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Originally Posted by myrrh
This a very long and interesting thread. The one thing about it is that when these kinds of discussions ensue there usually is no clear definition of the concept of God. So, everyone reading this can have their own idea of this concept and it be different to everyone elses.
Therefor you can have people saying that they don't beleive in God, but that is based on a Biblical/Christian definition of God. And I have found most atheists come from this type of background. It seems that most people who denounce the concept of God come from Europe or the US, and these were the heartlands of Christianity.
So, perhaps, that speaks more about the religion of Christianity and how it defines God, rather than the existence of God in a general stance.
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that was sort of my whole point in discussing it with the person i did at the beginning of the thread. christianity draws a lot from roman/greek mythology in that there is a lack of forgiveness at the end of life, and everyone who doesn't do what G-d wants will go to hell and have no second chance, burn for eternity, etc. and it paints G-d as an unforgiving character. that's kind of how i see christianity, it's not really judaism plus jesus, it's more than that— and i think it's mostly to do with the theologists that came after jesus such as paul and many of the european theologists, they took judaism, put jesus in, and then added an evil anti-G-d (satan) to kind of push everyone into doing what they wanted, and proclaimed that G-d was a non-forgiving character who would send you to hell if you didn't exactly do everything the catholic church proscribed.