Sin

Who's doing the crushing?

So you have an omnipotent God who doesn't actually do anything. How is that different form no God at all?

You're taking the blame for everything bad that happens, aren't you?

Doesn't it? Where's the "communion" if we make our own decisions and Jesus/God decides to forgive us? Seems like two separate processes to me.

As I keep telling you, I see no evidence of a "communion". If God was important, why wouldn't there be some improvement in the people who think He's important? Characters like Jesus don't even exist outside its pages. Why cherry-pick what you like and ignore what you don't?

What consensus? That's the problem with making it up to suit yourself. No two people have the same interpretation. How is that possible? Isn't evil part of "all seen and unseen"? Not in reality. Evidence always counts.But you're missing the point. You believe in Jesus but the only place Jesus exists is in the Book. You choose to believe that part of the Book, but you throw away the parts you don't like. On what basis do you believe in the Jesus of the Bible but not the God of the Bible?

Evil is basically just anything that has bad consequences. Of course bad consequences are in the eye of the beholder. The poison spider is glad that you died and not him. That's an odd notion coming from somebody who supposedly believes in Heaven. Isn't Heaven supposed to be that perfect world with no bad consequences? Don't we all want that? Why are you so concerned about "development" in this life when you want it to stop in the next? The fundamentalist belief seems to be that we would run wild, raping and killing each other. They say so explicitly.I would suggest that empathy has nothing to do with belief in God.

The good religions start as humanist philosophy.The bad ones make excuses for why God's needs are more important than ours.

Here we go again. What does God need? And why do we need a needy God?

quote:

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"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,"
-- Irina Dunn

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Do we really need a god? Or do we just wish there was a god to fulfil our needs?

Faith believes we already fell. God set our ancestors up to fall and he blames every subsequent generation for what He did. For what?

The Sherpas are human. Those who went before us were human. You could possibly use that line of thought to argue that the first human needed God - but why do we need God?