I was like 8 at the time, it was the same year I learned Santa and the Easter bunny were also fake.
How old were you at the time? And how did you feel?
2006-09-18 15:20:17 · 97 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please read my words carefully:
If you see footmark in the sand, you'll say that someone passed from here...
If you see a piece of dog sh*t on the ground, you'll say that a dog passed from here...
So what about the enormous universe, the sky, stars, planets, earth and all the beauty in it, doesn't it lead to that someone made it?!!!
Some people say that everything is created by itself after the big-bang... I won't ask you about what caused the big-bang, but I'll ask you a simple question:
If you take all the letters of the alphabet, multiples of them, and you threw them randomly on the floor. Do you expect (by a chance of one in infinity) to get a poem like shakespear's??!!
Can't you see how organized our universe is, the planets, the eco-system on earth, look even in your own body... Can you control your heart-beat? Can you control your breath while you're sleeping? Who stopped your eye-lashes from growing after reaching a certain length? Who told the baby turtles to move towards the sea and not to the earth after they come out of their eggs? Who taught the bird how to make nests?
My friend, think with your heart and brain. If you're still lost, think about the following:
Do you know how to play safe?
Your point:
If there's no God and you do all what you want in life, then nothing will happen to you after life. But if there was God and you were mistaken, then you'll blame yourself FOREVER...
Believer's point:
If there's God and I followed His commands in life, then I'll be in Heaven after life FOREVER. But if there was no God and we're mistaken, then nothing bad will happen to us after life...
Now you know how to play-safe, in case you're not convinced?
2006-09-20 23:43:05 · answer #1 · answered by toon 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
What is every zealot onine right now.
It was in the last two years that I came to the realisation that if there is credence to a "creator" it is not the God of the Christians, Jews, Muslims, or any other religon within the past 5,000 years.
The more I learned the less I cared. The more I learned the more I loved seeing the face of Christians as I explain to them the religous beliefs of Zoroastinism and the ledgends of Osiris. Then they are faced with the fact that the beliefs that are so true to them are actually stories from ancient religons out dating the Jews and the Christians by hundreds sometimes thousands of years.
2006-09-18 15:27:40 · answer #2 · answered by curtaincaller 2 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I was not sad about God being unreal. That was easy, and in many ways relieving. It was the loss of a social structure that could no longer contain me or my way of thinking that caused me to grieve. And because I'm gay, this had already happened to me before. I'm proud of being gay, proud of being able to function without God, and sad that most of the rest of the world has such problems with both of these issues.
2016-02-11 01:20:50 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people say that everything is created by itself after the big-bang... I won't ask you about what caused the big-bang, but I'll ask you a simple question:
If you take all the letters of the alphabet, multiples of them, and you threw them randomly on the floor. Do you expect (by a chance of one in infinity) to get a poem like shakespear's??!!
Can't you see how organized our universe is, the planet
2014-10-27 09:46:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God not exist. What do you believe in? Well yes he does! The acceptance of our Lord is based on blind faith and for that you will reap many rewards. And, to really say that Santa doesn't exist, he did many long years ago and friends and family just continued the spirit of giving to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
2006-09-20 10:19:45 · answer #5 · answered by seansmom12 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There's a line from Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods":
"Isn't it nice to know a lot.....and a little bit not."
It was, as for most people, a process, carried on through my 20s: Questioning what aspect of God is not true. (God cannot be all good, all knowing, and all powerful simultaneously.) Realizing Christianity contained no more sense than any other form of religion, that they were all mythological explanations for death, suffering, injustice, and mystery.
It was the social shift that remains the hardest. Like many people, I built my social life around churches. After all, I grew up the son of a Methodist minister. But there are not a lot of atheist choirs that sing each week, atheist coffee hours that follow a meeting where people talk about ways to cope with life's problems. But ultimately I knew the church and I had moved too far apart.
I was not sad about God being unreal. That was easy, and in many ways relieving. It was the loss of a social structure that could no longer contain me or my way of thinking that caused me to grieve. And because I'm gay, this had already happened to me before. I'm proud of being gay, proud of being able to function without God, and sad that most of the rest of the world has such problems with both of these issues.
2006-09-18 15:34:59 · answer #6 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 1⤊ 5⤋
goes Christmas and Easter. Is there anything else you don;'t celebrate
As far as this family is concerned, I like the idea of fairytales and ghomes. Star Wars etc. Christmas - Easter - Birthdays are about the most prescious and wonderful times of the year for family gatherings. Birthdays not so much, but they still count for family.
2014-09-22 12:49:29 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Santa Clause for Adults...sad really....so many just cant let go of the fantasy....i was sad at first...but i got over it fairly quickly...about 18 years old, old enough to figure out my own path and there wasnt some creep dude telling me what to do, i think i know right and wrong on my own i had good parents
2006-09-21 18:40:54 · answer #8 · answered by Alicia F 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well now there goes Christmas and Easter. Is there anything else you don;'t celebrate
As far as this family is concerned, I like the idea of fairytales and ghomes. Star Wars etc. Christmas - Easter - Birthdays are about the most prescious and wonderful times of the year for family gatherings. Birthdays not so much, but they still count for family.
Never did get round to telling my children WHY spoil the whole idea of Love for all.
2006-09-18 15:26:12 · answer #9 · answered by aotea s 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
For those out there that say that god exists because how else would the world have been created......well go look up the Big Bang Theory on Google and read that over some. Just some food for thought for you all "believers".
2006-09-18 15:35:29 · answer #10 · answered by djdizzy28 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋