I'm pretty much have the same thoughts as Weiser. Science now explains what religions used to explain by saying its 'Gods work'. If there is any religion I would subscribe to is self belief. After reading the 'God Delusion' I ended any possibility of beliving in a 'God'.
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What about Moses? What kind of bush was actually burning when Moses heard the voice of God? In today's world, he would have been sent to a Mental Health Care Facility and told that the voice he heard was his imagination.
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And the God of the old testemant and most of his followers would have been put in Prison and in some countries the electric chair or the hangmans noose!!
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I believe that the fire and brimstone, humans going to Hell for their sins was created by the Church (and our government) in order to scare us all into being obedient.
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I think a very large line has to be drawn between personal faith and organised religion, which I belive is the greatest evil humans have ever created. I have no issue with people beliving in God, Gods or some supernatural force (just don't expect me to buy into it!!) but I do have a massive issue with organised institutions proffessing to be doing Gods will and instructing others to do there own brand of Gods will, which until very recently involved allot of killing, prejudice and generally not very nice behavior towards those who didn't belive or didn't belive in quite the same way. I think thats a different discussion though.