Atheists, Satanist, Paganists, WHATEVER you are...
How can you honestly believe we have no God.. our Lord and Creator???? Even the Declaration of Indepedence said- and I quote.. "endowed by their Creator certain inalienable rights"
Ok.. so if your creator was your parents, then your rights would not be inalienable would they??? Only GOD can grant LIFE and therefore only HE can take it away...
God's grace, power, mercy, and love are ALL AROUND YOU... how can you NOT see it???
Wow this is weird... like a dream I had last night... but nvm...
But I just don't understand how you can look at the world and not think we came from a higher being...
2007-09-22 09:37:46 · 26 answers · asked by justagirl 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wow... well the Earth HAS to have evil in it for the fact that you have to be tried in your faith to prove you really believe to make it into the Lord's graces... if you say you belive but don't stand by God if something bad happpens- some follower you are.... I really don't get you people...
I just hope you find the light before the end comes... because it is near... the prophecies are being fulfilled... and I feel horrible for anyone stuck behind for the devil to reign over... I guess yu'll find out after the fact though huh... when all the faithfull vanish from this earth and hell on earth begins- you think it's bad now... JUST WAIT
2007-09-22 09:49:17 · update #1
I agree with you, primarily because for the universe to even come into existence, it *had* to come from something! Only a force greater than random chance or evolution could have brought into being such a complex *something* out of nothing! Most evolutions I've heard from tend to discount this; but I find it *very* relevant! In order for something to evolve into something else, it first has to have existed! The complexity of the cell, of life in all its many forms, the beauty of the rainbow, the stars in the sky, the birth of a human, or even an animal, baby - all show me irrefutable proof of a superior intelligence which is omnipotent, which Jews and we Christians call God!
Hey, "atheist-hole": How can YOU not see all the EVIDENCE around *you* that random chance and evolution could not *possibly* have produced humans and indeed all other plants and animals, in all their complexity? *This* evidence is truly all around us!
To the person(s) who claims, wrongly, that our Founding Fathers were *not* Christians: That would make it even *more* significant that they recognized Creator God!
2007-09-22 10:56:09 · answer #1 · answered by trebor namyl hcaeb 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
*You* believe only God can create life. I don't. *You* believe that all around us is the grace, power, mercy and love of a God. I don't. Are you so close-minded that you can't accept that? That you genuinely can't see that people could doubt the existence of an all-powerful, all-loving God, when in the name of religion, terrorists are doing terrible things to innocent people? When George Bush sent troops into a country that has been war-torn ever since for no apparent reason - aside from that God told him to? When half the world is starving, when a young boy is shot on the way home from playing football, when planes are crashing in Thailand, killing so many...shall I go on?
I see all of this, and I would never dream of asking you how you can possibly believe in a God. I'm sure in your head, all of that horrible, horrible stuff can be explained away. In my head, it doesn't, and you should have a little respect for that.
2007-09-22 17:11:32 · answer #2 · answered by LifeIsAFreeTripRoundTheSun 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How do you know that there is a God? How do you know that the bible isn't just a book of stories? After all, the bible isn't a complete book. There are stories that haven't been included because the pope had his own agenda when it came to cannonizing the stories. How can you believe in a god that has allowed people to force their beliefs onto others through wars and plagues? And I'm not just talking about the Osama Bin Laden. I'm talking about the Christian wars of the Middle Ages and even before that when Christians forced their beliefs on the pagans. And did you know that many of the Christian holidays that we celebrate today have roots in Pagan beliefs? No one knows for sure when Jesus was born. He was given the same birthday as a pagan goddess. How can you believe that the bible says witches are evil when in reality pagan witches were actually women who were healers for their people?
You have trouble understanding, because you have trouble opening your mind to other beliefs outside of your own.
2007-09-22 17:02:03 · answer #3 · answered by Rubette73 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't see any evidence of said "Creator" or "higher being," and so it is more logical to lack belief that one exists. Just as you can't understand the position of a nontheist, I can't understand why people need to see magic at the bottom of things in order to appreciate their beauty.
The Declaration of Independence does say that. That does not prove the existence of said creator, only that the writers of it believed in one. So what? Nobody's right 100% of the time.
2007-09-22 16:51:43 · answer #4 · answered by N 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Constitution only said "Creator". It did not go on to specify that the creator must be God. This country was founded on the idea that we have these inalienable rights (an atheist could argue that our parents endow us with certain rights simply because they created and gave birth to us) and should be allowed to pursue our own paths, as long as we do no harm to others in the process.
From one Christian to another -- you gotta learn to respect the right of others to disagree with you.
2007-09-22 16:46:39 · answer #5 · answered by ◦Delylah◦ 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's easy, actually. You just don't understand because it's so ingrained into you to BELIEVE in the existence of magical, supernatural beings.
And the fact that the Declaration of Independence uses the word "creator" is not proof of a creator. It only means that the writer accepted the possibility of some sort of creator.
2007-09-22 16:47:17 · answer #6 · answered by Jess H 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So you're saying that I have to believe in God to have my rights respected? Is that some sort of threat? Or just really a narrowminded outlook? As a pagan, I do believe in gods, but I don't think that's where my rights come from. I believe all humans have rights based on the fact that they are humans. The Declaration of Independence merely recognises those rights.
2007-09-22 16:45:23 · answer #7 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because there is no evidence for one. And the "creator" in the Declaration was the Deist God, not the Christian one. Pagans do believe in gods, just not the same as you. How I can look at the world and not think it came from a higher being...
Natural disasters, starvation, deformed babies, cancer, etc, etc, etc.
2007-09-22 16:45:57 · answer #8 · answered by mattgo64 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I believe it because there is no evidence to the contrary. Just because the world is marvellous doesn't mean Somebody created it. That's not logical. Anyway I would hate to have my life watched by Somebody, I'd be well spooked if I thought that, as I am I know what is right and what is wrong but if rules came from Somebody else I would never be sure who it was OK to smite.
2007-09-22 16:45:04 · answer #9 · answered by florayg 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Paganists? lol that's a new one. For the record, pagans are almost NEVER atheistic. Most of us are polytheistic, and others are pantheonistic.
WOW the Declaration of Independence said that there's a God! I bet if the Declaration said that you could jump off a cliff and live, you'd believe it too!
So basically what I'm trying to say is that you are a hateful bigot who needs to get a life.
2007-09-22 16:43:58 · answer #10 · answered by xx. 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋