Fucking militant atheists... with their... equality... and reason and shit. Why can't they just shut up and let religions oppress people like they always have? We don't need change. The status quo is perfect. Romney/Ryan 2012
"reason"... That's what I just love about atheism. The "reason" behind it, and its complete consistency with science. The big bang theory, for example, which can either defy the law of conservation of mass which states that matter is neither created nor destroyed, or it can mean that all the mass of the universe was compressed into one tiny area and then for some reason exploded instead of creating a black hole like it always does today and then in the completely accidental explosion created a perfect solar system and a planet with everything to support life and life itself, each being with complex organ systems, tissue, and inside every microscopic cell its own structure and DNA more complicated than any code written by man. Of course evolution explains that, the theory that a tiny organism that's existence still isn't explained somehow survived to evolve into a more complex organism and was somehow complex enough to evolve in the first place, then continued to evolve into an organism so complex that it actually would have needed to be since the beginning to survive. So much reason and logic...
You do realize all these changes happened REALLY slowly over millions and millions of year, right?
That's not my point. If you look up evolution on Google images, you usually see some shit with a monkey getting taller and becoming a human, but is the starting organism there not already so complex? Of course, that means that it is only showing the end of the evolution process, right? Well where does it begin? The part of atheism that evolution is supposed to explain is the creation of such complex organisms, but for it to serve that purpose, the original organism would have to be as simple as a rock. How the hell, then, can it be complex enough to evolve, or even survive? I've heard of a fish, I can't remember its name or much about it, but it lives in a poisonous type of underwater plant where it hides from its predators, as it is immune to the poison. If it evolved into that over the course of millions of years, how did it survive? To anyone who has any kind of flexibility, the idea of an omnipotent being shouldn't be too hard to at least consider. The question is though, how does it go from that to religion, a religion that is slowly becoming a minority, in a world that is against what the omnipotent and all powerful being wants? Or as you probably see it, how does that relate to some guy named Jesus standing over the universe and whispering to one planet "Don't masturbate". I've thought about that, and I've come up with an answer. When God created the universe, he wanted it for a purpose, just as we create things with a purpose. Of course, his purposes aren't like ours, what he needs is to be acknowledged. So he created, and he created humans in his image. To me that concept explains it all. When it says in Genesis that he created Adam out of dust and Eve out of Adam's rib, I believe that the process may not have occurred exactly like that, but even if it did, he has created life out of life, he created Adam out of himself, and Eve out of Adam. That is actually more consistent with science than many "scientific" theories that rely on the concept of spontaneous generation, an idea that was disproved by both Francesco Redi and Lewis Pasteur in two separate experiments. So, why then is there evil if God wanted good, why don't we simply obey him? It is because he created us in his image, and that includes free will. While he created animals without free will, he wanted species, humanity, to be more than just an organic robot. Something that would choose to follow him, rather than be forced to. Humans fell to sin then, and our imperfect world is our punishment. He would have thrown us away, but he loved us. It is just as if a human were to create something that did not quite serve the purpose we want it to serve, but we keep it because it is our first, or because it has sentimental value. And because he loved us, he wanted to save us. He could not keep us on Earth because the penalty for sin is death, and so he sent a savior, Jesus, to pay the price for our sins. We still have free will because we can deny Jesus and not accept forgiveness, but through him we can be saved and made perfect again, and enter the home that God created for himself with the purpose of remaining perfect. So in the end, all it takes to believe in Christianity is to simply believe that an omnipotent being can exist, the rest is explained by the one concept of God creating in his own image. The reason for pain, death, sin, and the reason why a world against its all powerful creator can exist, is because God didn't want us to blindly follow him, he wanted us to look the other way first, then turn back to him and follow with our eyes wide open.
Here's another way to look at it. Imagine that some time in the near future, 15 humans are locked up in an extremely large titanium box. Inside there is water running through a small hole in the top, air flowing through, trees, fruit bearing plants, and many animals and things to provide for the animals. Many generations later, the humans are trying to figure out how they got there. They often study where they are, which is very helpful for finding resources and creating things to make their lives easier. But how could that study ever show them how they got there? How could it explain the infinite stretch of space above them called the sky? It simply cannot. In this case, they would literally have to think outside the box. In the same way, our science cannot explain how we got here or what is beyond us. We think we have seen so much, but we have seen so little. What we have seen is one planet, one over infinite, a number that cannot be described as a decimal because it is infinitely small, and that is enough to completely disprove the existence of a God? Many say that Christians do not think enough, and we are not open minded. But I have considered every other idea, every theory I have ever heard, and I have simply chosen to believe this. But atheists use the little bit that humans have seen, something so small that could never explain how we got here, then you mock any other beliefs and attempt to defeat them with more bullshit.
