Philo, what if one comes to their ultimate conclusions about the reality of god when they are 34? Would that make any difference to you? Didn't think so.

Bronco lane,
Do you not find you are still living in the 70's?
I mean..John Lennon?...Imagine? Lennon didn't worship anything, unless it had a leaf (or two) attached to it and I don't mean trees!

Does "wacky-backy" mean anything to you? I'm damn sure John Lennon did!

In any event, the God is the God you choose and the one you choose is the one you praise and exhalt. There is no choice as to whom or what a person holds high in esteem, it all boils down to individualism, if one prays for money (which is in any event wrong)then he believes he will get rich and if he does get rich, thats the God he will praise for the rest of his life, you can believe that one! We are afterall...only human. Pray for rain, pray for a full crop, pray for love, pray for anything you like and when it comes into being, you will always praise that one God, doesn't this all sound very familiar?

To answer a question yes I did post in a thread about my mystical experiences.
Like others, well is it not true like all of us I wondered what may behind near death experiences and such.
Thought we came to a conclusion just maybe our brain is far greater that we know, and looks after us in ways we do not yet understand.
No offense meant but can we look at, well should we look at one of our newer religions?
Had to re write that, we are not free to look too close at some religions.
But some are clearly in most minds inventions, what will people in 200 years think?
Why have so many here failed to address numbers of followers?
Count the populations of Indonesia, Malaya, all the Arabic country's, China, how many are Christian?
Can it be that all those are wrong and we alone right?
Life remains a mystery to me death sometimes seems to leave a shadow is it our mind? or our wish to think we see or feel the dead?
IT is not Christianity the Bible reminds us the dead are dead until some day in the future.

Holy cow, Belly!

I do believe you could be in the running to receive the trophy for the longest debate on "General" OLO.

Hasn't your topic simply exposed the fact that most humans simply fear death and the threats of damnation which the religious often proclaim awaits the "wicked?"

Doesn't this lengthy debate expose the fact that the religious live in fear of offending "God" (if there is one) and anxiously hope for salvation in the afterlife - if there is one!

Perhaps someone should open a thread to assure readers that death is part of life and that we really should be more accepting of the fate that awaits us all. Afterall, we celebrate birth, why not death?

Conscience is my God. "Only to do the right and to love goodness" is all that one should aspire to - not the dogma force-fed to others by those who, unable to substantiate their claims about their beliefs in the super-natural, continually proclaim that their God is the only true ONE. This simply defies logic and reasoning - does it not?

dickie I find nothing to differ with you yet debate we do still.
In truth I see no harm, other than my few cheap shots, in the debate.
For me at least it is hard to think like those who are truly committed to a God, yet I find no fault in them.
It is clear some pity me, some dislike the thread and the fact it questions them.
I am surprised we humans let the boogie man that we should not discus politics or religion so often stop us each sharing our thoughts.

Dickie!
Where the heck have you been? long time no hear!
Welcome to one of the longest threads in this category!

We have still not,as yet,had evidence of a "God" but watch this space....