if u start a neu work .............so pray god..............

What if god doesn't exist?

Me pray,Thank God for Friday

You are very fortunate to be born in India
it is the easiest place to be God conscious
because it has so many pious souls there.
Yes it is so good to pray every day and during
all changes in our lives. Keeping God(as we know Him)
with us at every moment is a assurance that all will always be
fine and OK in any situations.

If God doesn't exist...than you can take your
powers and make the impossibles happen!..if God
doesn't exist you can ask yourself questions and
find all answers within yourself...if God doesn't exist
your life has little meaning, no direction...
at the time of death when you leave your body
you have to come back here again...until you get
the picture... that there IS a God and that you are
his servant...and not the servant of your own self(senses).

gods!

all world r god so see the god..............

Amen!!! prayer is a powerful tool. You can have ANYTHING you ever wanted through prayer, God is great and loves us so much it's unbelievable.

Delusional people in this world.

Enjoy life now, cause there is NO afterlife.

Not for some no there won't be. Do you wish to have an afterlife or to cease to exist?

When I die, that is it. No I do not want afterlife. I want to sleep forever.

GOD is GREAT....................sorry for those LOST souls that don't have GOD in they're life!

And then that's what you'll receive. Mind if i ask why you wouldn't want to continue on with having great time and joy with your loved ones? Family and friends? Would ask if you'd miss them, but guess you couldn't if you didn't exist anymore, but don't you think they will miss you?

I don't care to argue my beliefs. I'm atheist and my eyes are wide open and clear. I do not need something in my life to define me. Your God is not what I would want to worship anyhow. I live my life being good to others no matter what. I do not force my beliefs on anyone and respect the same in return. That is all.

We don't or well aren't suppose to force our beliefs on others either. I know some fail in this, and so do some atheists. But nevertheless believing in God is not to be forced upon anyone. If it is the one that it's being forced on isn't a sincere belief, it's just a belief under direst. And that is not what it's about.

yes, i'm sure the millions of people living on the streets of india find this quite comforting, as i'm sure so do the thousands of women who get gang raped by guerrilla soldiers two or three times a year in darfur and the congo. let's not forget the millions and millions of children growing up in refugee camps all over the world...."all will always be fine"....really?

Oh, this is such a beautiful thread!

I'm assuming there may be people contributing to this thread from more than one religion (and maybe a few more just observing from the side-lines). I find it interesting because I spent more than 20 years studying the bible, Christianity, God, Jesus, you name it. I guess that really only makes me qualified to talk about Christianity, but there are some common threads that run through many world religions, and I don't mean love, peace, etc.

Around the time that Jesus was nailed to a cross and died, there were many religions in the world. I guess not much has changed, but many of the religious groups 'died out'. Basically, they lost battles, and when you lose battles, your God isn't as good as the God of the people who defeated you. When the Babylonians were defeated, their Gods fell from favour, as did the Roman and Greek Gods when these civilisations were defeated and fell into disarray.

So, about 500 years after Jesus' death, the ruler of Constantinople (modern day Istanbul) decides he needs to cement his people together under one religion. Despite being a confirmed pagan until the very end, he chose to support and propagate the Christian religion, even though he didn't believe it himself. It was a convenient political tool to control the people and motivate them. By the way, this ruler (I forget his name, as if that makes any difference anyway) also got all the books of the bible together. Until then, what we know as the bible had been a collection of many independent books. This ruler decided which books fitted in with his political views, and which did not. The ones he didn't like, were simply discarded and not publicised, published, and put forward as the views of the state/church so faded away. So, we were left with what we'd call the basis of the bible we have today.

Well, that was fine as far as it goes, but there was still one little fly in the ointment. The gospels (and some still exist) finished with the death of Jesus on the cross and him being put in a tomb. Not the best end to a story, and not a good way to get people to believe in heaven, etc. So, some people in the church got together and wrote a new ending: the rolling away of the stone, the empty tomb, the meeting of the gardener and Mary in the garden (supposedly Jesus risen again) and to top it all, Jesus appearing to Doubting Thomas and the Transfiguration where Jesus is taken up into heaven. All made up 500 years after the facts to make a more convenient end to the story.

Ah, and Christianity isn't the only religion where this has happened. Mohammed was, from what I can remember an almost forgotten, insignificant character in Middle Eastern culture when a general decided that his writings would inspire his troops to great things on the battle field. After winning a few battles, the cult of Mohammed grew and as more people were defeated, and the nations of Islam became ever more powerful, the religion expanded.

Most religions got to the place they are today through a sort of self-fulfilling-prophecy. Have a religion: inspire the troops. Win the battle: grow the religion. Bigger religion: more people fighting and supporting you. Bigger support base: easier to win more/bigger battles.... and on it goes.

If God were really out there, he wouldn't be in so many forms in all the different places. He'd reveal himself in the same way all throughout the world. Different religions exist because different people had different views and agendas when they wrote the rule books (holy books). That's why there are different religions. The question is though, why are there religions at all. Well, they explain the unexplainable. Whatever is outside our sphere of understanding to a significant extent must be magic, or God. The second reason is this. If I have an idea and you have a conflicting idea, there could be stalemate, conflict, and lots of negative outcomes. Now, if my idea came from God (or so I tell you and everyone else) then I can get you and everyone else to go along with my idea.

This is just a rough outline of why there isn't a God, and why religions exist, not a definitive answer, so please don't bother mailing me, I'm not really interested (unless you're an atheist) and please don't pray for me. If you've got time on your hands to pray you've got too much time on your hands. Get off your backside/knees and go help someone who needs it, or help yourself!

Make the world a better place and stop waiting for 'God" to do it for us.

Matthew 24:6

And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

It makes sense. Resistance is futile because war is inevitable anyways. No need to be troubled. Its just war. Its not like it is something new.

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