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Originally Posted by Immortal Goat
As Morpheus said...
"Free your mind."
Wouldn't that be a complete mind-job if the Matrix was real and God was nothing but a highly intelligent computer mainframe?
just thought I'd throw that in there...
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If you want to keep this discussion serious, please don't. :/
It's funny when you think about it, belief is not much more than to choose to stop asking certain questions. That isn't good or bad, but some people just want to rid their thoughts of all questions and therefore choose the answers - sometimes, the literal Bible. Because they've stopped asking questions, they fail to question the origins of the Bible, and therefore fail to grasp that it's man-made. When you strip the concept of God down to its basics, there's so little left that it can easily exist in perfect harmony with science. In that respect, "God" is merely the answer to a question that no one can answer with certainty - where did it all begin? And that's really no more ridiculous an answer than to say the universe is an infinite circular motion of implosion and explosion.
And if you do go by the literal Bible, or even just the parts of it that describe God, you find that he's not so infinite and infallible as everyone thinks. His patience has limits. He can be angry. He can be sad. He can be happy. He can choose one person over another. He can justify the killing of entire peoples because they don't believe in him. I'm not saying that God's a bastard. I'm saying that man made God in his image.