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A theory is something people think could have happened, because they do not know for sure what happened, it's not reality. There are many theories on how the world started, all of them are true ?
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something that is not proven is called a scientific hypothesis, a theory is when something is proven
a theory is that if I throw the apple from the balcony, it's going to fall on the street, are there any chances that I will throw the apple and it will fly up instead?
a hypothesis is saying I will throw the apple down, and it will bounce on the street and hit a kid in the head
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As for Ramadan (for Muslims), is it bad to fast for a month in order to be modest and feel the pain our fellow poor people feel every day ? They can't even afford to drink clean water, it's nice to feel with them once in a while.
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it is bad for the health, you truly want to sacrifice you can stop eating chocolat, going to the movies and do community work that's my logic, if I bang my head on the wall to feel pain, it wouldn't exactly feed any hungry people
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Well, fear of hell is not a main reason why we beleive in God, but it's always good to respect and not defy your creator, don't you think ? You don't go into work and curse your boss and expect to get promoted.
You're going into relegion here. You know you can beleive in God, and not follow any relegion. Just beleive in God, and do good things in life. I'm not telling you to be obsessed by it, but you don't have to be a killer just to prove you don't beleive in God.
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I know it is good to respect a creator outside the idea of heaven and hell, and I know you don't need a religion to believe in God, my obection is against the current forms of religion and this definition of God. I am not against the idea of a God existing, as I said before no one can say there is no God, I am just against these stories of religions and this system of organised worshiping. If a God exists, he should respect our free will and reason and he must trust us to be able to make our own choices of whether we want to help the poor or not, whether we want to be honest or not and how our legal system is going to be formed
I believe in human laws to be the best laws to ensure the well being and most happiness to people on earth, our laws say you may not kill, you may not steal or rape and you should pay taxes
the reason why sex outside marriage and liying and being rich(it's a crime for a christian to be rich) and refusing to help the poor is not included in the constitution, is because there is no harm to society or great harm to other people if you do these things
in religion, stuff like that can deny you from eternal rest
religion speaks to people about eternity, when you are teaching people to pray and not to commit bad deeds, you're speaking to them about heaven and hell, this is the biggest punishment/reward system that can ever exist
you're not threatning to execute people who do not obey you, you're threatning with far far greater punishment...eternity this is why most people will not try and question God or his orders and how logical and good they are, and they will do their best to convince themselves that they love God more than anything and would do anything for him, out of self interest.
I do believe by the way that the only person you love in life is yourself, and your love to others is out of love or yourself. you love your father because he treats you well, if that man (who is your father ) happened to be your neighbor in an alternae life, you would not have loved him. you love your friend because you have fun together but if your friend hurts you very deeply, you might turn to hate him, the only love constant in the universe is self love, all other love is just a reaction to feelings of self benefit
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Man, if you don't beleive in God, you're not going to do any good deed in life, it's like you've been told come on go wild, no one's watching.
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you don't have to believe in God to do a good deed, and if you do a good deed because you believe in God, then you are doing it out of selfishness because deep down, you want him to see you do it
but if you don't believe but you still give sacrifices, that makes you truly a good person, because you understand that there is a great risk that your deed will go unoticed, and yet you chose to do it
I don't drink alcohol or smoke and I never told a lie in my life, and evenif my life depends on it I would never tell a lie in my life. I don't believe in a God that tells me to do so, but I believe that my self respect and to be able to command ther people's respect, I must do so