Otherwise why should he create humans for the sole purpose of singing and dancing in his praise ?
2007-12-04 20:04:36 · 17 answers · asked by madhatter 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
AJ....
The one God that every religion claims to be the ONLY TRUE ONE
Even where they have many Gods a supreme is always identified.
2007-12-04 20:16:50 · update #1
Javed......
One can make fun of Bush and Blair
without fear of being labeled a heretic.
With all their shortcomings democracies do allow for and tolerate freedom of speech.
No fanatic brays for their blood
2007-12-04 20:33:49 · update #2
Hey, it's great being Allah! Being Allah means never having to say you're sorry.
Because you're not.
Okay, okay . . . here's my serious answer . . .
. . . It seems to me there's a serious question behind the flippant one you posed.
When most of us think about religion, it's ORGANIZED religion. Organized religion is a self-enforcing belief system. God is NOT a self-enforcing belief system. He is the Creator or he is nothing. God is a remote possibility (at best). Religion is DEFINITELY a sham. No question about it.
We know and can prove that man creates gods: we've created them thousands of times, all over the planet. However, the opposite is not knowable or provable. There's no reason to inject the supernatural into reality: but if you insist, then the proposition that God created man is pure conjecture – NOBODY knows the supernatural. Period.
The fact that man has created countless gods, from time immemorial, is very compromising to believers. They assert that the gods and religions that came before and after their own are false – but theirs is real and true. Maintaining the falsehood of those thousands of other gods and religions – while claiming the truth of their own – is patently and transparently ridiculous. Is it not?
I've tried to tackle huge topics in a single answer and usually don't succeeded well. Sometimes I raise more questions than I answer because space is limited here.
There are a myriad of arguments for or against God. There's no direct evidence for a creator God but it's a well-known fact that men create gods. To me, it's necessary to define what you mean by "God" to begin with. For most of us, that means a God defined by a religion.
And that's where the problems start . . . at least for the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam). For the remainder of this answer, any mention of "religion" means "Abrahamic religion" for short.
Religions are born into enmity because they try to lay claim to God. This insistence on exclusivity sets up religions for contention unless or until they convert the entire world – thereby eliminating the "competition". This is why, I believe, these religions all await the end-time when God will finally do the eliminating for them.
It's a forgone conclusion that no single religion (much less, denomination!) will win the world on its own. After all, they've had between 1,400 and 3,500 years (Islam and Judaism, respectively) to do so and haven't made any real progress. Christianity, with over 2 billion adherents, leads the pack but Islam, at 1.3 billion, is coming on strong (again). Despite being many centuries older than Christianity or Islam, Judaism has only 14 million adherents. If ANY religion truly is THE right one, I don't believe the competition would have survived this long.
Given all this . . . how are we supposed to decide which religion, if any, is right? The first one? The biggest one? The most sophisticated one? The most realistic one? The competition reduces our choice to a roll of the dice. And why would we go to hell for choosing the wrong one? It's ridiculous. Can God really be so sadistic? And if so, why would you worship him?
No . . .
NO religion can be valid if God exists AND is good. Any entity who could create the universe, would not be so petty as to set up his "intelligent" beings for condemnation. Why would the Creator give us free choice, only to confuse the choice of Creator? I say that if God exists, ALL religions are heretical. If God is good, we wouldn't be killing each other in His name. In the paraphrased words of Stephen Roberts:
"I contend that we are both anti-religion. I just believe in one fewer religion than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible religions, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
Oh yes . . . and forget about "Original Sin". It's the biggest lie in the Bible and the foundation of other lies. I am no more accountable for Eve than I am for Hillary Clinton or for you.
I believe God could, or might, exist; but I'm certain that NO religion is valid.
:-)
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2007-12-04 20:07:00 · answer #1 · answered by Seeker 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Democracy does not have fanatics like religions have .God does not boast as mush as his agents .you might have seen that the servants of great noble men making much fuss while their masters are very humble .Such is the case with the Agents of God who boast with arrogance that God should be approached only through them whereas God had made eeverything without the knowledge of those Agents .Not even an ant was made with the knowledge and intervention of these self- appointed Agents . It is the self- appointed Agents of God who were solely responsible for the destruction of faith in God and for the creation of Atheists in the world .It is not God who is at fault
2007-12-04 21:21:18 · answer #2 · answered by Infinity 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you confused between God and his spin doctors.
Have you heard God speak, Honestly.
God does not ask, demand, or order.
It is the religious zealots who tell you what to do.
I do not like organized religion. I do not follow any spin doctor.
My God is Sat-Chit-Anand, that is that. I want to be one with him.
In social life I go to Temple, Church, or Gurudwara. I attend Bhajan, kirtan, and lectures. I learn from all, but i follow my own path.
"Truly speaking every one in this world who is a seeker of truth and interested in knowing truth in an objective and detached manner is a Hindu, whether he believes in God or not, whether he is a Hindu or a Buddhist or belongs to some other faith. A Hindu is an individual soul who has been separated from God, is under illusion and has been in the process of rejoining God some day. No one need force him to become a Hindu in the physical sense, because one day, in some birth, he will become aware of what he is or who he is. What he does in between is all part of a Divine Play." -V. Jayaram
2007-12-04 23:19:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did the Gods come and tell you to sing and dance in his praise ?? Ego is just for the mortals like you and me and not for Gods. They are beyond all these materialistic values. You seem to have got it all wrong. FYI, it is those enlightened men and women who have experienced "God", mention about singing and dancing in his praise. You can follow or you do not have to follow their advice. God never forces you to do so !!!!
2007-12-05 00:44:32 · answer #4 · answered by Ganesh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the whole purpose of the Golden Rule preached by Jesus was to treat others as I would like to be treated, I can follow his philosophy without believing in god. What type of god would want me to pledge my fealty to him or her simply for the sake of believing or proving my allegiance? I would expect god is beyond pride and the need for some following.
2007-12-04 20:09:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
By singing and dancing in praise of God people are just satisfying themselves; they are not inflating anybody`s ego .
2007-12-05 16:18:08 · answer #6 · answered by ntadepalli 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. God loves us who are His creatures. When you love
somebody you are not a snob.
Holy Quran says that when Almighty God told the angels that
He was about to create Adam, they raised the question:
" Are you making the one who will corrupt the earth and slay
and shed blood on it, whereas we pray thee and glorify
your good name?" (Chapter 2)
Which means that His servants have a right to question, in spite of their limited knowledge. Does George Bush or Tony
Blair give you this right, although they were elected by your
votes?
Javed Kaleem
2007-12-04 20:24:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nope, its just the right and fair thing to do.
Because He knows He's All-Powerful, so if people should pray then He is the One that should be prayed at.
And if anyone is deserving of respect, then He should be respected. He's way more powerful, way more older and way more knowledgeable among other things that people respect this is still an understatement though.
2007-12-04 20:12:48 · answer #8 · answered by najahian85 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One Kind information that we created the God so that god must have Ego..
2007-12-04 20:21:58 · answer #9 · answered by natrayan1975 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
From what all the Christians are always claiming...
He's a giant cosmic "belief" vampire...
He feeds off of our "belief in Him..."
And when He doesn't get it...
He gets so angry...that when you die...he sends your residual energy essence to an eternal torture chamber...
And, Hey! That sounds fair, doesn't it?!?
For a "finite" amount of mistakes you couldn't possibly avoid making in life...
You get an "infinite" amount of punishment after you die...
Sounds reasonable to me...
NOT...
2007-12-04 20:10:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋