Lots of bashing for the belief of God....

[sapphi_snake]

@DélioPT:

That`s like saying freedom is having no freedom. Just because something has consequences it means there is no freedom? It`s still a choice.
In a world of right or wrong, one is accepting God, the other is rejecting, so what do you expect?

Since God controls everything, things have consequences because he makes it so. Also, there are things who genuenly have no negative consequences (homosexuality for example), and the only reason you consider it to be wrong is "because God says so" (in other words you're following someone's whim, not to mention a someone who doesn't even exist, but that's beside the point).

Also, Scoobes accurately described my views better then I did. This whole situation is blackmail. It's no different then someone pointing a gun at you and saying "do what I say or I'll blow your brais out". Sure, you have a choice: submit or die.

You speak of results not of motivations.

I was more talking of the motivations for his death. I also don't see how he died for anyone other than for his own crime (or percieved crime). This whole part of the Christian religion always seemed ridiculous me. If God (who damned humanity in the first place, for the mistake of only two people, the benevolent guy that he is) decided he wanted to forgive them, this whole Juses thing was really unnecessary.

As before, what do you expect? When you reject Him would you still like anything good to happen to you? How can that happen if you don`t accept Him in the first place.
It`s like breaking a rule, being punished for it and compleining about being punished.

Again, he made the rules. He wants people to suffer if they don't want to be under his control.

There`s nothing for someone who doesn`t have a belief in God. Every single person on this planet faces temptations, even harder ones like drug addictions and alcohol. And that`s something that people can fight if they want to.
Just because they aren`t hurting anyone else phisically or spiritually, doesn`t mean there`s nothing wrong with it.
If it`s not homosexuality it`s something else that people will claim that it`s their hapiness doing this or that, but religion doesn`t work like that. I am sure some people even get mad as i said, it`s nor personnal, it`s something that religions see as being wrong and therefore they can`t aprove.

Unlike taking drugs or drinking alcohol, homosexuality isn't harmful, quite the contrary, a same sex relationship brings happiness to a homosexual. And if no one is hurt "physically or spiritually" then what reason could you popssibly have to deny people happiness and make them hate themselves? This would make your God downright evil and a bully, making people hate themselves and feel ugly (something which his followers do quite often).