by joelbear 5 Replies latest jw friends
My favorite song of all time is Imagine by John Lennon.
What if everyone came to believe that there was no God and no afterlife? Would people learn to live peacefully together or would they rip each other apart even faster?
God has clearly be used throughout history to justify this that or the other political ideology or cultural colonization effort. Without this justification could people still be influenced to kill their neighbor for their land?
just thinking hugs
Joel
Evening Joel,
God must be sick and tired of all the pulling and tugging at his white robes. Every tom, dick and harry country, village, town, baseball team, football, political party, tree hugger, you name them have laid claim or associated his blessings on their behalf.
If I were God, I would have been laughing my ass off all these past 5,000 years of man's intellectual rise. Seems like mankind right from the gitgo told God what, where, when and how he was supposed to respond. Since God decided to ignore their puny little requests, some wise-ass joker, like Moses (a real magician) just planted some evidence, I mean who is going to argue wether the bush didn't burn? When he pointed the damn bush out, it was still green. He was good but it still took him so long to carve out those stone tablets, that all his relatives, were packing up camp, ready to leave his ass all alone the wilderness. Shoot man the reason he got so 'god damn' mad about the 'golden image' was because, his relatives 'golden calf' looked so much better than his puny ass, stone cold tablets, with a whole list of, do this and don't do that. Who wouldn't want to worship that 'cow' by comparison. His little tirade on mountain drove him blind, you would think if he just witnessed the Almighty God face to face, he could have asked God to burn the silly 'cow'. But then we know God only deals with some person or a few persons...he never likes to expose himself for all to see and hear directly.
So all being said and done. Take any religon, any group that depends on God support and care, and you will have to take their word for it, because we all know God himself will never own up to it.
Maybe that has been mans problem all along. If he (man) would just stop telling God what to do. God might actually take the time to really let all of us know, what he's been up to.
Only God knows.
Danny
But what if humanity, for whatever reason, came to the conclusion there was no god. What would be the impact on humanity?
Would it be good news or horrible news?
hugs
Joel
I believe that belief in a God or some Supreme force has prevented many people from simply picking up a gun or nuclear head and killing everyone within striking distance. The knowledge that they are accountable to someone with more power than them can be a restraining force.
JB,
No God, or no religion? To me the two are not the same thing. But they do equally share in the failures of mankind here on this earth. I think the world could prosper without religion because in the research I have done so far, religion is man's problem. In my research I have found no God interested enough to take part in human interests beyond creation. Religion mixes with politics and makes a bigger mess, but then some politics are based on religion, and so it goes. Both have made the huge divisions in people race wise, economicly, and country wise, and in many other ways. Power, control and greed rule them both. Since they do provide structure for all of the world, and it is all we have at the present, if they were wiped out without a better structure to take their place I think that the results would be extremely negative for all of us. But you can continue to imagine, and hopefully, along with that, do your own part in making changes that may influence the next generation to do better than we did, because imagining will get you no where.
Lindy
Joel,
Spirituality seems to be inherent in all of mankind, no matter the status or location.
So I think everyone has a built in yearning for, or should I say questing for answer's to the big questions.
Why, how did we get here?
Why, where do we go when we leave?
Is this all there is?
It is these type questions that spawned 'religion' in the first place. So as long as we keep asking ourselves these questions, and God does not DIRECTLY (Yk-we heard already..that he 'soon will') answer them, man will keep his 'god' antenna's up.
Something is built into us, that even the most hardened athiest seems to leave a little crack in the door, as to the possibility of 'Gods' exsistance.
Danny
