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<blockquote data-quote="NJack2AF" data-source="post: 2126693" data-attributes="member: 558031">I&#039;m not gonna waste hours of my life reading through this but I figured I would add to it a bit... with MY view on religion! Yay!I believe in a higher being, I believe in Jesus Christ. BUT the way I see it, the bible is a book that has been around for THOUSANDS of years, and changed time and time again and translated and yada yada yada, and IMO taking it literally is retarded. Now I do think there are some messages and stories in there that are relevant, and maybe at some point in time, there was a messenger from &quot;god&quot; that used the stories in there to &quot;show people the way&quot; in a time when they probably couldn&#039;t comprehend most of what he meant so he put things into words and stories that they would understand. I don&#039;t go to church much, and consider myself a non-denominational christian. I do believe in god and jesus and try to be a good person and live a good life. I don&#039;t know who or what &quot;god&quot; is, and I don&#039;t think that &quot;he&quot; can hold my not believing every word of a book that has been put together by power hungry people and listening to what power hungry people have said over thousands of years against me in the end. If I am a good person and live a good life and help others, there is absolutely no reason that I should not get into &quot;heaven&quot; whatever it may be. And if I don&#039;t because of that then I don&#039;t want to because the reasons for getting in don&#039;t make any **** sense. Saying that we should live for god is bs, that makes him human, why would god want us to live for him if he is all powerful? I have had religious awakenings and I believe in god, but I don&#039;t believe the bible. O BTW it seems like to me that if you were to combine all religions in the world today and make a variation/compilation of them you would probably have it about right. The main reason I believe in god is that we had to have come from somewhere, and if we came from a &quot;big bang&quot; than why the hell is it so hard to believe that there is a god?Edit: Well I guess I wasted like 5 or 10 mins anyways... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NJack2AF, post: 2126693, member: 558031"] I'm not gonna waste hours of my life reading through this but I figured I would add to it a bit... with MY view on religion! Yay! I believe in a higher being, I believe in Jesus Christ. BUT the way I see it, the bible is a book that has been around for THOUSANDS of years, and changed time and time again and translated and yada yada yada, and IMO taking it literally is retarded. Now I do think there are some messages and stories in there that are relevant, and maybe at some point in time, there was a messenger from "god" that used the stories in there to "show people the way" in a time when they probably couldn't comprehend most of what he meant so he put things into words and stories that they would understand. I don't go to church much, and consider myself a non-denominational christian. I do believe in god and jesus and try to be a good person and live a good life. I don't know who or what "god" is, and I don't think that "he" can hold my not believing every word of a book that has been put together by power hungry people and listening to what power hungry people have said over thousands of years against me in the end. If I am a good person and live a good life and help others, there is absolutely no reason that I should not get into "heaven" whatever it may be. And if I don't because of that then I don't want to because the reasons for getting in don't make any **** sense. Saying that we should live for god is bs, that makes him human, why would god want us to live for him if he is all powerful? I have had religious awakenings and I believe in god, but I don't believe the bible. O BTW it seems like to me that if you were to combine all religions in the world today and make a variation/compilation of them you would probably have it about right. The main reason I believe in god is that we had to have come from somewhere, and if we came from a "big bang" than why the hell is it so hard to believe that there is a god? Edit: Well I guess I wasted like 5 or 10 mins anyways... [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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