"I seriously don't understand how anyone can be a complete atheist. It's impossible IMO. Even if you believe in evolution, in the big bang or whatever that started it... my question is what started the big bang??"
- I seriously don't understand how anyone can be a complete Christian. It's impossible IMO. Even if you believe in God, my question is, who/what started God? I have a simple answer for that. Man made god. (Fucking good song too...)
Homo sapiens most likely emerged in Africa, 100,000 to 250,000 years ago. The earliest of the book religions, Judaism, emerged around the 13th century BCE. Christianity did not develop until the beginning of the first century AD.
The biblical account of Adam and Eve states that God created humans; however, after the emergence of humans, there happens to be more than a 90,000 year gap before the first book religion came to be. During this long time period, humans practiced a plethora of pagan faiths, varying from region to region. Then somehow, Judaism emerged. If there was a god, why were other deities worshiped? What makes the book religion god more valid than the gods of the pagan faiths? Is the Christian God more real than Siva/Vishnu of the Hindu faith, or the Greek Zeus?
If God is the ultimate creator, why are there other gods, worshipped by people before the emergence of book religions?
The founders of the book religions were all human and mortal (this refers to the main point that man made god). What makes their claims to have communicated with a god of some sorts valid? If God created humans, why were Judaism/Christianity/Islam not the religions of humans since mankind's emergence from Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago?
It is for you to answer the questions for yourself and judge the validity of my statements.
On a more comical note, it seems that the founders of the book religions all came from desert regions... there's probably something growing out there that makes people hallucinate and think they've encountered some supreme being... maybe it makes people more sensative to the already powerful sunlight in the desert... and makes everything seem like a blur of light, hence the phrase "show me the light!"