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Syko_Killa:
I bet they use a scanner with keywords set and run it kind of like one of them resume runners. They don't have the time or resources to manually read all the garbage that enters the internet. Yeah, they can read it if they want too. Won't gain any relevant information here. I mean, I thought sinistril was smart until he said scientology was the most relevant religion. I understand your humor, but man you have to believe there is something greater out there. Only those confused scientologists believe that humanity thought themselves into existence. We are not that great, we have an ultimate creator/orchestrator of things and to some degree within the laws of the creation, Some ability to make decisions.
My point was that what is ludicrous to some people about certain religions is how others view their religions. Know what I mean? Every religion claims to be the true religion, and they can't all be right, and the statistical probability that one of them is right is approaching 0. If there was a god, and he told humanity of his existence, and humanity still kills each other over which god it was that told us of his existence, then he can't be a god because he can't even explain his own existence in a satisfying manner or he thinks that the best way to prove his existence is to have us all kill each other until there is only one religion left. Even if a god like that existed, and I had irrefutable proof of it, I would not worship him. He sounds more like a pscyhopath. I think there is the possibility of a hands-off type creator, one that doesn't care either way and thus has not shown us any special path into his grace. Again, not a god I'd worship.
Perhaps we're even AI running on a computer program, to use an analogy, and our entire existence is the creation of some elaborate algorithm. That makes the most sense as far as probability goes, but again, not a god I'd worship and it still does not defeat the turtles all the way down scenario that a Christian or Hindu, etc, god creates. My claim would be that a god is not only not necessary, it's redundant. If god can will himself into existence, then why bother with god at all? Why can't the universe just will itself into existence without the necessity for a god?
I understand why some people feel the need to have a god and it bothered me for a long time, but adding a god into the equation never satisfied the question of existence for me, and the idea of non-existence does not scare me as much as it should. I think the most rational way to look at things is by evaluating the entire nature of the laws of the universe you speak of. If you needed a god to create the laws of the universe, then what law was there that prevented them from being created in the first place? Nothing is self-restricting. It cannot exist. If there is nothing, there's no law that says there cannot be something, thus, there must be something. You can add a god into that equation, but why the extra step?
Anyways, I have no problem with religious people even though I disagree with them, except in the case where they openly tell me they want to kill me.