chelsealou said:

"faith is what will get you to heaven, denying the existence of God will get you sent to hell"

I guess I just don't get it. God supposedly gives us free will but if we exercise if by deciding that we don't believe in Him, He sends us to Hell. All He'd have to do is give us the evidence and we'd all believe, but He doesn't, for apparantly perverse reasons.

Why, it's almost as if God doesn't exist and all this nonsense is mere rationalization.

Dear Mitch,
I wouldn't classify gravity as a chance, it is more of a creation. When a person makes a miracle, that is because they have been chosen by God to persue that miracle.Also when you win the lottary, sure thats random, but it is more a blessing than a coincidence.

Dear Cranky media guy,
Tell me this then,
who Created the planets, the trees, the animals, the humans, who created your family for that matter?? Did a tiny like microscopic particle go pppoooffff and make the mountains, the sky, the planets, and the human body????
when you said "All He'd have to do is give us the evidence and we'd all believe, but He doesn't, for apparantly perverse reasons.
" If you want my opionion go back a page.

Dear Chelsea,
Do you not understand the concept of gravity? Masses come together due to their size, I don't see anything pushing me down because nothing is really pushing me down, just something is holding me here. Plus 7 pounds of atmospheric pressure. Plus, since God wants people to share their wealth, He would only "bless" people who he know would share by letting them win the lottery. Unless they were poor to begin with. But there are millionaires who play the lottery and add onto their stacks of cash. In the presence of a fair and loving God, that wouldn't be possible. Like I've said though, I'm not saying there ISN'T a God, I'm just saying if there is, He doesn't seem to care about me.

To Cranky Media Guy,
It is reckless to believe that there isn't SOMETHING that created us, no matter how present the lack of evidence is. It is quite possible that no religion is right, and that there is some God whose gospel was lost in the time of Cavemen. So God or no God, there could've been something that put us here for a reason. Something in infinity that no one knows about, and will only know about when they die and go to another Realm. It could be anything, even something living on another planet, such as aliens or something. We could even be a constantly running computer program, but we don't know if we are or not. Any theory could be right, but atheism is reckless.

To anybody... Don't you think that Atheism should be Antitheism? Because Monotheism is believing in one God, and Polytheism is believing in more than one God. The prefix A means "1", such as in Asexual Reproduction, reproduction by one organism. So Antitheism seems like it would make more sense.

Dear Mitch,
yea I know your not saying that there isn't a God. And i totally disagree with the last thing you said. It doesn't matter how far away from God you are, he loves you more than you would even imagine. Despite all your sins and darkness you may come in contact with, he loves you because he created you. He wants you to be happy because just like everyone else, you are special and important to him. And no, he doesn't bless someone with the lottery because he knows that you will share it with someone. I dont know the true meaning, but I know that isnt the right one. He works in mysterious ways..

Mitch said:

"To Cranky Media Guy,
It is reckless to believe that there isn't SOMETHING that created us, no matter how present the lack of evidence is. It is quite possible that no religion is right, and that there is some God whose gospel was lost in the time of Cavemen. So God or no God, there could've been something that put us here for a reason."

Why is it "reckless" to refuse to believe in something for which there is ZERO evidence?

Do you believe in the Giant Tortoise on whose back the Earth sits as some Native American tribes believed? If not, why not? After all, there is NO evidence for that, either, but according to you, that lack of evidence should be no deterrent to belief.

Since there is NO evidence to back up the belief system of ANY religion, how did you decide which one to believe in? (I'm assuming here that you believe in SOME religious system.)

You don't seem unintelligent; I'm guessing that you wouldn't apply "logic" like this to anything other than religion. Why make an exception here?

This type of argument is what I was trying to AVOID when I posted my first thing. But I guess I'm in the conversation now, huh?

Chelsealou:
Well, no matter the case, you telling me how much He loves me isn't going to make me believe. Case Closed.

Cranky Media Guy:
Just because rivers aren't parting and bushes aren't burning doesn't mean that "normal" couldn't have changed from when a "God" interacted more with the Earth. Anything is possible, we went to the MOON in like a few years after we started our space program. Come on.

What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?

Magnetic ionizing femotode decouplers.

Im 17 now i first heard this riddle when i was in english class, and my teacher had it written on the board and told us that if we got the answer right we would wwin a big bag of candy, and i really wanted it...so i wrote down each part seperate What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die? First saw the rich need it and the poor have it...I thought that was weird and i remember saying to myself the rich have everything, the poor have little,i thought it out a little more greater than god? god is almighty nothing is greater than god, and more evil than the devil? come on now basic the devil is lord of hell, whats worse than burning in hell? it took that thought thats all it sounds simple now that i write it down but it took me a good 10 mins....i got the candy....lol but i still failed the class. odd

nothing

Did anyone notice that if you reply to the sender of this riddle, that your reply does not actually go to the person who sent it to you, but it is engineered to be sent to someone that you don't know, along with the email addresses of the string of people who have forwarded it, in addition to all of their friends' email addresses? Doesn't that seem a bit 'phishy'? I suspect that the purpose of this email is to collect email addresses for spamming. And all the while, we are so mesmerized by the riddle that we unwittingly help this scheme along. If you love this Paul Harvey message and attached riddle and want to send it to everyone you know, feel free, but instead of forwarding it with the forward button, copy it and then send it AND PLEASE do not reply to it, because I suspect you will then get the opposite of 'nothing' in your email box!

I figured out the answer really quick, but I didn't know I had for about ten minutes after that until I looked it up. I just knew that nothing is greater than God. Everything else kinda baffled me. I kept thinking it was something tangible because the last part had me thinking it was edible. But that's the way riddles work, right? Kinda like this one: The one who makes it doesn't want it, the one who wants it doesn't need it, and the one that needs it doesn't know their using it. What is it?

I couldn't get this one when I heard it the first time. I thought for a long time but I was finally told the answer. Its a casket.
:lol:
Anyway, good riddle. Later!

Now while I got the answer rather quickly, I had to go look into whether Mr. Harvey actually wrote this.

I recieved this in an email along with a nice little poem of sorts that was touching, but not belonging to Mr. Harvey.

I found that while many things that come to us via the internet are attributed to Mr. Harvey, most of them are not his work.

Most run a simliar line to his "Rest of the Story" theme, but this piece did not come from him.

He did read it on his show in 1997 but the original text was written by Lee Pitts and in 2000 it was included in "Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul".

Like the article attached to the riddle, Mr. Harvey did not write that either. He may have featured on it on his show once it crossed his path, but it is not his work.

So since there is no reliable source, the statistics are jaded as well.

Just my 2 cents worth 😊

Dear Mitch, Cranky & Chelsea,

I have seen Him.

You will ever guess where either!

He was hiding behind the tree the whole time!

Now lighten up guys, its a riddle. Flawed as it may be, it is meant to be fun. 😛

Dear Idiot (AKA Teetering Teeter)
If you can't read, that's what I was trying to avoid. This senseless program keeps sending me chit that says, "Reply to your message" so like a dumbass I keep reading the new posts and keep coming back to a website I was originally trying to do the same thing that you are right now with. It's a lost cause, and no matter what you say, as long as we have conscious minds, (whether made by a God or not,) we have the ability to form opinions, and the constant ability to express those opinions. No matter what you say, when the ability is available, some will use misuse and abuse their ability to do anything in relation with their opinions. This whole thing could be summed up in, "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE" or some other partially naive saying like, "IF YOU TRY YOU WILL FAIL" and stuff of or related to those. Okay, byebye. (With any luck, this won't trick me into coming back.)

;-P This one had a few og my co-wokers going for awhile.
We were sitting here really thinking about it, until we all decided to google it. I hated this riddle. I thought it was going to be a good one.

:) omg i got it in like 3or 4 seconds then googled it cuz i wanted to know if i was right this was so cool 😊

I'm just shocked that people admit to being athiests... I'll keep you in my prayers!!
I didn't get the answer... I guess I was thinking inside the box on this one!!

Heather said:

"I'm just shocked that people admit to being athiests"

You say that as if being an atheist is something a person should be ashamed of. Why?

As for praying for me, don't bother. Save your breath.

I cheated my son had to look it up and find the answer it really was a simple answer lol

I heard this a very long time ago. Today I'm 15 and I've been raised a catholic all my life. I heard this riddle in a class at a catholic school and after the first line was read the entire class shot back with a nothing. I very do much believe in the fact that children have a better understanding as of what is most important. I've been told all my life that God has the highest power. I think that religion is strongly based in this poll.

A wise man once said that I would rather go through all my life praising, worshiping, and fearing a god to die and find out there is no god or heaven, then to live my life as there is no god or heaven and to die and find out there is.

With this riddle it doesn

It's not our fault you were taught to blindly follow a ridiculous belief system for which no evidence exists. It's not our fault you can't learn to question your beliefs and realize how silly they are.

A wiser man once asked, "Why should I worship a being who, if He exists, is the most evil tyrant Man has ever known?"

First of all I question everything. Do I question my own religion yes as well as every other religion on the planet including atheists

Show you the proof? :lol:

You'd scream all about 'faith' and 'belief' if I pulled that one.

There is no proof to show you that God is evil. God doesn't exist, therefore he's not evil. The point of the matter was that if he did exist, he'd have to be evil. No kind, loving god could commit the evil he's committed against the world and it's inhabitants. Floods, typhoons, tsunamis, droughts, fires, volcanoes, earthquakes... all acts of god, if he existed.

Thank god he's just a myth.

Would you rather spend an eternity in Hell or Paradise? Would you rather be safe than sorry?

Whose Paradise and Hell? Remember, Christians are a minority on the planet and all religions teach that only theirs is the correct one. Which do I pick out of all the conflicting flavours? And who's to say that any of them are correct?

That

One more thing May God show you that light and that light touch your soul so on your day of questioning you may pass through the pearly gates. It is not my job to judge just spread the word.

Could you ask God for some extra punctuation? You seem to have run out.

No. The lack of punctuation is my fault. Nobodys Perfect!

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