Religion, God, The Bible, Higher Powers Options

[OriskybusinessO]

I have a question for all of you believers out there...

If there are so many different reilgions, then how do you know which is true (please dont answer with 'faith')? If there were some 'higher-power' that everybody knew was true why wouldnt the whole world become that religion, or believe in them?

I think that the whole Bible, God, Higher Power deal is fake. There was once this man who traveled to Africa (around the 1400's before any European had ever been there) and wrote a book about how there are people there that had faces in there chests, necks 5 feet tall, etc. Everybody believed it. How do you know the Bible deal isnt like this? I am pretty sure there is no proof that this stuff is real... so please explain it to me. And don't say faith because some people who dont believe, or have 'faith', dont think that there is a higher power and it is just a bunch of... fake stuff.

[pympgangsta4real]

Why do people believe in love and fate? You can't touch it, you can't see it, you can't really prove it. Yet people believe in love and fate. I think people need to believe in something for security. Even if things in their life isn't going as they plan, they can always count on religion. I believe that's why...

They believe in love because they feel it. I can't explain fate, because it too, as does destiny, falls in the place of God and everything else. No one on this whole planet can prove it... yet it's a possibility. You're right that people need to believe in something for security... but what a better place to believe in than ourselves? We may not be able to always count on ourselves, but that's because of how society is and how society has trained us. We're afraid to fail, when failure and fear are the best motivators other than true love itself. Honestly, I believe that humanity simply CAN NOT accept the fact that some things, in this time and age, CAN NOT be explained, and CAN NOT be proven, and that's why we have such strong debates on the issues of religion and creation. No one on this planet has such authority to claim which religion is true and which is false, and one doing so would be one playing God himself... and the most famous man who tried to play God comes to mind... Adolf Hitler. No one has that right on this world, and when a single human being has the right to determine who has the right to live and who has the right to die in this world, then truly, there is something worth fearing in this world, and a big problem with society. Back on topic however... no one knows, and it's quite possible that no one will know either. You guys with me on this?