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Lord Nikon · 18-11-2007, 11:08

Throughout history people have tried to come up with explanations for everything they perceive around them. If they encountered inclement weather or regularly lost ships at sea then they would label the maps "Here be dragons". The thing is, how do we explain our own existance? This is something we can't easily do, we can trace the origins of homo sapiens back, but we can't easily come up with a reason WHY we came into being, so we created an omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent being who would create us.

This also made things easier for controlling the masses.. "do this, this and this and you will be rewarded in the afterlife" was an absolutely EXCELLENT idea, you get control of people, you don't have to give them ANYTHING apart from a few words, they will give you money in the belief they will be rewarded when they die, and the best part? regardless of any reward or not, they won't be back to complain or call you a liar...

Of course, there MAY be a God, who may fall into the categories of omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, but 2 points, Everything has a beginning and an end, infinity is only a theoretical concept as once you try to quantify it, you can add to it, meaning it wasn't infinite.... so even God had an origin point... Second, With man being in the equation throughout time, writing down the relevent religious works, reading them to the masses, translating them etc, and with man being fallible and corruptible, how do we know that what we see now as religious works bear even the slightest resemblance to what actually transpired except in the most general terms, over 2000 years ago at it's most recent?

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Lord Nikon Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: NW UK Posts: 3,546	Re: Religious scholars mull Flying Spaghetti Monster Throughout history people have tried to come up with explanations for everything they perceive around them. If they encountered inclement weather or regularly lost ships at sea then they would label the maps "Here be dragons". The thing is, how do we explain our own existance? This is something we can't easily do, we can trace the origins of homo sapiens back, but we can't easily come up with a reason WHY we came into being, so we created an omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent being who would create us. This also made things easier for controlling the masses.. "do this, this and this and you will be rewarded in the afterlife" was an absolutely EXCELLENT idea, you get control of people, you don't have to give them ANYTHING apart from a few words, they will give you money in the belief they will be rewarded when they die, and the best part? regardless of any reward or not, they won't be back to complain or call you a liar... Of course, there MAY be a God, who may fall into the categories of omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, but 2 points, Everything has a beginning and an end, infinity is only a theoretical concept as once you try to quantify it, you can add to it, meaning it wasn't infinite.... so even God had an origin point... Second, With man being in the equation throughout time, writing down the relevent religious works, reading them to the masses, translating them etc, and with man being fallible and corruptible, how do we know that what we see now as religious works bear even the slightest resemblance to what actually transpired except in the most general terms, over 2000 years ago at it's most recent?