The Argument

Religion and God: never had a good discussion with a Christian on that subject. The few i've had have left me so dazed that i seldon will let myself be drawn into them; God forbid it turn into an argument.

I cannot argue with a Christian because they always have that wild card that trumps everything else: God can do anything, anything at all, think of anything--think the impossible--God can do it. Yes, with God everything is possible, and it is not for us to even question why God did the things he did that is written about in the bible.

What i find ironic is that it is precicely that arguement--the Almighty's power--that is the source of my strongest conviction against believing in His existance.
God the Almighty, according to the bible, created perfection in Adam and Eve; then they did the worst thing they could possibly do: sin. It is the fault of an angel
--another of God's creations--gone bad. Satan the angel, goes for the weakest link, the woman, Eve, knowing she would be the easy target and that she would bring Adam down with her. This story is so obviously written by a guy, a married guy.

Wild card number two: free will. The power to make our decisions independent of our maker and defy, if  need be. You'd think God would have been one step ahead of Satan, and made people that were perfect without that innocence that Satan took advantage of. How could a perfect being go bad? Satan knew A&E had free will and tricked Eve, knowing that women will always want more and can never pass up an opportunity to exercise their free will.

Free will is God's kryptonite because it takes away God's power to control us.
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of the comic book superhero,
Superman, had to deal with the same problem; they created a nearly indestructable hero, how do you create suspense there? They had to give the bad guy a weapon, kryptonite. The writers of the bible cleverly gave Satan free will to work with.

It seems that the writers of the bible had their own ideas as to the powers of a
deity. One could argue deism, but to have created a universe, nay, multiple universi, only to abandon them and their living inhabitants, a bit whimsical for
a God, it seems to me.

Galileo Galilei went against church teaching and supported heliocentrisim, which was proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus in 1543, which states that earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around. The church placed Galileo under house arrest for herecy; Copernicus died before the church could get a hold of him. But it is nice to think that earth and mankind is the center of the universe.

I don't know about today, but back then the church punished you for thinking outside the box; unfourtunately, they had that power then. I know that in my father's religion we were strongly discouraged from reading anything but their own publishings, and they published tons of books, magazines, and tracts.

According to my logic, if i am confident in my convictions, in my religion, then i want you to read, investigate, and question all you want. Think outside the box, and try to prove me wrong. Go ahead, do my job; you will come back more convinced that i am right than if i had been quoting chapter and verse to you.

In my father's religion, the arguement against exploring is that anything that they do not publish is heavily tainted by....you guessed it, Satan.