Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Why I'm an Atheist...

I don't like talking about religion much; eventhough, I'm gonna do it just this one time, I know what I'm going to say will make a lot of controversy, but be forwarned that i'm NOT trying to convert or convince anyone with my beliefs, I'm just simply stating why I'm an athiest; for those who would feel offended by what I'm going to say: "please don't keep on reading..."

- The 1st Paradox: God is fair, or is he? God creates a person knowing that that person is going to take actions that would eventually lead him/her to Hell!! I'm not discussing if this person has a choice or not, I'm assuming that he/she has the ability to choose his/her actions. what I'm trying to say is that creating an entity knowing that it's gonna behave in a certain way even when it has free will, then punishing it for this behaviour doesn't apply to the definition of fair. When God creates someone previously knowing that he/she would choose a path to hell isn't really giving him or her a choice now is it??

- The 2nd Paradox: God gets angry!!
Anger is a reaction to a upsetting event that we didn't know about earlier, but since God is omniscient and knows everything, how can he be angry about things that he already knew it was bound to happen?? When you throw a rock up in the air you can't get angry because it fell down again because you already knew will happen. So I find the whole concept of God being angry at the actions of humans very hard to understand....

I Could keep on going about this forever if I wanted because the talk never ends, I think I said enough to explain my point. At the end I just want to remind you that I respect everybody's beliefs and I refuse to judge anyone or be judged based on religious beliefs, "Addein lellah, walwatan lejjame3"

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