Originally Posted by: HammurabiNonsense, he would go custom. He was the son of a carpenter, you know.

Lol, you think a guy who makes furniture for IKEA could just as easily work for Martin? I doubt it.
Anyway, about God.
Of the two foremost theories that seek to explain our existence, creation by a supreme being and the big bang stuff; even if I was a neutral observer, I think it's more stupid to believe in an accident that is the big bang and evolution theory than it is stupid to believe in some supreme "god". To look at the cosmos, and the diversity of life, and the question of how reproduction takes place, how the blue print of how you'r gonna look like when you grow up is stored in 46 chromosomes, and attribute that kind of a system to "an accident", and to have someone else attribute it to a god he cannot explain, I think I chose to go with the god I can't explain. Makes more sense to me that way.
I try not to place too much emphasis on stuff relating to religious orientation, coz a lot of that has a lot to do with how we're raised. Most people raised in christian families are christians, in muslim families are muslim, and so on and so forth. Rather than think about how stupid it is to worship a cow, I think to myself, "...wait a sec David, if YOU were born and raised in India, you'd probably be doing the exact same thing, so don't feel too clever, OK?..."
I subscribe to the christian version of events, because that is what I was taught. It's not because I know better, it's what I was taught, and I believe in God and Jesus and the whole thing completely. However, sometimes I feel that seeing as virtually all religions have a supreme being, it's the one and the same being we all worship. Maybe we are right and others are wrong. I dunno about that. By nature, human beings tend to assume their own version of events to be the most correct, so yes, I also think that the bible version fo stuff is the most correct.
If in the end, if there's an "end", the true version of things will become known, then it will become known. If you believe that those who don't believe in what your god says will be punished by your god for their transgression, then it will come to pass. And if it turns out the atheists are the ones who knew it all along, that too will be. If there's a plan that God had for the world, I;m sure it will come to be. If this was just a development of the big bang, and when we die that's the end of it, then that's the way it is.
If you come across any religious teachings that teach positive stuff, then I'm sure there's something to be learnt there. Tolerate other people. If a man in a funny coloured robe and a beard touching the ground tells me to be kind to my neighbours, how can I tell him he is wrong. If he tells me to drink a cow's urine coz it's holy, that's where I draw the line. If a Muslim teracher tells me to help an orphan, I can't tell him he is wrong, just coz I'm not muslim. But if he tells me to stone a woman who has a child out of wedlock because that's what the Koran says, well, let's just say I'll stop short of telling him to stuff his K up you know what.
That's how I see it.