Debate: is god true?
Side: yes, god is true

Thumbs and dental sets aid the self. Aside from early age, we are fully capable of fending for ourselves. Yes, we are social beings, but so are many other animals. Do they have morals? Have you seen a single other animal besides humans that has morals? If it is such an evolutionary advantage, why isn't it more common? And, as these morals tell us to value other beings above the self, wouldn't the beings with these morals die out, leaving the amoral to dominate?Irreducable complexity and Freud's ideas are theoretical because they have not yet been observed. Many saints have worked miracles, and who was Jesus, if not the Messiah? Why would anyone follow a fake? These were religious people following him. We believe that Jesus will come a second time, but, in the case of most Christians, if some poor carpenter came up and said, "Hi, I'm Jesus Christ, and this is the Second Coming," guess what? They'd say, "Heh, yeah right. No, I'm not giving you a donation." And they would close the door in his face. So why did so many Jews believe, and Gentiles who didn't even believe in the prophecy in the first place? How do you explain the founding of my religion, and it's massive following? This is not a theory, because people of 2000 years ago saw it with they're own eyes. They didn't say, "Theoretically, he's the Son of God." They said, "Oh my gosh! It's the Messiah!"It's not just Jesus. Over the two thousand years, so many miracles have occurred. When you research, however, you have to be careful of lies. We are not gullible. We do not believe everything that people say we believe.About parents, it may well be a reaction to need. But there comes a time when we no longer need them, and we know we no longer need them, long before we actually leave. And, even after we leave, we are still bonded. Yes, there is love, and we do not want to lose it. But saying that guilt is a reminder developed in such a way that you describe seems to me silly, be it said by you or Freud. Guilt is an emotion, and we very definitely recognize it as such. We can no more develop guilt by our own recognition of what is bad for us than we can develop love or sadness. If guilt is there, it is there from the beginning of our life. If it is not, then it never has been. There is no developing of it, only the development of being able to feel it more clearly.About the stories, as you have written sci-fi, fantasy, and horror, you would know all of the work that goes into developing worlds and characters. When you explain how something works, you cannot logically defy your explanation. As well, it is difficult to change such things once they have become integrated in the story, as changing one small thing changes many surrounding things, and the original still exists in the mind, although it can develop over time. When you make a character, it is hard to make that character say or do something that they would never actually do or say. For example, you might be trying to make two characters fall in love, but it is extremely difficult to make it happen without making one or both of them go out of character. When I write, I have a vague idea of what is going to happen, but I do not control my stories. I control the world and the faceless masses. I control the government, to some extent. But I cannot induce any strong control over characters, I can simply give them gentle pushes. For me, it is as though I am watching the story unfold before me. It does not feel that I am making the things in the story happen. As I re-read this, it appears slightly different from what I actually mean, sorry, perhaps I can be clearer.I am someone who over-thinks everything. I am very shy and easily embarrassed. When I enter a conversation, I often hear an opportunity to say something, but I must first run it through my mind, then check it and double-check it, thinking of what others might think. By the time I decide to speak, it's too late. I hate the way I am, but this is what I always revert to when I try to change myself.When I first began writing, I was afraid that all of my characters would be like this. I was very young at the time, and had never been able to understand my classmates, who all seemed to me exceedingly immature. However, not a single one of my characters has turned out like me, and I cannot make them be like me.It is me speaking behind the characters. I am playing every side of everything. However, I cannot make a character get out of character. I am sure you can understand this, as your characters are probably just as alive as mine.When you write, you control every aspect of the world in your stories. You can make anything happen, you are all-powerful. However, your characters have free will. You are fully capable of changing the words, making them do anything, but then they would no longer be who they are and there would be no point, as the heart of any story lies in the characters. I'm sure you know this.You are also aware of what your characters are going to do, and where it will lead them, regardless of how well you can control them, or what you may want them to do.If you have ever killed a character, you know just how difficult it is. At times I have not been able to write after killing a character, so it is something I generally avoid. Sadly, I make better antagonists than protagonists, so it is extremely difficult to fulfill stories in which I must somehow defeat, killing them or no, my strongest characters.The first story I ever wrote, I created when I was eight years old. It wasn't so much a book as a series of scenarios with the first character I ever made (an antagonist, no surprise) and slowly characters began to develop around him. I changed his history and his reasoning for doing evil many times, but the character and name remained the same. When I was about nine years old, I was getting frustrated because I could not make any of my protagonists defeat him, as I made him too thoroughly. He wasn't the bad guy you see when writers just need some random person to be bad so that they have some action. Those are tacky. I made him almost real, not like anyone I had ever known, but with strong emotions and reasoning for his doings and complex plots. At least, as close to that as a child of that age can make. He was smart, so he wouldn't fall victim to any of the traps or plans my protagonists laid. I had not once written an ending.Then I got a great idea (I thought it was great at the time, you must remember I was nine). My protagonists couldn't defeat him because I made him too strong and too clever. But I could put myself into the story, and, as the author of the story, I would be all powerful.The character me was not the real me, because she was a character, just like all of the others. She could not be the real me as the real me couldn't possibly exist in my own story. However, there was also no way she could not be me, as I am the voice behind her, and I made her character to be just like me. Or rather, the me without the hesitation and over-thinking of things. It truly was as though i was actually amidst the characters.But what is a story in which the antagonist just vanishes before he does anything? That's not a story, that's an event. If I made myself some all-powerful destroyer of evil, then what could the protagonists do? Perhaps they would even try to destroy me, having no threat besides this all-powerful person who controls them. And they would fail, and I would destroy them, and my imaginary world would be gone.So my character me did not fight directly. I tried to turn my antagonist into a good person, and my protagonists continued to fight and suffer, then learned and tried to help me. They became better people themselves in this, as they were no longer out for blood. They saw the good hidden beneath the bad, and did their best to bring it out. When my antagonist tried to destroy them, I would stop him, but I would not hurt him. He was my precious creation.This is not a perfect analogy, but God is like a writer. We are his characters. He knows what we will do, and he can nudge us in a certain direction, but He will not force our decisions, as we are his precious creations and he would not destroy us. He can shape our characters into better people through events of the world around us, and can use these events as well to forge a path for us, but He will not force us down it, even if He is aware that we will not choose this path, just as, sometimes, a writer gives a character an opportunity that he/she knows the character will not take. Perhaps this will teach them, down the line, to make better choices.I said it was not a perfect analogy, and this is for multiple reasons, the most important being that God did not create evil. He created free will, and free will is not truly free will unless the one bearing it is equally free to do good and to do evil. Some choose evil, and thus Satan is the Fallen Angel. No one chooses evil for the sake of evil, though. Everyone pursues good, but some pursue it for the wrong reasons or in the wrong way. The end does not justify the means. someone may be trying to save a child's life, and perhaps there is a cure that would kill ten others. The end is saving a life, that is good. But the means is murdering ten people, and that is evil. Power itself is not evil, it is the corruption and the means to obtain power that are evil. Power is so easily abused. These are but a few examples.God saw that there was evil in His world, and He gradually gave more and more help to those that still believed in Him as conditions grew worse. He freed the Hebrews from Egypt, and thus came the Israelites, later the Jews. However, when his intervention was becoming greater and greater, He decided to put Himself in His world. (This is another place where the analogy isn't quite right. God was technically already in the world, simply not in flesh and blood).However, He did not want to simply be an all-powerful person who banishes all evil with a wave of His hand, He could already do that. That was not the point. The point was to make us, the people of His world, strong enough to face the evil. To let us defeat evil.Also, there is the fact of Original Sin. It probably wasn't some apple, that story is just a story to illustrate a point. Perhaps it was an apple, we have no way of knowing. But the fact is, God gave us the Moral Law. We disobey this Moral Law every day. This is known as sin. Because we do this now, and we have done it before, and we know that we have not existed for all eternity, there logically must have been a first sin. Whatever this first sin was, it is Original Sin, and we repeat versions of it every day. As sinners, we have to prove ourselves to be good enough in this world.God made Mary to not inherit this Original Sin, and she was free of sin her entire life. God sent the angel Gabriel to her, and she gave her permission to be the Virgin Mother of God. And so God came to her, and she gave birth to Jesus. Jesus is God made flesh. He is the very same God who created the world, and he is completely God. However, he is also completely human, as he is flesh and blood, born of Mary. He experienced anger, pain, sadness, joy, and so many other human things. He did not come in shining armor to banish the world of evil. He came as a poor carpenter to teach the world how to be saved, allowing all of the people, God's precious creations, His characters, to each play their part in the story. He sacrificed Himself, He who is without sin, to save all of us sinners, to teach us how to get to heaven. And to get there, we must follow Him. He suffered as only a human would, but if He were not God it would be meaningless. If it were meaningless, he would not have been so stubborn.If you were lying, for whatever reason, making up a religion, how long would you hold onto that lie? Would you not tell the truth, even when you only had to say that you lied to free yourself from intense torture and crucifixion? There have been scientists who were certain that they spoke the truth who lied to save their lives from instant, painless death, when they had received no torture. So why would a man who claimed to be the Son of God not say he was lying through all that he suffered, unless He was telling the truth?