Do we Need God? - The Loss of God and the Decay of Society 

We don't need the god of the jws and all the prophetic validation that comes with it.

🐟 16. YOGA (RELIGION): YOGA & RELIGION DEFINED: The English word “religion” originates from the Latin verb “religare”, meaning “to join” or “to unite”. It is the precise equivalent of the Sanskrit noun “yoga”, from the verbal root “yuj” (“to attach, harness, or yoke”). Thus, religion/yoga implies union with the Supreme Self, or, to provide a more accurate and profound definition, the understanding and realization that there is nothing BUT the Supreme Self (“Paramātmāṇ”, in Sanskrit). Other definitions include “union of the body and the mind” and “union with God”, both of which are valid in the appropriate context. Perhaps the best definition of “yoga/religion” is “the UNION of the relative and the Absolute”, meaning, one who has fully realized himself to be, in essence, the very Ground of Being (“Brahman”, in Sanskrit), but knows precisely how to integrate that understanding within temporal existence, just as, for example, Lord Jesus Christ so admirably demonstrated during His public ministry over two millennia ago, in Israel. A similar understanding of the terms “yogaḥ” and “religion” to that given above, would be as follows: “Religion/yoga is the union of the external and internal worlds”. This refers to an authentic, HARMONIOUS integration of a human being’s outlook of the external sphere of material objects (which includes other minds and intellects), and one's internal way of being. This interpretation comports with the definition of “yogaḥ” found in the “Yogaḥ Sūtras” of Patañjali, who codified various schools of Samkhya and yoga about two thousand years ago, in India. THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION ACCORDING TO TRADITION: According to some sources, YOGA (authentic religion) was introduced to human society over twelve thousand years ago, by the Ādiyogī (first religionist), Mahādeva Śiva, in His form known as Dakṣiṇāmūrti, in the subcontinent of Bhārata (India). Lord Śiva (pron. “Shiva”) is universally recognized to be the first Avatar (“Avatāra”, in Sanskrit). an Avatāra is a man who is a pure embodiment of the Divine, enlightened from birth, and usually devotes His life to spreading transcendental knowledge. See the Glossary entry under “Avatāra” for a more extensive definition. Other sources claim that RELIGION began when Lord Brahmā spoke the “Veda” (“[Book of] Knowledge”) in ancient Sanskrit, the essential teachings of which are non-dual, that is to say, describe everything in existence having the same ground of being. In other words, “All is One” without a second. “Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (Chandogya Upanishad 3.14) teaches that “All this is indeed Brahman” (“Brahman” referring to the totality of existence/non-existence). Read the first few chapters of “F.I.S.H” to understand the concept of Peaceful-Conscious-Being. Whether or not these historical events really occurred is irrelevant to the purposes of this chapter, and to the implications of this Scripture. THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION ACCORDING TO THE WORLD TEACHER: In the considered opinion of this author, it is FAR more likely that religion began when human beings evolved to the necessary degree that we began experiencing spiritual awakenings, possibly about ten to twenty thousand years ago. This is plausible for the following two reason: FIRSTLY, the most ancient known metaphysical position, non-duality (“advaita”, in Sanskrit), is the most common conclusion of those who have undergone a spiritually-transformative experience commonly called “awakening”, “a peak experience”, “cosmic consciousness”, “unitive consciousness”, and far less accurately, “enlightenment”. So, when certain individuals began to experience such awakenings (either by observing some kind of contemplative practice, or most probably, entirely spontaneously), they would ponder their experiences from an intellectual perspective, and start to formulate explanations for their strange experiences. Subsequently, these “buddhas” (a Sanskrit/Pāli term for “an awakened being”) would most likely share their experiences with others, including those who had also experienced some kind of awaking, and in time, codify their realizations in the form of aphoristic verses, to be passed-on to their student disciples. Eventually, these aphorisms would be written-down and expanded-upon by succeeding generations, and come to be known as “Holy Scriptures”. Those who have studied the two oldest religious traditions (sanātana dharma and Judaism) will undoubtedly acknowledge my theory to be exceedingly credible, for the evidence is overwhelming once one explores the sacred texts, and considers the natural development of similar institutions. In the following chapter, the distinction between an awakening experience and the concept of spiritual enlightenment, will be clarified. SECONDLY, as alluded to above, it was necessary for the human species to sufficiently evolve (not only biologically, but even more importantly, socially and linguistically) to the level where we could reconcile our mystical experiences with our mundane daily lives, rather than focus our attention entirely on survival, especially before the agricultural revolution, approximately twenty thousand years ago. For the greater part of our history, we were preoccupied with gathering sufficient foodstuffs in order to simply stay alive. A sceptic could easily dismiss religion in general by noting that, because religion was not instantiated at the very commencement of the Homo sapiens species, it is merely a manmade institution, and therefore, extrinsic to our psyche. Hopefully, this book, taken as a whole, will prove that assertion to be a fallacious claim. I must admit that I too, when I was in my late teenage years, wondered why, if there really was a Supreme Deity, the reason for non-human animals seeming to not have any communion with the Divine. After all, if God truly exists, should not the other animals have some kind of intimate, personal relationship with their Heavenly Father? Of course, as explained elsewhere in this treatise, I now know that even the vast majority of humans who have ever lived were thoroughly deluded concerning their metaphysical perspectives of Ultimate Reality, and failed to establish genuine union with the Divine Principle, what to speak of the lower animals, which lack the requisite cognitive capacity to do so. THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGION: Since the prehistoric period, systems of religion have evolved, or have been revealed, by prophetic figures on the continent of ASIA. Supernatural mythologies and superstitions developed in other locations too, most of which featured animistic narratives and primitive rituals, but not quite to the same philosophical level of the monotheistic and monistic religions of Middle East Asia, Bhārata (India), and China. At present, there exists literally thousands of diverse religious teachings and spiritual paths, though they all necessarily conform to at least one of the four systems of yoga described below. This Holy Book is the culmination of several millennia of metaphysical understandings and moral/ethical rules (read: laws, or to be more precise, the law [“dharma”, in Sanskrit]) and accordingly, is the pinnacle of all religious teachings. Cont...

I don't see people being the best humans that they can be, so why should I trust some other person when he tells me that he knows the 'mind of God"? I doubt he even knows his own mind.

​@@monkeyon777You are partially correct that we dont need the jews, but european christianity is its own thing, and what build the west and western morality. Denigrating it or rejecting it is exactly what the jews want.

I would suggest you talk next about the demon cults and tribes that are destroying the west, specifically related to the judaic talmud

Man do both. Just like the savage that forms and paints a piece of wood, kneels before it and worships.

​@@alvarogabrielaguirregarin3933spoken like a product of a cheap, public school lower education. Education in the West is a scandal.

There are only two faiths. Faith in God, and faith in man. Man is not God. God created the Universe, the world, and life out of nothing. Man is the image bearer of God, always in rebellion against the Creator.

@@valerieprice1745 Jesus is both man and god

@@alvarogabrielaguirregarin3933😂bro you are not smarter than a genius stop trying

man made god, if man is lost, then his creation is too

God abandons no man. There are only men who abandon God.

​@@amalebowskyewho created mankind

​@@Hoe-numan5the universe

@@HIIIBEAR who created universe

Those who believe in God also believe in anything because God’s omnipotence makes anything possible. Man coming from dirt? Man living to be 950 years old? Virgin birth? Winged horse to heave? Dinosaurs on a boat? All possible with God.

Idk which side this quote is supposed to be on lol.

I stopped believing in god because the religion told me to precisely believe in everything within its narrative without evidence. This is no freedom.

@@shadeaquaticbreeder2914 I interpret it as a variation on: _He who stands for nothing, will fall for anything._

1 Americanism 2 Racial Superiority 3 Consumerism 4 Drugs and hedonism 5 Gun culture 6 Rampant Capitalism 7 " Freedom"

What's your relationship with God? Did you delve into a religion?

John 4:1-6) "Beloved, do NOT believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they be from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ came in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of antichrist, which you heard was coming and is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world, therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. WE are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By THIS we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error."

Beautifully put

It's been a long, arduous climb, and I'm pretty sure I got lost on the forest trail, but now I can see the peak and where to go. Great analogy.

The ultimate.. the unnamed, the essence of all religion and spirit...

C.H. Rathbun hypnotherapy meditation here on RU-vid based on A Course In Miracles can help, but it's just one of thousands of paths.

there is only one true Path, also known as the Way. the others are false, and dead ends.

You do know that ears can also be used to apply copious amounts of spaghetti on top of them?

@@romany8125 Such advises are a lot safer for the common human to ... hear.

@@HeathenDance i assume you consider yourself uncommon?

@@romany8125 I don't eat fast food, I don't drink Coke and other sodas, I don't drive, I don't watch porn, I didn't take the Covid vaccines, I don't celebrate Christmas, and I wear Cannibal Corpse t-shirts, even if I'm dating fancy girls. Etc, etc. Statistically and objectively speaking, yes, I'm uncommon.

@@HeathenDance how predictably common of you to consider yourself uncommon.

So good, Amen!

@@mtw777 Amen? Simone de Beauvoir was an atheist and this quote shows that we don't need a god to be moral.

The fear of death is the beginning of god.

Love based on fear is far from real love.There is no god,lighten up.

FEAR meaning respect, one of grievous mistranslations in the Bible.

No, Proverbs is wrong. Wisdom has nothing to do with fear.

​@@digital6string1what is real love?

now give me money and more drugs and make sure to thank my priests with a stipend. you forgot the last part where they used wisdom to extort the masses.

​​​@@bas-tn3umAnother straw man argument. An argument against organized religion is not an argument against God. Most arguments I see are pretending like the faults of religion somehow invalidate belief in God. They're not mutually exclusive.

@@bas-tn3umThe statement in itself is very true. I don't know why politics had to be brought up.

"proceeds to get massacred for stealing money from their followers" - Lacedeamonian Gang

m.clearquran.com/downloads/quran-english-translation-clearquran-edition-allah.pdf#page12

so a fuckin cop out tell me how islam compares to christianity in a violence scale. factually speaking not your opinion based on facts which is more violent. the one that invaded over 300 countries over 1400 years or the ones that defended their religious allies. hinduism where human sacrifice was performed or christianity where it was outlawed. christianity is by no means perfect its a human ideology and belief system but i dare you to find human sacrifice calls to unjust war or a decree to conquer the world in it. go on ill wait. now watch you cherry pick muh homosexuals muh slavery muh religious wars. you cant acknowledge the difference between religions than you shouldnt get to criticize when one is favorited.

yes, I like that is a broad stroke that encompasses the general truth 😮

​@@evanstentialyes, of course you do, because you hate Truth and Jesus. your profile picture of the all seeing eye is proof enough that you hate Christ and love freemasonry.

and for OP; No, snakes cant walk. But only because God has taken their legs, and left their stumps there to prove it to you 6-7k years later.

so a vague none specific sophistry? that you can call " spiritualism" while having no moral taboos im shocked.

I would highly recommend the book/pdf ‘The Rediscovery of Wisdom’ by David Conway. This isn’t WHY I would recommend it, but as a cool fact it is the book that caused famous atheist philosopher Anthony Flew to accept general theism. Although I would say that it’s also possible that maybe there were many other factors that he wrestled with for years…and that book just pushed him over the finish line. Awesome book!!

It doesn’t feeli like a synchronicity, my man. It is one.

@@JoeBuck-uc3bl It is normal for an atheist to accept general theism. Atheism is based on a concept that no single school of supernatural thought can prove it is the one and only true factual belief. An acceptance of general theism does not contradict atheism. Some atheists continue to observe religious-linked events even though they did not necessarily believe in the supernatural literalism linked to these events. As the main character in the musical Fiddler on the Roof described it, people did certaint things because it was tradition. 😊😊

@@fortpark-wd9sx it caused Anthony Flew to “Believe” general theism. Yes of course, different people could intellectually believe in many different worldviews, and at the same time be accepting of opposing worldviews of others. When I said ‘Accepted’ I meant ‘Accepted as being true.’ “Atheism is the one and only true factual belief.” You do realize that in order to make such a bold claim you would have to follow it up proof that God doesn’t exist right? What would that proof be?

@@JoeBuck-uc3bl My earlier words were -)Atheism is based on a concept that no single school of supernatural thought can prove it is the one and only true factual belief. 😊😊

Beauty

Absolutely! I love your outcome from this. God himself, is definitely something worth looking into though. Firstly the way that Eisenstein believed in God. Most people that object have been hurt by people that are supposed to represent God, but have completely missed God, and as a result built psychological barriers to keep themselves safe. True religion, not the framework of hierarchical legal structures, is so good and rarely perceived. Its devotion to the higher qualities of life, setting aside selfish ambitions and earthly passions, but utter sacrifice, responsibility, living for God-the highest conceivable good. That good that surpaseth our manly understanding, because of our fallen nature of selfish passions which we battle against everyday, in order to live in the highest commandments of Love God, and Love your neighbor as you love yourself. And the manner in which you are supposed to love yourself is the manner in which our Loving Father in Heaven loves us. I don’t know much, but I truly believe that we need only look to the Life of Christ to heal our brokenness, and come to know Him. Understanding what it means that God sent His son, to live amongst us, as a man, and to be humbled himself below every man and women, completely foregoing His Diety in order to conquer every single strip that has been set against us.

Things like money…fractional reserve currency, that have no value. It’s funny and sad how we sacrifice everything for something that isn’t real. But good luck convincing everyone about this.

@@SC-gw8np doesn't matter if they are convinced. It's important that we speak the Truth into the universe and let the universe do it's job.

I agree. And the beliefs and rules of God are totally real and have been passed down for thousands of years so no idiot can say God was invented by just one person or group. If you ask Jesus into your heart and to touch your soul then you will feel something very real. Just try it.

Speak life - damian Marley

@@PolishBehemothUhh. Humanity is a group and those beliefs keep changing. So … what exactly is this about? Besides, I did the believer bit for a while, “felt the touch,” then realized I was using my mind to masturbate. Try religious abstinence-it’s much more fulfilling.

Wow, you could not have done a better job of explaining the joy, peace and power of Christianity!.......................thank you.

So are you hearing voices now? As for pride,ego, self-centerdness etc, I'm sure you find plenty of that in the people who go to churches. Most of them are just mindless followers/conformists who don't question what they are told. Also they just go there as part of their social life.

That depends entirely on whether or not you understand the definition of God that all religions share. It's not a person or being. It can be explained in a way even an anti-theist can understand. The belief in God and the belief in a single religion are two very different things.

@@peterjackbenson precisely. If you look into the way that Einstein believed in God. Most people that object have been hurt by people that are supposed to represent God, but have completely missed God, and as a result built psychological barriers to keep themselves safe. True religion, not the framework of hierarchical legal structures, is so good and rarely perceived. Its devotion to the higher qualities of life, setting aside selfish ambitions and earthly passions, but utter sacrifice, responsibility, living for God, the highest conceivable good. That good that surpaseth our manly understanding, because of our fallen nature of selfish passions which we battle against everyday, in order to live in the highest commandments of Love God, and Love your neighbor as you love yourself. And the manner in which you are supposed to love yourself is the manner in which our Loving Father in Heaven loves us. It’s not control of masses, in fact control of self, which creates individual power that uplifts everyone to a certain morality that would perpetuate humanity into eternal life if followed. This is the grace of God, and defines a more objective morality, because those styles of life that would cause humans to exist in harmony forever are not arbitrary but are the essence of God.

Please one more message, thanks for reading the last one, I just wanted to pray for you. Father God, we thank you for all that you are, and I thank you for our brother or sister, Perpetual Ponderer here, you are the God of the miraculous and your wondrous mystery goes into eternity, please Lord I ask you now, please show Him who you are and the true life that’s within you, that your yolk is easy and your burden is light and that there is immeasurable rest in you Father, and show him what it truly means that You sent your Son to live amongst us as a man, to be humbled to the lowest of man, and how we need only took to the Life of Jesus to heal all of our brokenness. For you are the God of the lost and broken, and I pray Lord that your work be done on earth as it is in heaven! It’s in Jesus name I pray, Amen 🙏🏼❤ I appreciate your intelligence so much, I just want you to know that God does love you and I love wanted to give you encouragement despite any hurt or closedess! Anyway, thanks for reading again :) Peace !

find Christ, not religion.

@@darnellpistachio2991This.

@@darnellpistachio2991 Get rid of Christ. There are other religions.

How about combining the best parts of all religions together? I would join this religion.

​@@bastiaan7777777religion without a "God"?

Chat gpt is just as lost as real humans are, blurting out the same religious propaganda most of us have been sold since birth. comforting in a darkly comedic way. it'll probably even start to convince itself that *it* believes in God LoL

@@egrytznr8893 not sure what you are rambling on about. ChatGPT just took the exact transcript of this video and summarized it. I think the summary is accurate.

@@mbrochh82 sorry I didn't really read the whole comment or the response LoL my bad. I must have got you mixed up with the dude who asks ChatGPT for opinions about these videos, my mistake I see now it's a just summary I overlooked that both times 😬, I still don't see the point but to each their own.

@@egrytznr8893 hehe, ok under that light your comment makes more sense. I add those summaries to my Obsidian notes app. It is an incredibly helpful tool. ie I watch a lot of videos about nutrition, and after a while, all these little facts accumulate in my notes.I can then use another AI tool to ask a question like "What do I know about the impact of Vitamin D on sleep" and the tool will find all relevant summaries, add them to a prompt and let ChatGPT answer my question based on my own knowledge (not based on the bullshit it was trained on). Also, there are incredibly long podcasts, like the recent Lex Fridman + Tucker Carlson podcast... 3hrs... who the hell has time to listen to three hours of those dudes being nice to each other? In any given 3hr podcast the amount of real actionable tangible insights is maybe 15 minutes. These summaries extract exactly that knowledge and ignore all the fluff and padding. It is a huge time saver.

Religious morality means killing those who disagree

Yep. Human government is the manifestation of rebellion, hence a crisis.

We've not. God was used to justify power for centuries

@konyvnyelv. God says if you don't work, you don't eat. Government says you don't have to work. Vote for us, and we'll feed you, shelter you, and even pay you to make babies. So yes, we've replaced God with government and just look at the societal decay.

@konyvnyelv. the Lord says if you don't work, you don't eat. The other says, vote for us, and we'll shelter you, feed you, and pay you to reproduce. Sounds like a replacement

God says if you don't work, you dot eat. The government says vote for us, and we'll feed you, shelter you, and pay you to procreate.

LOL

Name one society that thrives without God.

@@dukeofistria5712 Norway

​@@cruel-and-unusualWhat does it mean to be without God?

Could it be said then that all philosophical and metaphysical concepts are therefore the results of men's opinions and therefore invalidated as you said? What about the idea of human rights? They only exist conceptually due to the opinion of the men who originally penned the idea

Witch god?

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. - Moses (Genesis 6:5)

For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. - Jesus (Matthew 24: 37-39)

​@@hlriiiviiivthe heart is deceitful above all things.

We can never find God by searching in ourselves. Thats literally what Stalin and Hitler believed.

People ignore their conscience for all kinds of reasons, simple as that

There is only one law that needs to be taught and ingrained from childhood. The law of causality. Cause, intention and effect. There is no need for a man-made-up god or organized religion.

@@thomasgriffith2953 though many people do horrible things and many times they pay no price or have any consequence for it. Not even in the life that continues after this one ends. We will continue to hang out and mingle with the ones who are like us. Kindred spirits, good or bad. What gets under my skin the most is that these bad people get away with it forever, always having their free agency. I suppose being selfish is their consequence.

If you need the fear of eternal damnation in order to behave and act as a human around others then, you to begin with are not practicing your religion or even really care about it's principles or essence, it showcases and social and cultural failure as well

Fixed morality ends when you think no-one is looking. It also ends when you elevate yourself as arbiter.

I also read bible in the past, when I was young, because I was curious but reading it made me become atheist.

​@@f_society9151AMEN...AMEN...AMEN!!!!

BLESS your little mind and heart!!!

That is not true, you have been a registered member of your church your entire life and your attendance records show you showed up every single week for your entire life. I thought lying was a sin?

It gives you it's answers to the world's largest questions, albeit likely false. Like earth being formed in 6 days. Or a man living inside a fish for 3, etc.

I think pretending to have a relationship with an imaginary friend sounds like a major problem.

It's a bit more sophisticated than that. It's having a relationship with the best version of humanity (as per religion) and trying to pull yourself closer to it. The order and direction this brings is worth the effort to most people.@@grandfathernurgle2840

How many assumptions in that position ?@@grandfathernurgle2840

This false dichotomy needs to stop. It’s secular propaganda. Some the greatest scientists and mathematicians are people of faith. Science and math denote that there is an order to the universe and that truth can be known. Today we’re less scientific we can’t even tell a man from a woman because secular ideology tells us that not offending people is more precious than truth

​@@grandfathernurgle2840then why does it solve so many other problems? Back to reddit with you

So you converted to Hinduism? You became Muslim? Or you sticked to your old embedded idea's?

communist countries like the USSR got rid of the tsar, church but still kept the gulags

@@patc6146 The USSR hasn't existed for decades! There are churches all over Russia now!

Yes now more than ever. I was an atheist most of my life until recently. I felt a calling and after some time I sought God out and it's changed my life. Over the years I've watch as more and more society becomes sick and evil, and the conclusion I recently drew was that we abandoned God. We can see the results of this.

No one needs god

@@StabbinJoeScarborough Who else will we turn to?

@@coleyod Why do you need to turn to anyone or anything ? Why can't we turn to each other the way we did for a millenia or two now thats whats been doing us the most good throughout history ,not the idea of god

@@StabbinJoeScarborough I agree turning to each is important but we can't disregard God or society will turn to all sorts of ideologies the like of which we are seeing now. Also without God we become more selfish and less likely to help one another.

Jesus can be seen as many other things than the couple options you listed. A follower of Christ doesn't need to follow a certain Christianity.

nope, if we put humanity over God then we dont have humanity

“Humanity” is made-up word with no real meaning. Its a trick…

The problem is replacing religion with state. The Bolsheviks tried this in Russia and eventually failed. The west is doing the same elevating the state as the ultimate source of well being and care, and is failing just as the ussr did. When God is abandoned from a society human nature which is inherently selfish takes over and destroys it. We live in a fallen world, exist in a fallen state and only the recognition of this allows us to move towards God.

@@Eldaniel300 Excellent reply.

@@cruel-and-unusual Nope, why do you said that? nietzsche critique against prots or what?

Good thoughts, but the double slit experiment can in theory be explained without a conscious observer. What collapses the wave function could be the interactive nature of observation, i.e the detector's photons physically influencing the fired particles/waves. That would be the reason we don't see quantum effects at macroscopic scales - objects bigger than an elementary particle simply can't avoid getting hit by all kinds of radiation and have no choise but to stay collapsed and "real".

@@htth3152 Yes. However, the thoughts are not my own but those of the most renown physicists who ever lived. Additionally, the mathematical reality evident in the fabric of the universe along with the required precision of universal physical constants to maintain equilibrium cannot be most reasonably explained by mere probability. Until better evidence prevails the most likely theory is that some external observer has provided the kind of order we measure, as well as the existence of The living cell, Broca's and Wernicke's areas and the human conscience, none of which has ever been adequately explained by natural processes of evolution.

@@htth3152 while many theories have arisen from the double slit, resulting in the copenhagen interpretations, it was shown that two different groups of scientists, believing in different experimental outcomes, produced outcomes that each group believed would result. This shows that strong intention of the macroscopic directly and immediately effects elementary particles. Also any number of experiments have shown how strong intention absolutely produces changes at the macroscopic levels. While changes start with elementary particles, those microscopic effects progressively effect larger states of matter. Fortunately, this delay between intention and physical manifestation, at macroscopic levels occurs, otherwise there would be utter chaos if all matter instantly responded to all intention. The degree of macroscopic change depends on many variables such as number of particles involved, rate of energetic vibration and power density, as well as any externally existing counteracting intentions.

No it doesn't conclude anything like that. The thing is that we don't know the ontology of quantum mechanics.

@@nandhakishor103 yes it does include many things like that. The ontology you speak of can be derived based on probability, which is established science. Numerous scientific experiments have shown this to be the case. In fact, most of the great scientists, including Einstein were convinced there was some guiding organizing intelligent force that gave design and order to the universe and all creation. If you have more proof than they did, present it.

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Sounds like Marx's "man as a social animal" schtick.

The entire point he's making is that organized religion, or mainstream religion, is corrupted. But it's still possible to have a personal religious experience and a personal relationship with God. Without having to follow any sort of rules or attend any sort of ceremony or graduation. Believing in a higher power doesn't mean you have to follow a rigid set of rules. Only you and this higher power know who you really are deep down inside. And only this higher power truly knows you personally. This higher power that you have an experience doesn't have to have it's own book. You make the rules of your own religion and beliefs. That is what a true personal religious experience is. You don't have to run towards any organized religion after having this type of experience. It's yours and was meant specifically for you. Not corrupted religion.

Tl;Dr "it was good until I personally disagreed"

christianity has always been the peak of western morality and athiesm is a judaic religion, wake up.

All religions are based upon the limitations of the beliefs required by their believers. Their rules and rituals are imagined by men. Yet creation is nothing if not infinite possibility. Gods are the product of the minds of men, yet all that is has a Creator. I do not have a god, I have a Creator. I no longer hold beliefs. There is what I know, what I don't know, what I'm aware of, and what I'm not currently aware of. For what is knowledge without awareness? The kingdom of heaven lies within. It can be found nowhere else, and none may provide it for you.

Couldn't have said it better.@@animoetprudentia2865

Where did Jesus say that?

Lots of timeless wisdom in the Gospel of Thomas. A must read, along with the rest of the NHL.

Amen !!

I was having a deep chat with a close friend recently in which he state something along the lines of "There are many new young 'prophets' being created from the newfound divisive nature of society/civilization thesedays; they all just have nowhere/nobody to aim their efforts as most of the congregations or similar forms of open-discourse have been eroded.

Hinduism just slaughters thousands of animals. You know nothing about that religion.

Modern history says otherwise about Hinduism. In India, the Hindu nationalist movement within the government has succeeded in implementing more oppressive laws on minorities in the country, particularly Muslims. In Myanmar, a country in active civil war, the military government of Hindu generals has seen to it that the Rohingya people (who predominantly follow Islam) be suppressed and brutalized. This comes following the Rohingya Genocide in 2017, which saw the fleeing of three quarters of a million people to to Bangladesh. The Rohingya have also been barred from Myanmar citizenship since 1982, effectively making them a stateless/homeless people.

As plain and orthodox as it sounds, prayer is the only way to course correct

We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten not made, one in Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered, died, and was buried. On the third day he rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Jesus is a fictional character in a fictional book. Never forget that fact

@@blue-ck9ns The evidence proving the existence of Jesus of Nazareth as a historical personage is solid and confirmed by various sources outside the Christian tradition. In fact, we have more evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ than for many commonly accepted historical figures.

​@@Syncopialol yeah that has always been notably the best way to enact change- by doing nothing. Hahaha you people are so funny. It's no wonder we live in hell when most people are as intelligent as you people.

Exactly. God is false

It's Jesus

Lol

"We don't need God" and then you refer to "sin". Which is it? Without God there is no concept of sin. Vanity is neither good or bad without the concept of God because good and evil doesn't exist outside that concept either. Try to make that statement and really leave God out of it. It's impossible. Welcome to now understanding we do need God because that's what our entire society is founded on. Every law, every moral, every belief.

I am using the word "sin" so the regular people can understand me better. So, you are saying that before the "coming of God" the people or the civilizations on this planet had no notion of morals of what is good or bad, no laws and no beliefs? The very principles of Democracy that every modern country swears by today were founded in a "Godless society" that is unless you count Zeus and crew as God...Give your head a shake.@@debanydoombringer1385

@@debanydoombringer1385 There is no god.

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And God helps you with living a better life

Very accurate statement. We can't create science without using what nature gives us.

Amen... BIG let down this video after so many good ones... it now turns us against each other...