QUOTE(CheeZe @ May 18 2005, 06:34 PM)
Why do I view the idea of god as bad?
Because god is connected to religion and I hate religion. Religion is the cause of wars as well as hatred toward people. Why should we hate each other for the beliefs?
You may say that people don't "hate" each other, but in real life, they do. But when I say "hate", I don't mean a threatening type, I mean a person who feels another person is not "worthy" or even as far as inferior as to himself.
A minor note, but it shows an example: I don't remember the exact number, but I'm almost sure that over 80% of the american population feels having a well qualified president that is atheist is worse having a not qualified, but religious, president.
If I'm not mistaken, then religion also asks for fair treatment. Well, then, the human race is failing. If there's one thing that humans have, it's greed, and part of greed is to be better than others. Being in a group such as this is the perfect way for someone to fall into this hole.
I, unlike many other people, realize religion has had more negative effects on the human race than anything else. Unfortuantly, many of those who haven't are still brainwashed into believing that their group is the superior and only they should receive immortality.
Once again, this is greed. I guess you could say, greed is what drives people to follow these crazy things. However, while I admit I am greedy, I am not going as far as to destroying human's one goal, learning, and following a path to eternal salvation.
I would rather suffer eternally than to allow human's to lose their only advantage over other races on this planet: the ability to learn.
I also have problems about people saying they are saved simply by faith. If I were religious, I would view this as the stupidest thing ever. Tell me, what point is there to doing good deeds if one could kill everyone on the planet, then ask for forgiveness?
Correct, there is no point. Good works is the most important in recieving salvation if god is truly just. But I guess if the teachings of whatever religions are true, then there is no way he is, so I'm not even going into that.
I still have a huge number of problems with religion, but I'm not going to say them now. I'm actually preparing a really long essay which explains to the smallest detail on why I don't believe in a god.

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This is just the type of answer i was looking for. Direct and well thought-out, not meaningless dribble. I very much agree with you about the idea of a president who must be a christian. This is putting one man above another which is against christian teachings, it's also against christian teachings for man to command man, so therefor a leader or government of control and not regulation is against the basis they base their world on, very unjust. And you're very right about greed, greed has corrupted man for as long as we can imagine. Whether the bible is fact or fiction, greed has destroyed the world, and possibly the true heritage of what the bible actually is, fiction or non-fiction. Gred over money, greed over power, greed over control...Greed itself... There is a good old saying that greed is man's greatest rival, nemesis, and sometimes our enemy.
Nontheless, Religon has caused many problems in the history of the world, but the part you really hit home on is that it all revolves around greed. Every single bit of it, i have yet to see a war that is not based on greed. Religous teachings and beliefs they say? Hitler wanted the whole world because he was a bastard and a spoiled son, communism wasn't supporting him, he was abusing communism. But hey, who cares? The world is more focused on controlling young minds then teaching them facts of both sides, so we should be happy to understand what we do. And not allow this kind of greed to overcome us. But remember this, religon didn't fuel greed, greed corrupted religon/s. Greed is Human kinds best friend, but really he's just a thief. Greed i believe will lead us to our untimely demise. We can already build megatron bombs in our backyard(megatron bombs our computer bombs that can destroy radio waves and electricity). How long until greed leads us to advance so far....and take so much....and give back so little....and abuse enough to the point that we become the soul reason for our own extinction. Our isn't crumbling on just religon, but religon was a fuel, or carrier for much greed, and it still is.
So basically, Yeah, religon has been a source of greed for ages. People have killed, been killed, and fought on all beliefs of their own that they can't even prove to be true. But you know what i found out overtime? I found out that it isn't religon fueling us with all this greed, vengeance, anguish, sorrow, pride, and emnity. It's only 1 spectrum through which all these evil and painful things spread throughout the world. Because religon is so huge, it's the biggest source of spreading all this greed, and sin(yeah i used a word you might not believe in owell). I just know that all I can do as a solution is to find those who are being imbewed with this anger, anguish, sorrow, hate, and greed, and do the best I can when while I can, to whom is near, and try to explain why things are the way they are. Before greed takes hold again, and leads to yet another War on Iraq, or World war 3.....
P.S. Monkeys Rule!
And I don't mean im trying to help the world or something...I just see it as people who i witness doing some sort of misjudging and telling others their views are wrong, i want to attempt to help people see things eye for eye. This is called giving people "truth".