It's evolution bay-bee

[gemfyre]

I don't get all these religious types who believe that God negates evolution.

I just watched yet another show on evolution and crikey, it just makes me believe in a God even more. All that utter brilliance and chance and simplicity and complexity and adaptation and everything all rolled into one. I mean, how could you look at all that and NOT believe in a God??

*smiles to herself*

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Re: Hm

[sassamifrass.livejournal.com]

I'm not religious for a chance at "heaven". I don't actually really know whether I believe in a heaven. I believe that God is everything, and that we are all a part of God - God is the life force that we all posses - the abillity to respond to stimuli, to think and to reason and argue. Even dead matter or inorganic chemicals are a part of God to me, because it gives life, and provides it a place to inhabit.

Religion to me is a set of ideas on how one should live one's life in a way that makes you and others happy and treats all equally. AS the Dali Lama said; "Kindness is my religion."

The majority of my beliefs co-incide with the Christian stream of thought, but I believe the Bible is not a direct record of history. It is stories - stories are what people tell each other to explain things - why we should treat each other kindly, why we should care for our parents, and why we should not steal, or kill others. There's things in the Bible I disagree with. Doesn't bother me... because stories change throughout the ages to suit the society, and societies' rules change. Just like fairytales mutate. The Bible simply hasn't undergone that process. I don't believe God cares if a man has a relationship with another man, or if a woman doesn't sacrifice a goat after becoming unclean :P I don't think God built a little sectioned-off Garden and man the first woman from a rib. It's all just stories people tell each other to try and get their heads around the thing we call life. Philosophers are great at this. Philosophy is my best answer to any of the negative things said about atheism or a belief in God(s)/(esses). Jesus was a philosopher. As was Buhdda. And Socrates. People believe different things about these people, but I admire them all for what they achieved.

I believe that God's religion is kindness. And that's the religion I follow... I think he was being a bit mean calling religion a "virus" and "mind-fuck" and other equally derogatory things. A little tolerance would be nice ^^