Quote - ...but there are also churchs who believe the part of the bible where God is quoted as stating "For lack of knowlege, my people perish" and they encourage thought and study and even... gasp... science!

Well they must not encourage it too seriously becasue I can't for the life of me see how anybody who has put any serious thought into it all could come away from it still believing in God, if they're really trying to learn about it all.

There simply is no evidence for God's existence, and on the contrary there are hundreds of thousands of pieces of scientific and historical data that strongly indicate whoever wrote the creation story and the whole Jesus thing simply made it all up.

A few things that society has always needed in all our history:
A Creator or Creators, Gods and overseers, and a path to salvation and eternal life. Those themes have been found existing in many forms long before the Judao-Christian thing began. All religions have simply borrowed the ideas they like best from the earliest and most ancient and have added their own flair and new details to them. In all its forms, collectively, it's the oldest story in human history.

It's myth, legend, fantasy... hope.... but it's anything but real.

Just IMVHO of course. :D

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