How difficult can it be to see that?
2006-09-02 12:12:20 · 26 answers · asked by idspudnik 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My grandfather is the fire. My grandmother is the wind. the Earth is my mother. The Great Spirit is my father.
The World stopped at my birth and laid itself at my feet. And I shall swallow the Earth whole when I die
and the Earth and I will be one.
Hail The Great Spirit, my father without him no one could exist because there would be no will to live
Hail The Earth, my mother without which no food would be grown and so cause the will to live to starve.
Hail the wind, my grandmother for she brings loving, life giving rain nourishing us as she nourishes our crops.
Hail the fire, my grandfather for the light, the warmth, the comfort he brings without which we be animals, not men.
Hail my parent and grandparents without which not I
nor you nor anyone else could have existed. Life gives life which gives unto itself a promise of new life.
Hail the Great Spirit, The Earth, the wind, the fire
praise my parents loudly for they are your parents, too.
Oh, Great Spirit, giver of my life please accept this humble offering of prayer this offering of praise this honest reverence of my love for you.
2006-09-02 12:15:14 · answer #1 · answered by Starla_C 7 · 3⤊ 5⤋
The part that says it comes from a Humanist. I am a Christian, and I believe in God because HE IS. What part of that don't YOU understand?
Humanism is an ideological, political, and religious belief that denies the existence of God. Atheists are humanist, as are new-agers, and many others. The theory of evolution was developed by humanists to create a world devoid of God. Humanism today is prevalent in our media, schools, and government. The religious humanist believes, as the Humanist Manifesto states, that the religions of the world are outdated due to a vastly increased knowledge and experience, and are powerless to solve the problem of human living in this time. Christians know the power of God, but to the humanist the human is divine and must be responsible for furnishing adequate human goals and providing for the spiritual needs of today. Because humanists believe that the universe and its peoples are self-existing and not created, they believe humanism is the only religion capable of leading humans along the evolutionary path...
2006-09-02 19:38:30 · answer #2 · answered by novalee 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I don't know man, you shouldn't trivialize and mock other people's beliefs. I do believe in God, and I understand that it's hard to keep that faith in him when you can't prove his existence. Some do, some don't. Why get angry and make a fuss about it? Hopefully you can be more accepting of people, I also want Christians to be more accepting of others. There is no reason to call him a fool, he doesn't believe in God, that's his choice. God gave us all free will...don't try to take it away from him.
Yes!
2006-09-02 19:22:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
I love it when all of you religious bible thumping god praising hypocrites come out and say f*ck you! blah blah blah, LISTEN TO YOUR PROHPET.
Jesus said to turn the other cheek, and let he who is without sin throw the first stone.
So IF you believe in him then STFU! because all you are doing is sealing yourselves into the Hell the your beliefs correct.
Our consumer driven capitalist society is the only thing that gives so many of us even a reason to live, to get the next new phone or t.v. the next new gadget or gizmo, and I too am quilty of all of these things, I do not pretend that I am better than all the rest of the cattle. BUT WHAT IS THE POINT?? Did we hack and slash our way through milleniums of advancements to be stalled out at microwaves and rollerblades?? we conquered the mountains and valleys, the wwaves and the skies, through human innovation and unwavering vision, yet we have plateued on an ancient battlefield - RELIGION. We are all still captives of an idea that was created thousands of years ago to control an unruly populace, and yet still we fight it out, with suicide bombers, and suit-wearing bike riders, old men in dresses, and prepaid faith healers. If God was anything other than a specific manifestiions of a collection of belief's then his omnipresent, omniscient *** would not want you shitting on His paradise. And an all-knowing all-forgiving God would not banish non-believers to an eternity of torment, thats not exactly all-forgiving. And lets not leave out Allah you stupid jihaders how long do you really think those 72 burka-clad virgins are gonna be virgins?? I don't know about you but I think i'll need a few more than 72 if I have to spend ETERNITY with them! A belief should be a guide your moral center - not a reason to be good - but the psychological manifestation of what it is that is good with in you. How long will our race even scar the face of this paradise that we are destroying, is it even worth trying to be remembered by a culture not worthy enough to even Exist?
BELIEF IS THE ONLY BELIEF. Quit trying to force yourselves on others that is RELIGIOUS RAPE, the forcing of your morals on another culture, and it has caused more deaths on this planet than anything else ever has.
2006-09-02 19:22:20 · answer #4 · answered by rewqfdsavxczrewqfdsavxcz 3 · 6⤊ 3⤋
The part of the statement that says "no".
For you to say "there is no God", means that you know for a fact that God does not exist. This statement is stronger than "I don't believe in God", "I don't see evidence for God", or even "I see evidence that there is no God".
To say "there is no God", you must know this for a fact. In fact, you must know everything! If there is only one thing you do not know, that may be the fact that there is a God, or the evidence that proves God.
To say you know there is no god, you must be all knowing, one of the traits of God himself. If there is ANYTHING you don't know, that leaves room for evidence for God.
I see an abundance of evidence for God! What part of "There is a God" do YOU not understand?
2006-09-02 22:08:38 · answer #5 · answered by JoeBama 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Christians try to delude themselves with the notion that atheists really don't mean it when we say that we don't believe in their god. They genuinely can't imagine anyone going through life without the crutch they need so badly and imagine that we are somehow berift or even amoral without their idea of "divine guidance" (aka: doing what they tell us).
Their own dogma tells threm that regardless of the quality of life you live, if you don't kiss God's ring, you're hosed. Goodness and justice don't enter into it. This is a basic facet of CHristian belief...a critical part of their universe. They can't imagine anything else. They just threaten you with hellfire for your disagreement.
Dogmatic and tunnel-eyed to the end.
2006-09-02 19:17:57 · answer #6 · answered by Scott M 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I'm going to actually answer that. Honestly I don't understand why you bothered to capitalize the word God. If you don't believe in him. It's pnly required of you to capitalize the first word of every sentence and proper nouns. Now, I can see that God is not the first word in your sentence, so you must have capitalized it because it's a proper noun. Why would you consider something a proper noun if you don't even believe that it exists?
2006-09-02 19:21:59 · answer #7 · answered by goinup5 2 · 5⤊ 4⤋
I can deny the fact that you are being ignorant and dogmatic, but you still are. You can deny the fact that there is a God all you want but He's still there. How hard is is to see that? Open your eyes, look around, see creation, the heavens declare the glory of God!
2006-09-02 19:18:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 4⤋
Who can understand GOD ?
As we do not "understand" God we are very keen to give all kind of explanations ...of who, what, where, how.
2006-09-02 19:24:43 · answer #9 · answered by nischal 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The "no" part. Remove it and you have a true sentence. "Believe in God; believe that he is...."
2006-09-02 23:25:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋