Where did the Big Bang Come from?

[Aura7541]

Norris2k said:

You think you talk about God, but you make quite a confusion between very different concepts, such as God, Monotheist God, religion, religious authority, and superstition.

First,
- God is a concept of something/someone beyond humanity. You are absolutely not talking about that.
- The monotheist God is the idea of an omnipotent, omniscient God that exists before anything. You are not really talking about that.

An then, there is:
- The religion, which is a common belief and concept for a perticular God. It includes the Bible and its strange or illogical stories. There is no way denying the logic of the Bible would lead to deny God or the monotheist God.
- The religious authority, which is a human organization that as such tends to be in search for growth, control, power, but also... makes mistake. That included making the priest, Church and Bible the single source of reference. Which lead to make the science a competitor as a reference, but also a risk for the power balance so far in favor of the religion. Which lead at some point of time to the flat earth belief protection, which is not a constant in Christian religion (see wikipedia), not even a statement of its Bible, and not a word of God (if any).
- The Bible which the religious authory and religion is partly based on. Man-made, translated multiple times, different possible interpretations, part symbolic, part truth, it would very wrong to make the validity or morality of it a decision point about God.
- And last but not least, superstition. The idea that a cross will prevent a disease. And it's plain stupidity, for quite a lot of them it was spread by religious authorities, but it's not related to the existence or not of God, a monotheist God, the pertinence of the Bible, etc.

So, educated people believe less in God, but their education has an impact on what is the less directly related to God. Myself I think I can say I'm educated, and I'm atheist, but the explanation of why would be a lot more complex than "religion is full of crap".

Took the words out of my mouth. I would like to add that the Bible was actually poorly written and written by multiple people. There so many contradictions within that book that it's not even funny.

The concept of a god began way before Christianity even began. Because humans weren't as technologically advanced and observant as we are now, they couldn't really explain certain phenomena that were happening in the world such as rain. As a result, they concocted a bunch of ideas as to how these phenomena happen which included the idea of a god. Christianity even didn't exist until about 4000 years after the first human civilization, the Sumerians.

So overall, religion and the concept of a god or gods are all manmade. There could be a god outside the universe, but we don't know at all. Rather, is it even worth knowing? Each religion's idea of the omnipotent deity such as the Christian god, Yahweh, Allah, Zeus, Odin, Vishnu, whatever are totally wrong from the "actual god". A lot of people have done really heinous things to other people and get away with it. Where was God to punish these people? Exactly, these concepts of god are false because our observations directly disprove them. The "actual god" could just be some blob for all we know, but what good is there to knowing about that when that knowledge is inapplicable?