Questions for those who believe in a God?
I find it mind boggling that even intelligent people in the 21st Century, still believe there’s a god, a place called heaven, a devil, and a place called hell. They never require one shred of evidence or proof, and they totally ignore logic, as they cling to that cultural myth.
This illustrates the immense power of cultural brainwashing, which pounds these concepts into people, starting when they are a small child. Very few individuals can step outside of cultural norms and analyze what is happening and realize they were fed a series of lies. In America, the individuals who can step outside the boundaries of cultural norms and utilize proof, evidence, and logic, are known as atheists.
Atheists are often the target of immense hate in American culture. If they aren’t hated, they are often mocked by people who look at them and say, they don’t believe in a god. What’s wrong with them?
I’ve been asking a series of questions about god and religion for decades and never once received what I consider an intelligent reply. Here are some of the questions I always ask and never get an intelligent answer.
- Where did god come from?
- Where does god live?
- Where is heaven?
- Where is hell?
- Do you really believe god can simultaneously monitor the thoughts and actions of almost 8 billion people on the planet?
- Do you really believe your god can understand hundreds of languages?
- If you claim your god has immense power we can’t even imagine, why doesn’t god eliminate the devil?
- Where does the devil live? Does he live under Hawaii, under Japan, under Bermuda? Under Australia? Please tell me.
- If you’re Jewish, what was your all-powerful god doing while the Nazis spent over a decade killing more than 6 million people simply because they were Jewish? How can a Jewish person possibly believe in such a pathetic god, who did nothing to protect those innocent people?
- Every year, hundreds of thousands (possibly more) of innocent women around the world are raped and/or murdered. What is your all-powerful god doing while this is happening?
- If you’re Catholic, how do you feel about those hundreds of priests, over the years, who sexually abused and/or raped children?
BIG TIME QUESTION for those who believe in God, Heaven, and Hell
Background
When growing up in America, you are told as a child that on Christmas Eve, Santa travels the globe, carrying millions of presents on his sled, which he delivers to the people by going down a chimney. Of course, when you get a little older, you LOL when you think that at one time, as a child, you somehow incredibly believed that absurd story. You eventually realize is is nothing more than a cultural myth.
But I find it amazing that the overwhelming majority of people never apply the same kind of logic and thinking when it comes to the existence of a god, a place called heaven, a devil, and a place called hell. Why are those concepts immune to logic and proof for most people?
QUESTIONS for BELIEVERS
In most modern cultures, when someone dies, they are locked in a coffin, and buried 6 feet underground.
- How does a dead person get out of a locked coffin, and then plow his or her way through 6 feet of solid earth?
- When they reach the surface, how does this dead person somehow travel to heaven or hell? Oh by the way, where is heaven and hell?
- Why has nobody, in the history of mankind, ever witnessed any of the above happening at a cemetery?
- When homicide detectives have a case where they must exhume a dead body several years later, the body is still in the casket. I thought that person already traveled to heaven or hell?
I don ‘t know about you, but I think the cultural story of Santa delivering millions of presents on Christmas Eve makes a lot more sense than a dead person getting out of their locked coffin, plowing their way through 6 feet of solid earth, and mystically traveling to a place called heaven or hell. And, nobody can tell you where that is.
One Final Thought
Here’s just one example of what amazes me on almost a daily basis. I regularly watch real life Homicide stories because I’m fascinated by human nature and the level of evil in the world.
I never ceased to be amazed by the reaction of parents whose daughter was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and/or murdered. They pray to their god for the safe return of their daughter.
My question to them is the following. What was your all-mighty god doing while your innocent daughter was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and/or murdered? How can you pray to such a useless, pathetic god?
You can apply the above example in numerous other incidents which happen every day of the year.
Well said and I agree!!! However I do believe in Santa!! In a weak moment I sometimes pray for others—- never for myself !!!
Always enjoy your Blogs!
It’s by faith , read the Bible & it explains answers to
all your questions .
My God is so much more than our feeble minds can comprehend, understand and imagine. The Word of God says that we live by faith, and it quite apparent that you, Bobby, don’t know what that means!!! Please “open your heart and mind “ and ask, truly ask God to reveal Himself to you, and He will, if you are sincere in your motive in asking Him to reveal Himself to you. But you must be honest and sincere in your quest to have God reveal Himself to you. Then and only then will you know the truth!
Stevie, can you answer the questions I asked? One of which is how does a DEAD person escape from a locked coffin, plow through 6 feet of solid earth with no tools, and then magically transport themselves to heaven? Oh by the way, where is heaven?
Ronnie:
The bible was written by men.
What about my questions? For example, how does a DEAD person get out of a locked coffin, plow through 6 feet of solid earth, and then transport themselves to heaven or hell? How could anyone possibly believe this mumbo jumbo?
When a body is exhumed several years after a burial, the body is still in the coffin.
And where is heaven or hell?
I grew up in Brownsville Brooklyn in East NewYork in a poor neighborhood surrounded by empty lots and buildings that were burned out due to drug activity. I had to pass these dilapidated hideous places every day when I walked to school. Often times I would run pass the buildings for fear that someone would jump out and grab me. I was just in elementary school at the time. My former teacher, Robert Tishkevich aka Mr. T.
can attest to how bad these neighborhoods looked.
Religion was one of the things that gave the residents in my neighborhood hope for a better life.
Believing that a higher power will supply your needs and that God is preparing a better place for us in heaven made people feel like their current situation wasnt so bad after all, besides look at the reward in the end.
There were just as many churches in and around my neighborhood as there were grocery stores and liquor stores so going to church, singing on the choir and attending Sunday School wasn’t anything unusual. It gave us a feeling of purpose, belonging, being a part of something good. Spreading hope to the hopeless.
I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior at the age of eleven in a Pentecostal church. I became an ordained missionary at sixteen and married a preacher at eighteen then later divorced him because he turned out to be “the devil in disguise”. Anyways, I’ve lived my life trying to be a follower of the teachings of Christ.
“Love your neighbor as you love yourself” right?
I think even if I never got into religion, I would’ve still been the kind of person that gave hope to others because that’s who I am at my core.
Now at 61 years old I’m asking questions about God and the Bible and I’m almost afraid to ask because it feels like I’m betraying the commitment that I made many years ago but
I dont believe everything that is Witten in the Bible. I don’t believe Noah built an Ark and lived to be over 900 years old.
When I ask other Christians about Noah’s age they’ll say, nine hundred years was calculated differently back then so if 900 years is really supposed to be 90 years old then why not just say he was 90 years old?
When I ask why would God allow people of color to be enslaved for over 400 years, and why would God allow innocent people to lose their life to violence, religious people always say God gives us free will, and then they’ll say, we were all born in sin and shapened in iniquity”.
I’m still trying to figure this out and trying to accept that some of my beliefs may not be true.
Pray for me!
My former student has become a fantastic woman. I am so proud of her!
However, one of the things I tried to teach her was the importance of research, facts, proof, evidence, and science. All I am asking is that instead of blindly accepting the mythology of religious concepts, which were pounded into all us of since the time we were 2 years old, please apply the criteria described above.
I believe, if one seriously applies the laws of science, proof, and evidence to religious concepts, that will hopefully bring new, eye opening insights into their lives. As I pointed out in in my article, how in the world could anyone believe the following. A DEAD person, locked in a coffin, buried 6 feet underground, will somehow escape from the locked coffin, burrow their way up through 6 feet of solid earth without any tools, and then incredibly travel to a place called heaven or hell.
I think the story of Santa delivering millions of presents on a sled with reindeer makes more sense.
It is difficult to accept that there’s a possibility that what you’ve been taught all your life has been a lie, especially when its so personal. I do believe in science and I accept the evidence and the fact findings but I’ll always believe theres something greater and spiritual that we don’t see and that’s not being delusional, that just my faith.
While on this topic, where does the energy go?
E = mc2