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Welcome to my advice column. ...Call me Charis. First of all, before I say anything else, let me say this- I come here to give and get advice, not ratings, not comments. If you rate me, tell me whether or not I was of any help to you. Now, that being said, let me say...I'm not your typical sixteen year old girl. I'm not extremely exciting, brilliant, special, or fascinating in any way. I AM however, insane. =P I fit into several "categories" such as redneck, tomboy, bookworm, dork, and band geek, to name a few. I have a wide variety of intrests, including but not limited to: mythology, philosophy, history, art, literature, political science, religion, role playing, music, and current issues. I love politics, and will never cease to voice my opinion about something. I believe is is very important for people (especially young people) to be involved in the world around them. They need to get out, get active, and have a strong, fact-based point of view on things. I'm a very strong conservative. Die-hard, in fact. But I do have friends all over the political scale- democrats, republicans, libertarians...everything, except maybe communist. x_x I support President Bush, and I have an opinion on almost everything and anything political, because I'm good like that. I don't put my email up on sites any more because I get hate mail when someone disagrees with me. I don't mind people having their own opinions, but I refuse to have to put up with some unhinged, crazed maniac who's only goal when writing his/her e-mail is to call my vile names, curse at me, and tell me how stupid I am. I don't care what your political view is- liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, there're an unhinged left AND an unhinged right, and I don't have the time or patience to put up with either.

I'm a strong supporter of the US Army and other branches of the Armed Forces.

I love animals, and I have two Siberian Huskies- named Hailey and Cupid; and an African Dwarf Frog called Aqua. As I said before, I especially love politics, and will never cease to voice my opinion about something. I believe is is very important for people (especially young people) to be involved in the world around them. They need to get out, get active, and have a strong, fact-based point of view on things.

I collect icons. -random-

I've been told numerous times I'm insane, and I really ought to seek professional help. I have a deep, irreversable fear of: The color pink, sharks, and being abducted by aliens only to fall out of their spaceship and be sucked into a black hole (don't ask)...

The world is my playground, and life is the practice run. ^-^

advice

I don't want to offend anyone with my questions but theres just so much that doesnt make sense about god and religion. i really do want to believe but i dont understand somethings and it makes me think god cant exist becaus of these things that dont add up.
firstly evolution. humans evolved from apes, there's been loads of scienctific evidence and documentries about it and you learn about it in science. But the bible says adam and eve were the first man and woman, so according to religion evolution cant have existed, well not in humans anyway.
If god is so great and loves us all, why does he make people suffer? i mean even highly religion people. the pope sufferd loads before he died and he's about as religios as people get, so why would god make him suffer?
Also, if god is so great and loves us all, why does he send people to hell? i know some deserve it but surely he wouldnt want anyone to be sent to hell for eternity?
This last point is not something i thought of, it's something that was talked about on the radio but it makes you think. There are lots of religions, but if any, only 1 must be true and the rest of them are lies. people must have made some religions up because some say theres only 1 god, some religions have many gods and all different types of beliefs, so they cant all be true. i hope someone can help me, because its so confusing and i honestly do want to believe.
sorry, if i offended anyone, i really dont want to. its just so confusing.
thank you x

This is coming from my viewpoint as a Christian. I'll address these one at a time:

"humans evolved from apes, there's been loads of scienctific evidence and documentries about it and you learn about it in science. But the bible says adam and eve were the first man and woman, so according to religion evolution cant have existed, well not in humans anyway." --There is no SOLID proof that humans are in fact evolved from apes. Humans and other primates share DNA that is so close, there is less than 1% of difference between our DNA and theirs, so that particular evoloutionary theory is just that- I theory based on facts. There is no way to ACTUALLY proove that humans are ape decendants. Also, many people believe in evoloution AND religion- the Bible says that time is different to God: a million years to us could be one second to Him, we don't know for sure. Sot he whole "the earth was created in 7 days" thing the Bible says- it never specifies whether it means day as WE percieve it, or day as HE percieves it.

"If god is so great and loves us all, why does he make people suffer?" --Yes, God does love us all. The Bible says that suffering does not come from God, but from the Devil. No, this doesn't mean that everything bad in our lives is eveil- have you ever been in a situation where you thought something was aweful, but later on it turned out to be the pathway for something great? God gives us trials, but never more than we can handle.

"Also, if god is so great and loves us all, why does he send people to hell? i know some deserve it but surely he wouldnt want anyone to be sent to hell for eternity?" --Hell is where non-believers go. He doesn't send just anybody and everybody. Because He loves us, He isn't going to FORCE us to believe in Him while we're here on earth. So when the time comes for every tongue to confess He lives, those who gladly choose Him NOW will be the ones to live with Him in Heaven.

"This last point is not something i thought of, it's something that was talked about on the radio but it makes you think. There are lots of religions, but if any, only 1 must be true and the rest of them are lies. people must have made some religions up because some say theres only 1 god, some religions have many gods and all different types of beliefs, so they cant all be true. i hope someone can help me, because its so confusing and i honestly do want to believe." --That is a very good point. If you will look at history, you will see that EVERY group of people throught time has worshiped SOME sort of deity, which means that at least one of them has to be right. Yes, there are people who don't believe in any God, but every GROUP of people, every civilization as a whole, has had some sort of god/dess they believe(d) in..so doesn't that sort of show that hey, if everyone believe the same thing (more or less) then there's got to be a reason for it.

I can't tell you what religion to believe in. I would prefer it if you (and the whole world) were Christian, but obviously that is not something I have control of. The most I can tell you at this point it to figure out what YOU think is true in a universal sense, and see what religion(s) coincide most closely with what you percieve to be the truth.

I sinerely hope this helped you, and that you figure out what you believe in.

-Avari

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