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Deity and the faith of man (2)

In his letter Gerie Cowie speaks of “the great lenghts that atheists, secularists and humanists will go through in order to desperately try to disprove...” I must say the unproven “existence of God”.

I would like to know precisely what “great lenghts” he is referring to. As far as I know all we are doing is discussing here, we are but a loyal opposition who until a not too distant past, since we tend to question the beliefs of the majority, were hardly allowed a voice.

At the end of the day whether one claims to believe or not to believe, the faithful are only being faithful and scientists are still doing their research, so in a certain sense we are all agnostic, in the sense that we know that we don’t really know.

As such my grudge is not against the concept of a God, but religion, especially when mankind invents and decides what offends God and what doesn’t. Who knows? I sometimes ask myself, maybe there is a God who created the universe after all, but when we die we just die, mankind is no more important than His other creatures. But, we just had to invent a heaven, hell, reincarnation and all that other stuff as well, didn’t we?

Mr Cowie, who wrote “so, to all those people who will no doubt be commenting negatively against this letter, bring it on!”, need not feel so threatened.

However, I do find it rather hypocritical of him who would not have anyone mock the Bible, to have a go at other available authors and internet information that begs to differ. How else is one supposed to broaden one’s horizons?

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Rob Huber

Feb 7th, 15:03

We all take a stand in life whether its with God, without God or against God. The fact that we all take a stand very obviously means that God is alive. The Bible is the most intelligently written book in the history of humanity. If you ever dared to read some of it you would realise that one would find it very difficult to understand unless in spirit of God. There is nothing wrong with the Bible. It is also a historical fact that Jesus existed: Lucian (c.120 - after c.180), Josephus (c.37 - c.100 ), Tacitus (c. 56 - c.120) all included him in their writings. Dont be fooled by what people say and state.

Karl Consiglio

Feb 7th, 19:15

@Rob Huber,

"If you ever dared to read some of it..."

Don't worry we're Maltese.

Francis Sammut

Feb 4th, 16:15

''Though shalt not make unto thee any graven image............and it goes on........'' Now as I'm sure you know sir, that is from Exodus, part of the Bible which it seems we tend to forget or ignore. It's a recognised and well renowned source of information, which has existed for a very long time! Either we believe in the Bible or we believe parts of it where it suits us!

Karl Consiglio

Feb 4th, 15:55

"What is hypocritical about pointing out the shortcomings of those who wish to try to disprove the existence of God and mock religion?"

Instead of presents Santa will get them potatoes

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