God does not exist,people believing in god or in eny supernatural exsistence are wasting they time.By doing so they made and make some persons to take advantage of they ignorance or "existence for ever in heaven"..The main three religions MONOTHEISM is based on Egyption Pharaoh Akhenaten which inherited the idea from his mother Tiya,but did nost last.After approximately 7-8 hundreds years "5-6 hundred years bce," was adopted by a semitic nomadic people " HEBREWS" by making Egyptian monotheism theirs one god.After was followed by christianity and last by islam.All three religions secured power and wealth by taking advantage of timid and ignorance of the people at the time.They converted the people by willing and by force for centurys.In my view should be only one "CREED,HUMANITY AND NATURE"to exist in peace and harmony.not to become extinct in less then half of the time that this religions exit.
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@cosmic-energy4 saidI believe in animal reincarnation; 59 wolves were reincarnated at the end of June this year and I’m the only one who noticed.
God does not exist,people believing in god or in eny supernatural exsistence are wasting they time.
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@cosmic-energy4 saidNot heard of that one.
@diver; You probably watched the movie about the dog that got reincarnated several times?.
@cosmic-energy4 saidOf course God 'exists'--in the same sort of way that "there really is a Santa Claus, Virginia," as a concept, though not as a Being with ontological status independent of whatever people think about it. 'God' is the answer people like @KellyJay need to the question 'where did everything come from?' because they do not like the answer 'it's turtles all the way down.'
God does not exist,people believing in god or in eny supernatural exsistence are wasting they time.By doing so they made and make some persons to take advantage of they ignorance or "existence for ever in heaven"..The main three religions MONOTHEISM is based on Egyption Pharaoh Akhenaten which inherited the idea from his mother Tiya,but did nost last.After approximatel ...[text shortened]... n peace and harmony.not to become extinct in less then half of the time that this religions exit.
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I personally don't think it matters in the least where everything came from--indeed, I think it is a logically malformed nonsense question, so I don't need @KellyJay's purported answer to it.
People like @KellyJay also need a God to underpin morality and tell them not to kill people. I personally think that if there ever was a tribe which permitted indiscriminate killing, thieving, lying, bearing false witness, and dishonoring one's parents, it did not survive long enough to pass on its faulty genes, and therefore that most civilized people do not need a God to tell them not to kill people, not to tell lies, not to steal other people's donkeys or wives, and so on. It's the under-evolved ones, the troglodyte-sociopaths (like Donald Trump), who pose a problem for the rest of society.
Still, if some people believe that belief in God is all that keeps them from running loose in the streets with machetes hacking people to death (as happened in Rwanda a while ago), then I heartily invite such people to believe that God is a real Being with ontological status independent of whatever people believe about it who will send them to a literal lake of fire after they die, forever and ever, if they don't toe the line in this life.
@diver saidI know most of the Christian community shy away from this concept of reincarnation but it is clearly in the Bible. Jesus mentioned that Elijah must come back .. from the dead. Also in Ezekiel 37, the Valley of Dry Bones story, God explained it to Exekiel, saying that the bones represent dead Jews, who He will bring back to life and make them return to Palestine to live. To drive the point home God even said that David will rule over the Jews in the end.
I believe in animal reincarnation; 59 wolves were reincarnated at the end of June this year and I’m the only one who noticed.
@moonbus saidAll of mankind have in their conscience, the knowledge of good and evil. No need for God to tell anyone what is right and wrong.
Of course God 'exists'--in the same sort of way that "there really is a Santa Claus, Virginia," as a concept, though not as a Being with ontological status independent of whatever people think about it. 'God' is the answer people like @KellyJay need to the question 'where did everything come from?' because they do not like the answer 'it's turtles all the way down.'
...[text shortened]... to a literal lake of fire after they die, forever and ever, if they don't toe the line in this life.
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@moonbus saidKnowing basic morals is hardwired into all mankind.
Well, civilized people anyway. People close to Trump have said he has no moral principles, and I believe them. He certainly acts like he has none.
How one actually behaves is a function of many things.
Some ignore their conscience.
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@cosmic-energy4 saidOk thanks, but I doubt I’ll be viewing those.
@diver; Two movie with the titles of 'A DOG'S PURPOSE" (2017) and "A DOG PURPOSE 2" 2025 movie.
@Rajk999 said'Hardwired' in the sense that evolution positively selected for specimens which cooperated within and productively supported the tribe, whereas thorough-going egotists were ostracized and did not reproduce as effectively. There is no invisible organ called 'the will' or 'conscience'--these are merely grammatical fictions, figures of speech.
Knowing basic morals is hardwired into all mankind.
How one actually behaves is a function of many things.
Some ignore their conscience.
@moonbus saidWhat a coward you are, invoking my name in a thread I’m not in and telling everyone what I think and why, but when you are talking to me, you leave with your tail between your legs, crying about everything except the topic under discussion.
Of course God 'exists'--in the same sort of way that "there really is a Santa Claus, Virginia," as a concept, though not as a Being with ontological status independent of whatever people think about it. 'God' is the answer people like @KellyJay need to the question 'where did everything come from?' because they do not like the answer 'it's turtles all the way down.'
...[text shortened]... to a literal lake of fire after they die, forever and ever, if they don't toe the line in this life.