I've been waiting for the right opportunity to take your stance completely apart and it seems it has been delivered to me as a “Gift of the Spirit”. You are the proverbial 'prophet' of the blind faith skeptics. People like YOU are the closest to the real God any skeptic can hope to get. Your overall view is in alignment with SATANISM. Of course you must realize this, right? Search and you will see I am indeed correct!
The big mistake of you skeptics is to BLINDLY ASSUME that God is the direct byproduct of religion. How about blindly assuming that religion is an attempt to make God a commercially sellable product! Search and see for yourself there is a great body of evidence this is indeed the case! There is no indication, I have seen, that Jesus was attempting to start a new religion. All indications were that Jesus was AGAINST RELIGION and was doing His best to give power BACK TO THE PEOPLE!!
MANY WERE THE TIMES JESUS PURPORTEDLY SAID, “YOUR FAITH HAS MADE YOU WELL!” Apparently, it was THEIR FAITH IN JESUS that healed those people, not Jesus Himself.
There are all indications it was left to man to turn Jesus into a religiously sellable product and re-enslave the masses with complicated religious theological dogma.
Look into the matter and you will find that all the “true prophets of God” were usually at odds with the established religions of the day and THOSE VERY RELIGIONS made certain that the true prophets of God WERE KILLED!!! The Jews in Israel are OBVIOUSLY primed and ready to kill any true Jesus who would dare show His face in Israel and preach the very same Gospel.
So you agree that, to be on the safe side, it's best to assume that any rustle in the bushes may very well be a dangerous predator animal, or hoodlum up to no good, right?
What all the major religions, I have studied about, have in common is that they believe the predominantly righteous will eventually be rewarded and the predominantly evil will eventually be punished. That is pretty much a commonality among the greatest religions of the world.
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If you SAY you believe in Jesus, or Krishna, or Allah, or Jehovah, or etc and persist in doing evil you will eventually be held to a much stricter standard than those who do evil and say they do not believe in God at all.
So, juxtapose all the greatest religions of the world and you get the picture of God as being wonderful and loving UNLESS YOU PISS HIM OFF!!!
THEN HE BECOMES WORSE THAT A PREDATORIAL ANIMAL BECAUSE
HE ALWAYS KNOWS WHERE YOU ARE
YOU CANNOT ESCAPE HIM NO MATTER WHERE YOU MAY GO!!
Okay then, using your basic logic it is best to assume there is a God, just in case!
YOU LOSE BY YOUR OWN LOGIC, SKEPTIC!!!
In the final analysis who you say you believe in is irrelevant. If you strive to live a predominantly noble and virtuous life you can assume you are relatively safe. At worst, you will find there is a God and you can say there were too many religious choices so you decided to strive to live a good and noble life and not adhere to any of them. That just might get you off the hook, if there is a God.
As for those who secretly do evil and refuse to repent of their evil...
NO WORTHWHILE GOD WILL SAVE THEM!!!!
I believe I just described YOU, Michael Shermer; for you think nothing of doing your best to shatter the faith of those who believe in God in exchange for what? Something better???
I hardly think so!
I have seen no indications that YOU have anything better to offer those who strive to do good in order to please God. Do you offer then an ironclad guarantee that when people die they will simply cease to exist?
((( NO YOU DON'T!!! )))
So how about being honest, for a change, and openly admitting this fact, skeptic!!!
You act as though you know for certain...
THAT WHICH YOU DO NOT KNOW FOR CERTAIN!!!
And, guess what?
That makes you a...
((( CON MAN!! )))
BTW: How about getting your Hindu facts straight. From my studies it is the father of Ganesh who is the most worshiped God in Hinduism. Do you know who that is? Look it up!
Considering the propensity of man to LIE I now refuse to worship anyone or anything AND I also refuse to believe ANY INFORMATION unless I have personally verified its veracity. You should do the same, skeptic. Be EXTREMELY skeptical of ANY INFORMATION you have not personally verified. If you had done this you would most certainly not have made the mistake about Ganesh. Apparently, you feel all your researched information is...infallible and inerrant.
UPDATE:
"10:56 AM EST on March 2nd, 2014 | 129 comments
NBC in Washington D.C. goes live with ‘Breaking News’ from Fukushima: “Troubling news out of Japan”; Fish showing high levels of radiation — and some of that radioactive contamination could actually be hitting the US in weeks"
http://enenews.com/nbc-washington-dc-live-breaking-news-fukushima-troubling-news-japan-fish-showing-high-levels-radiation-radioactive-contamination-could-actually-be-hitting-weeks-video
MY COMMENT:
Before you blindly believe the assurances of science on ANY MATTER carefully consider how science assured the world that nuclear power was safe. Well, it turns out science was either lying OR didn't know what the hell it was talking about! Unless I am mistaken ALL NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS have the potential of becoming another Fukushima!!! So, I suggest you keep this in mind before you blindly believe ANYTHING science may say, at face value.
And what's the problem with eating radioactive fish, right skeptics? If you are skeptical it will have any negative influences on your being then EAT RADIOACTIVE FISH AND LOTS OF IT, FOOLS!!!!
