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Religion is a way to keep people from fucking up and being "immoral". Going to heaven is a lovely way to think about death but, I in sincerest way doubt it. It is the easy way out to life. We are getting too smart for the old book teachings that have some fictional things that we might have believed 75-100 years ago.

 

The bible was written by men 2000-4000 years ago. We're much smarter now.

 

hmmmm, not that I'm a believer. Just throwing out ideas here, maybe he took more time on earth because he did after all put his people on it. maybe the rest of the universe is just a fake that he put there to screw with out minds........when were talking about someone that can do ANYTHING it's hard to come up with ideas.

 

yup, there you go.

 

dude you think God or Jesus christ or who ever made the planet? They made absolutely nothing.

The planet was here like 4 million or billion years ago WAY before any of this rubish came along.

He didn't create the universe neither.

It all created itself on an unimaginable scale.

Lucky if there was even a such thing as God which I think there wasn't and it's all bullcrap.

God is no one, never turned his blood into wine or anything of that sort.

If he did exist he certainly is NOTHING like people think he is and that theres heaven and hell and he has powers and such.

Seriously who ever believes any of this whole religious non sense has serious issues.

 

Actually the Bible says God took the 7th day off to rest and admire his work. Thus Christians take Sunday off to admire him. You can thank Henry Ford for Saturday.

The Bible also said that to God a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day. Basically trying to paint the picture that "time" is insignifigant to God. So, trying to figure out how long it took him to do anything is asinine.

 

Ya know when people ask questions or point out faults in movies?? And the answer given is usually, 'It's a movie."


Same thing. Its just a story. Most of which written decades, if not centuries after the fact.

 

So it took him 6000 years to make the earth? When did he get time to make the other planets and moons and suns and black holes and supernovas and asteroids and meteorites and crap?

If time is insignificant to God then why did it take him any time at all to make the earth? Why doesn't the bible just say "God wanted there to be an earth so verily there was an earth"?

 

If that were true there would be no religions based on stuff like this.. ooh i gone and said it.

but in all seriousness, were not getting smarter, if anything its the reverse due to smartness not really playing a role in our evolution; too many dumb fucks manage to procreate. its not like we need to outwit predators or anything like that nowadays..

we are but standing on the shoulders of giants.

 

Pfff, stop being so negative.

If anything, the relative level of human violence have decreased over the centuries and millennia. And there is a continuing trend of general increase in human IQ and adoption of human-rights based politics. With one notable exception naturally, the islamic world.

Ofcourse, the potential for violence have increased with advances in destructive means of waging war. But those means are primarily massed in reasonable states of the west (Including Russia), India and China. As such the only worries are Pakistan and the amount of civil unrest and possible upheaval Muslims in Europe manage to incite.

The renewed technological/industrial space race between China/Russia and USA/EU/Russia (Russia are really hedging their bet here ) ensures a further and strengthened allocation of funds to the hard sciences, and thru that encouraging free inquiry, a staple of democratic development. Not to mention all the wonderful possibilities that opens up. Not least of which in the light of the emerging private space sector.

With the emergence of self control and stability in South America, what is left really is the mess that is Africa, and the threat that is Islam. Though neither should be minimized, only one of them may lead to a major war.

Oh, and stop trying to make sense of the bible. It is nonsensical, so you'll only hurt your brain if you try

 

Word the fuck up.

 

For real. It's the Bible.

 

im not sure our intelligence is getting greater though, maybe our extelligence is (knowledge from books and the internet etc).. as for problem solving ability, we use calculators and computers all the time instead of thinking through problems.. we are relying less and less on our brains..

as for violence, id say were about the same as ever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_toll world war 2 was the most bloody war. note the Noncombatant killings too, the highest numbers recorded this centuary. also in the uk the amount of stabbings and violence has risen over the last decade.

as for human rights based politics, we seem to be going the other way nowadays with the war on terror, the war on drugs.. etc when will people realise you cant solve anything with a war.

 

With regards to violence, do notice that I spoke in relative terms. I do not argue that WW1 and WW2 was the most violent wars ever. They were. Never was so many killed in such a short span of time. But then again, even with regards to the death toll of both those wars, the mean age of death have increased without pause throughout recorded history. That means less violent death per capita. And that trend continues still.

Not saying local (in geography or time) exceptions do not happen, just that they are the not the rule. The rule is, overall, things really are improving. And have done so for centuries.

 

mean age increase is down to better medicine and standards of living, not violence alone.

why are violent movies and games so popular? etc

perhaps violence has not decreased, maybe it is being expressed through safer means.

 

Never said it was due to less violence alone. But there is less violence as a whole today than at any other time in history. And that is a fact.

Violence have always been popular. Or more correct, competition. And that is a good thing. Competition ensures progress. Your question is laden with an unstated premise, that violence is bad. That might not be necessarily true.

Violence is violence. I do not think safety is a major concern when violence is used.

 

I'd agree.