Just stop, religion was made to control the idiot masses.
Cope
God is not real, or at least the religion interpretation isn’t, you’re all wasting your time.
Giga cope
Why do you think there’s millions of interpretations of the same religious books?
Because humans are flawed, evil, and manipulative, this doesn't mean humans don't have the capability to research thoroughly various religions whether they be abrahamic or otherwise and discern which one fits the best into Occams Razor.
They fluctuate in meaning everyday century! Religion is so disorganized, there is no proof for what any book says. Why doesn’t God give us a messiah or a prophet right now huh?
I'm a prophet, AMA. As for a Messiah, because it was said that the Messiah wouldn't come back until the end times.
But no, God just so happenly gave us all of them hundreds of years ago. He also stopped contact with humans and stopped doing magic around that period also. What a coincidence huh?
Prophets were people who roamed the world and gained as much information as possible, were able to logically discern the truth, and did all they could to spread it, and usually had a slight, albeit sometimes unknowing connection with God. Personally i'd say there were prophets in the last 2000 year ish period after Jesus died.
God doesn't give us free will, if you think being forced to believe in God and to follow his rules under the threat of being punished for all eternity is "free will" you're either in denial or just don't know any better
You're not forced to believe in anything. That's the whole point of free will, in fact it would actually be better if you had no knowledge of God or any religions and were just in ignorance, because that's basically a free ticket because you can't discern or research anything to delineate properly.
Many of the studies I’m discussing were conducted on a national level genius... So within a majority white population it was reported that religious people were still lower IQ than the non-religious. Race has nothing to do with it.
The non white population is rising, that brings down the national IQ, the fact is high IQ whites are much more likely to fall into the trap nihilism. I know because I fell into myself. I'm not trying to brag, but when I went to highschool, they had a special program for people in AP classes where they paid for IQ tests for all of us. I believe it was the stanford benet test. I got 154 or 156, for some reason I can't remember the exact number, but it was definitely 1 or the other. I got a free ride to University, I studied evolutionary psychology, and evolutionary biology, and in my free time I studied Abrahamic religions, all 3. I did actually get kicked out of university, because of several disagreements and fights with certain professors and other people at the school. I was very Atheistic, and Nihilistic, etc etc, but the more I researched and had a grasp on the facts, and didn't fall in line, I became enlightened on certain things. High IQ white men, fall for a trap, they find meaning in things that have no meaning, because they often have no purpose in life. It's a sad situation but it's very common.
