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Are you religious Bidoof? I still defend Jigglypuff, I actually have a 2 page incomplete document of evidence for her inclusion. Hitler was a great man, you a fellow Harry Potter fan, "Great things, terrible, but great" (Olivander). Jigglypuff used to be considered cut by most of the community, she had no one to defend her. Hitler is the same. No one defends him. He did great things for his country.

No one commends the man. All the see is the monster who did what was necessary for the greater good. Does that make him a bad person? Perhaps. However, I can actually respect him for all of his actions as opposed to the one he is most known for.

I do not piss of religious people for no reason. This is a Christmas avatar. I love Jesus, he is another hero of mine.

I respect all human beings regardless of their actions. The reason I put on the first controversial picture was because someone was using religion as evidence to essentially call pornography wrong and actresses in the industry "sinful". Stating it is inherently wrong, I believe that it is honest work and they deserve to be respected for what they endure.

At first, I thought you were joking. If you cannot bear the things that I do, I am sorry, we are not friends anymore. I respect what you do, the least you can do is reciprocate. If you are religious and I offended you, good. There is nothing I did to offend you. If you took whatever I said personally, that is all on you. It isn't my obligation to repress my opinions because you don't like them.

Ok, I was just assuming you ha the profile pic to offend people after you said you had yesterday's pic to piss of religious people. And the most positive thing I'll call Hitler is "impressive."

Impressive is good enough; in fact, that is probably the more rational perspective. Jesus (despite my disdain for religion) is indeed a hero of mine in the same way Hitler was. He convinces people of the meta-physical, he brings joy to their lives, he is a symbol of what it means to be Christian (80% of the United States, I believe) and I am somewhat of a nationalist.

America is a wonderful place to live and I am so grateful that I was born in this country. Jesus is a symbol of peace and he alludes to something American. I was once a religious person, when I was in 3rd grade. I was actually converted due to the bigotry of certain Christians. I wanted to believe in ALL religions, and they told me I could only believe in one (which is true).

After intensive investigation, I found that the Jewish religion is the most practical. However, at that point logic pervaded my soul and I came to the realization that there was nothing out there. Science and reasoning dictate that there is nothing, being an advocate of intelligence, it was fairly simple to dismiss the notion (despite my enthusiasm for the subject).

I believe (and in probably quoting someone here) that we all believe in one god, we just believe different things about that god.
While Science says that there is a "practical" answer for everything, there are many holes.
For example, if the Big Bang is true, what created the first matter and gasses that caused it?

I think it is a possibility that whatever God created the world, made everything so it would play out, and there would end up being intelligent humans.
Like an author righting a book so everything plays out like they want in the end.

The only problem with the first notion is that MANY religions; in fact, most religions believe in multiple gods. Polytheism. A myriad of those religions were actually conceived far before most mentions of a monotheistic alternative. So everyone believing in one deity derives from a very modern perspective. So that is fairly inconclusive.

The Big Bang Theory is just the closest we can comprehend currently. There will be more practical applications in the future. I can see where you are coming from; however, it is an arbitrary "law" that something must create something. In this case, many proclaim "god" created the universe. I simply believe that the universe exists because it exists. It is human's who wish to find the "reason" why.

However, I am less on the scientific side of things and more on the philosophical and logical side of things. As my answer entails, I dismiss certain notions like how the universe was conceived as it is irrelevant. I look at the source material (religious doctrine) and find discrepancies in the actual text.

That is obviously not objective, but simple things like a radical change from the Bible to the New Testament is evidence enough. When you look at it, hell is an entirely human created notion. So you actually don't even get punished in the after-life for anything they say you do.

Next, I like to refer to practical application. No one that proclaims that they are Christian actually utilize the religion, they don't even believe half of the stuff in the religion and decide that it is okay to disregard certain things for the modern era. It is truly repugnant that half of the denizens actually call themselves Christian without doing anything that the religion requires.

Essentially, hell doesn't exist (this is objective fact) and no one accurately practices their religion. So if hell did exist, everyone would be going there anyways and their is no reason to commit your life worshiping the invisible pink unicorn. Praying is useless, and going to church is a waste of time. This is if I am to give religion the benefit of the doubt too.

One comment I have, I that the Bible was written a long time ago, and that they barely had any science. Since these people devoted their entire lives to God, they though He made every single thing.
Nows, we have scientific reasons for things, but still believing God made the world entirely.
The Church together is accepting this, so what Christians have to believe is lessened, as some of it is proven to be false.

I can respect that. I still think that it is pointless; in my opinion, if most of if is proven false, all of it is proven false. That might be erroneous to proclaim, but that is what I believe.

My personal opinion is that the parents manipulate their children into believing in God (as the same thing happened to them) and children adamantly believe in such things because it is all they know.