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i'm not really religious at all. my family doesn't go to church or anything and one day my parents found out i don't really believe in god. and they kinda like freaked and said we're going to start going to church and stuff [we never did]/ k so i have some questions about all this religion stuff.

-who wrote the bible?

-i mean really how is it possible that theres some great god up in the sky?

-who all thought of this? like there had to be someone who came up with this?

-who created these so called sins?

-if being gay is a "sin", why did this god create them?

-how do people know anything of what they looked like or did?



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many religious folks would tell you it was holy men who witnessed history and put it into words on a page. even if this was the case, the bible has been re-translated, and edited SO many times throughout history it's surprising anyone believes the things in it are true. For example, people talk about the virgin mary. In the old aromaic (the langauage spoken when jesus was alive) virgin literally means young girl, not someone who has never had sex. The church uses things like this to its advantage, and therefore the bible should not be taken nearly as seriously as it is.

I don't belive there's some grat god up in the sky, but anything's possible. One thing to think about is the fact that miracles seemed to stop right around the time when people could record history in detail. This indicates that there were no miracles, and people told stories about god intervening when he didn't.

I believe that in order to prevent chaos and create a system other than government for controlling people, religion was created. People aren't able to focus exclusively on knowledge and real life because a lot of people are idiots and need something to believe that doesn't require questioning or thought of any kind, and that in my opinion is why religion was created.

Being gay isn't wrong, it is a sin (but what does that count for anyway?), and it isn't normal. Then again having piercings isn't normal, but a lot of people have them and there's nothing necessarily wrong with them.

I know i'm a pessimist and kind of a non-believer, but please take into account at least some of what I said.

By the way, my family never goes to church either. I used to be a devout Lutheran, and I went to a Lutheran elementary school for 5 years until I finally questioned the things I was being told and realized how ridiculous a lot of it was.

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