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What makes you believe or disbelieve in the existence of God?
Socorro70
The answer for me is very long so I will sum up as best I can why I disbelieve in the existence of God.
1. The roman catholic church (which all Christianity is based off) is nothing more then the largest and richest multinational corporation in the world. Yes, the catholic church has more money then Bill Gates, and does less good with it then Gates does.
2. No religion is in any way original. Every modern religion was built by taking pieces of older religions and hap hazardly throwing them together. (christianity's virgin birth, son of god, jonah eaten by a whale, all were found in earlier relgions and incorporated in the early days of christianity)
3. If you actually read any religious text from cover to cover, word for word, there are a lot of disturbing things included. In The Bible for instance, God lays down the "laws of slavery" including that only a jew may ever be freed from such bondage. Or in another section God tells his followers to lay in wait beside a rode while the neighboring village is holding a festival to waylay women on their way there and "take them as wives" because there are not enough women for all the men.
4. The simple problem of omnipotence. If god can do "ANYTHING" then can he create a rock so heavy that even he cannot lift it? If he can, then he's not omnipotent because there is a limit on how much he can lift, and if he cannot, he's not omnipotent because there is a limit on how much he can lift.
I'll stop here before I write a whole book. I've barely touched on the detail involved in each of these points, but they are the biggest points that drive me away from religion.
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