Religion (Christ)

Intro: How I became “atheist” To start my rebuttal, I will reveal how I assumed the position of atheist. My parents are agnostic but made sure not to impose any religious favor in any way (even atheist or agnostic.) They never mentioned religion at all and were very nonchalant about the subject. It wasn’t until I was in 3rd grade that I actually learned that there was such thing as religion. When I learned of where people went on Sundays through my friends I was curious and, in 5th grade I started reading the bible. It was kind of boring since I was so young so I will admit that I skimmed some and do not remember most of it and I am in the process of rereading it on my nook now. Do not believe that I am not mature enough to report on this topic because I know a lot about the subject through researching on the computer so the only component I lack is completely reading the entire bible. But as I will mention shortly how the bible explained life was impossible and could not possibly happen (that’s what I meant by, "I read the Bible and it did not seem right." I hope that answers your question and I do not know which specific passages were strange since I don’t remember everything am in the process of rereading it.) so as I was curious I wanted to know how the world was actually created and learned of the big bang and the evolution; in which the evolution they have bones showing the ape slowly evolve into the human for survival means as we have seen every other species on earth do to survive which with significant evidence, is proven (instead of a god suddenly deciding to make the world.) It is truly a beautiful thing the evolution of life and a spectacular feat by Mother Nature in every life form evolving to survive and creating the eye and such beautiful creations. But back to the topic, you said in your argument that “Simply put, something cannot come from nothing.” And that the big bang can’t happen. Well to defend this theory is hard since I am no scientist and I do know much about the big bang but I do know that Stephen Hawking is, since he is regarded as the most intelligent man alive and the Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology. As he knows more on the topic than any other person including you and me I would trust his thoughts. “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.” Stephen Hawking. If you are still conflicted with this theory which I understand you would I would suggest researching it deeply for life is a confusing thing. “The beauty of science is that it does not claim to know the answers before it asks the questions. There is nothing wrong with not knowing. It means we have more to learn, and as I have said before, ignorance bothers me far less than the illusion of knowledge.” Lawrence Krauss 1. How religions are impossible and aren’t real In this paragraph I am trying to make clear, the points in how the bible and other religions do not align with physical reality and as such, simply can’t happen. So as the bible says that a talking evil snake can happen, but it obviously can’t because of their vocal cords, so that part of the bible is a lie. That is what I referenced in my first argument as of “myths and magic.” I should have used different vocabulary and understand how that was unclear and apologize for that. I believe this answers your question, “what are the ‘plain facts’ that you're referring to?” The plain facts that I was referring to are the facts of life that are contradicted in religion and in the bible and that I thought it strange that people still follow religion even though the facts and true things directly contradict what they believe. “You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?” by Mark Twain. Now I understand that this quote from one of my favorite authors is very rude and I apologize for that, but I believe that it encompasses what my overall message for this section was; that the stories in religion directly contradict what actually in reality happens, and therefore religion is impossible. 2. Atheism Is Based Off of Facts and Real Things Since I mentioned this earlier I will not spend too much time on this topic. I hope this will help reinforce my answer to your question of my sudden atheism. Since it did not make theoretical sense that an “invisible man in the sky” who doesn’t say who created him, is an all knowing omniscient being that we worship so that we are granted an eternal after-life sleeping in clouds with angels and luxury. I know this seems harsh but that is how I see it. This is fake and is designed to comfort people and answer the hard questions but at least for me 3. Then Why Is Religion Still Around But I do realize that it saves many people from depression and turns their life around and does such good things for everyone and I see that religion can be a good thing. But then the religion that comforts them is a lie designed to explain how the world worked when we didn’t know, but now we know so why do we keep the religion. We have already satisfied the human instinct to know with the real facts not all knowing gods. I believe that this tough question is answered by this is that in the bible it always says to have faith. This phrase closes the eyes of all its worshippers and almost makes it impossible to separate them from their religion. If you have read the novel 1984 by George Orwell and I recommend it. It is almost impossible to separate the citizens from Ingsoc because it brainwashes them into not trusting anyone else and that Big Brother is always right. Therefore it is impossible to change the citizens into from worshipping Big Brother or God because they both tell their worshippers to never listen to anyone else and to put it in faith.”People don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” Friedrich Nietzsche.If the “put it in faith” part wasn’t in the bible, then when people heard reason and facts they would say “Oh, I get it now, I understand how things really are.” But they can’t because they have to “put it in faith” and everything else is wrong according to God, or Big Brother, or any other totalitarianism leader. “I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than closed by belief” Gerry Spence. There is a great picture that I saw on Pinterest that perfectly shows what I am trying to say, search this please: http://www.pinterest.com.... Where the leader is god and the followers are his worshippers only listening to him and closed off form the world and reason. That is my theory on why these religions are still around. 4. How It Would Help the World It would help the world a lot if we were not limited by religion, “I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine. But don't make your kids do it because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future." Bill Nye. If all of the millions of churches that are used to worship a god that has been proven to not exist were given to the homeless and the poor and the 3 billion people suffering in poverty, the world would be a much better place. We are spending so much money on gold ceilings and holy water while people in Africa are starving to death. And this God that we are doing this for has been proven not to exist. Just think about that. Conclusion I have so much more to say about this subject but I feel like this is getting very long and I have a life to get to and stupid math homework during Thanksgiving. Anyways, remember to check that picture on Pinterest and research the Big Bang. Happy Thanksgiving!!!