Shouldn't this thread be somewhere else...like not in the Flame Forum, perhaps?

Returning to the topic, there are plenty of other reasons to believe that there is some sort of higher being controlling things. For instance, if you look back on the evolution of human beings you'll find that it had to have taken a great deal of "luck" to have even gotten to where we are today. Our ancestors could have been wiped out of existance countless times. It took so much luck, in fact, that the majority of religious people find it hard to even grasp that some sort of higher being wasn't involved. Others yet believe in the Adam and Eve events. I myself find it hard to believe that we just popped into existance one day. There's way too much proof on the side of evolution. However, I also don't think that we could have come this far without some sort of "Divine Poking and Prodding". There's always the chance that it was all just merely luck, though.

As for believing that deceased people going to "Heaven", I think it's just a way ease the pain of the loss. If you just told a child that the person who died was just no longer alive, gone, slam-bam-dead, Poof!, All Gone!...It could be emotionally scarring. When my Grandfather died it helped to know that he was going to Heaven. It wasn't as painful to know that he was still looking over me. I think a good term would be "Spiritually Alive".

And as for the Bible...? Yeah, that's just a good peice of fiction, IMHO. Great reading material.


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Aha. Moved as I was typing the post.