Post by Lord MIW on Feb 18, 2005 19:29:47 GMT -5
I know it has flaws, and I know it's a copy/paste, but it's interesting enough.
Here's my little theory, presuming there is a God. There is no Hell. 'Hell', in what its been described, is actually Earth. Here. Life. There is an afterlife, accessible to everyone bar murderers, rapists, and what not - people who have taken away from someone elses life. Perhaps they go back to what we had before we were born, or are seperated from the other afterlifers.
Now God is actually a nice guy. He helps us through the pain we have on Earth - the random destruction that has nothing to do with him - by giving us 'happy' things. Love, other people, beauty, sound.
'Satan' is actually inside all of us, our 'dark side' if you will. Using a bit of it is OK, as long as it doesn't destroy others, but then you have some people whose dark side consumes them and makes them 'evil' beings.
God is also there for us. If we ask him in, and we need his help, he helps us. If we don't need him, we can do it on our own, it doesn't matter, he doesn't help us.
No religion is right, no religion is wrong. They're all just different takes of the same basic story. There was a Jesus, there was a Mohammad. They're all people God has sent to help us through life.
Now that to me makes God out to be a good, decent person. Sure, my idea doesn't explain animals... perhaps evolution is true and God wanted to see what his first few seeds would eventually turn in to.
What is wrong with that viewpoint? No religious hate - because everyone's right, even atheists. God portrayed as a kind person who helps us. Homosexuals are accepted, because they enhance each others lives. Certain 'sins' that don't necessarily take away from life, are no longer sins. What exactly, is so bad about that?
Here's my little theory, presuming there is a God. There is no Hell. 'Hell', in what its been described, is actually Earth. Here. Life. There is an afterlife, accessible to everyone bar murderers, rapists, and what not - people who have taken away from someone elses life. Perhaps they go back to what we had before we were born, or are seperated from the other afterlifers.
Now God is actually a nice guy. He helps us through the pain we have on Earth - the random destruction that has nothing to do with him - by giving us 'happy' things. Love, other people, beauty, sound.
'Satan' is actually inside all of us, our 'dark side' if you will. Using a bit of it is OK, as long as it doesn't destroy others, but then you have some people whose dark side consumes them and makes them 'evil' beings.
God is also there for us. If we ask him in, and we need his help, he helps us. If we don't need him, we can do it on our own, it doesn't matter, he doesn't help us.
No religion is right, no religion is wrong. They're all just different takes of the same basic story. There was a Jesus, there was a Mohammad. They're all people God has sent to help us through life.
Now that to me makes God out to be a good, decent person. Sure, my idea doesn't explain animals... perhaps evolution is true and God wanted to see what his first few seeds would eventually turn in to.
What is wrong with that viewpoint? No religious hate - because everyone's right, even atheists. God portrayed as a kind person who helps us. Homosexuals are accepted, because they enhance each others lives. Certain 'sins' that don't necessarily take away from life, are no longer sins. What exactly, is so bad about that?