When you get older you'll realize this is stupid and pointless, go study the real nature of reality through STEM
Alexander Walker
There's no sky daddy, but god exists in that he is the externalized "source" of good, truth, and creativity. God is that force inside you. Satan is the animalistic destructive force. Your base instincts that just want to eat and fuck and kill. It's man that feeds the hungry, treats the sick, and stands on water, but he can only do these things with a good nature and healthy muse.
Further, heaven and hell are not real places, they're the memory of you held by your loved ones after you die - because that's the only way your you-ness exists. You have everlasting life if you go to heaven if your family thinks back on you fondly and often. You suffer in hell if your family thinks back on you with disdain.
And signing the cross is a reminder of your obligations:
>Father Your forefathers, those that came before you and passed their traits on to you. Your race.
>Son Your heirs, the generations to come, and the legacy you leave behind to them. Your nation.
>Holy Spirit Your inner good, truth, and creativity. Your God
It's all metaphors to explain a certain way of life to uneducated folks (who couldn't even read) 2000-5000 years ago.
Jesus being born of the Virgin Mary coincides with astronomy activity where Jupiter passed through Virgo in the sky. It's often stated here that the Dead Sea Scrolls points to the Caesars heavily influencing early Christianity (though I have not seen this for myself). Old religious folk used to say things like "Don't masturbate or god will give you hairy palms!" or "Don't marry that adulterous woman, she's the devil!" or "Keep holy the Sabbath!" and it all sounds so very "Do it because I said so!" But when you find that masturbation leads to chemical imbalances in the brain, or that women who have more than 5 sexual partners develop a psychological condition preventing them from pairbonding, or that church is a powerful social tool for finding solidarity and meeting like-minded people - I suddenly find myself in a pew every Sunday morning. (End pasta)
Xavier Rivera
Arguing over the unfalsifiable should be left to the lefties
David Phillips
You just described Brahmaan, of which the name Abraham is derived. Study religion on your own, and you'll understand everything.
Tyler Peterson
I was an atheist but when I saw these pedo jews raping kids and worshiping saturn I converted to Jesus.
Do you have any more proof of your theory than believers have in God?
Caleb Miller
Even if you assume the universe is cyclical or that there's an infinite number of universes, inevitably you have to explain how the entire mechanism began in the first place. That impossible lack of knowing is what is now dubbed "god".
I have no problem with this. What I have a problem with is people confusing that concept with the Semitic death cult of Judaism. The god that exists is not the Jewish god and it is insane to me that people believe otherwise. Yes, the creator of the entire universe and/or universes, the being or power that started it all, decided to choose an insular tribe of racist Bronze Age Canaanites on a single chunk of rock in the entirety of the cosmos to be his ambassadors to his entire creation. And they celebrated that fact by slaughtering everyone around them, raping everyone's women, enslaving their children, and burning them to death in front of bronze idols, when not chopping off baby dicks and sucking on the bloody stumps, and/or instigating all of the primary evils that have afflicted the globe in the past three millennia.
You'd have to be an insane person to look at the cosmos and say >Ah yes, the entire point of this existing is so Jews can chop baby dicks
Benjamin Roberts
Kill Yourself then, your existence is pointless you faggot