opinion of calling me "Communist", even if it was a little bit illogical. God, Buhda, Ala, all different interpretations of creation. But if the world continued on without anyone starting "Religion", we would not be arguing like this. Athiests, satanists, witches, pagans, Christians, if everyone just got along without getting angry about another person's opinion, and if money didn't exist, or at least everyone had a lot of it, there would be no robberies, burglaries, drug dealing, or mobs to make money...


Geo, please respect my opinion, I respect yours.

yeah, pure communism removes 2 things from society. Religion and the need for money.

so, basically you promote communism.... maybe not the Eastern European version, but you still do

and whats wrong with that? oh... right... the whole US capitalist thing... as long as most of the world has a capitalist system then America holds its power at the top... Why are you guys so sensitive about communism anyway? its not like its satanism.

Communism isn't even bad, the US doesn't tell you it provided jobs for poor people, education for deprived children, and other positive things. You're rather biased, Geo, I'm sick of you thinking the united states has the best culture. By the way, Christianity actually isn't the most popular religion: Muslim is, it's more popular by about 400,000,000 people.

Don't you DARE say I'm a communist just because I have the "Audacity" to have a different opinion!

Do you honestly believe that removing money and religion would actually solve problems? Not likely. Wealth would still exist without money. Unless you forced everyone to have a certain amount of everything (communism).

I never said pure capitalism was the only solution, but it's a far better solution than communism ever has been. Communism goes side by side with dictatorships while capitalism generally goes along with democratic style governments. Democracy = better. Taking money and religion out of the mix doesn't fix anything. People are still people. They are still greedy and jealous. That will never change.

The way you make the world "better" is by making people better.


oh, and when did I say you couldn't have an opinion? I don't think I did. I just pointed out the similarities between your argument and communism. That doesn't mean you're not allowed to express the opinion any more than it means I can't say I think your idea is stupid.

I didn't say you said I couldn't have an opinion. True you cannot change how people are by taking away money/religion, but how do you change PEOPLE? No matter how many ways the country tries to open their eyes to the problems, a large group of them still do not care...

the simple fact is that you can't change people.

People will change when they want to cahnge. Give them incentive to change. Remove their incentive to remain in the rut they are in. Offer them something better.

,,,,Impeach Bush?

right.... kind of like how the dems getting congress would make the country better?

except they've done NOTHING in 4 months

Geeogree has the general thoughts of psychology down. It's like "How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but it has to want to change."

Very true. The country really doesn't even know where it's going right now... Dem's such, because like vash said, they haven't done anything since January...

God doesn't believe in Athiests therefore Athiests don't exist.

Hehe. Gotta love signs outside of churches.

wow wow wow geo stop. Where did you hear that God doesn't believe in atheism?

oops I forgot something: What in your point of wiew ar atheists?

I was making fun of the atheist point of view.

Most of them don't believe in God therefore he obviously doesn't exist.

that's all

haha, i get it

yeah... I guess if you don't know me it may not have looked like I had intended it to.