1. People who've experienced God KNOW that God exists

Comment #180415 by Answer on May 14, 2008 at 9:17 pm

One should never trust an experience that they cannot reproduce empirically or share with another person. True, there are 4 billion Christians and most of them claim to have experienced God. However, this God that they experience has a multitude of different traits depending on who is experiencing it.

My first example was that of Christians, because I live in America where most people are Christian, and because that is what I felt I was personally experiencing before I found the truth.

But what about those genuine followers of Allah, or the people who believe in a pantheon of Gods? Are they simply wrong because the one "true" God told someone so? No, they're all right, because they're all wrong.

The "God" one experiences is more than likely oneself. We are all made out of the same things that stars are made out of. We are all following the same laws of nature and physics as everywhere else in the universe (except for where omittance is necessary i.e. black holes, etc.). It is not hard to believe that we are capable of doing all of the things the Bible claims we are capable of, therefore I assert that we are all Gods in our own way ( I have an interesting theory of relativity).

But if we could all move mountains and if we could all raise ourselves from the dead, there would be no God, because it would be the norm. So, not surprisingly, humanity invented a glorious (damnable) inversion of our limitedness.

So tell me, how can you experience a man who is three people and one of those persons was incarnated 2000 years ago, killed on a cross for claiming to be the son of God, and then neatly folded his dressings and ascended to heaven to be with his father and the holy spirit...who also happen to be him?

I would also assert that several people claim to have experienced being oranges, but they don't look or function much like oranges. They look and function like people whose minds have degenerated.

I apologize for the implied connection between theists and the mentally disabled, but that apology is only because it hurts people to hear the truth.

2. What are your qualifications to question religion anyway? Just who are you?

Comment #180412 by Answer on May 14, 2008 at 9:02 pm

I don't know if or that this has been said already, but I feel that if I am qualified to spend an eternity in an endless fire pit of suffering for all of eternity just for being born (unquestionably without consulting my free will because I did not HAVE a will at my conception) then I am extremely qualified to question the suggested authority and laws of the party that will send me there.