tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-919651755851617393.post5418216710359334374..comments2015-05-11T03:25:31.076-07:00Comments on Fool of Psalms: Faith and FootballBen Doubletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09269194589712364467noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-919651755851617393.post-50057690074073012782011-01-21T12:52:01.556-08:002011-01-21T12:52:01.556-08:00I like this analogy a lot. It sounds fitting in ma...I like this analogy a lot. It sounds fitting in many of the aspects like you laid out. One thought though. If Football is religion, NFL is the collection of all religions, and atheists are people who just don’t like football at all, it seems natural to ask this question: what are other sports? For example, what is soccer then, where there are also different factions, some people are extremely passionate with their own faction, and there are a lot of violence between fans of rival factions? If your line of analogy is strictly followed, would someone come to the conclusion that, if there's no religion, there will be something else that people will go crazy about and kill each other for (much like politics within one country, and wars between countries)?<br /><br />@godblahblah078, no, you can’t have a religion that is atheist in nature, that’s like saying black is white in nature, death is life in nature. Buddhism sure worships supernatural agents. You might say Buddhism rejects a creator God as the origin of the universe (or our world), but Buddhism has plenty of Gods, and they are supernatural. This is from wiki: “While Buddhist traditions do not deny the existence of supernatural beings (e.g., the devas, of which many are discussed in Buddhist scripture), it does not ascribe powers, in the typical Western sense, for creation, salvation or judgment, to the "gods". They are regarded as having the power to affect worldly events in much the same way as humans and animals have the power to do so. Just as humans can affect the world more than animals, devas can affect the world more than humans.” But I have to say, even as a religion, Buddhism is like a young adult and the three desert religions are like an infant.Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18182762678792760064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-919651755851617393.post-87943874581666007452011-01-08T07:32:35.013-08:002011-01-08T07:32:35.013-08:00I agreed with everything you said except your defi...I agreed with everything you said except your definition of religion...<br /><br />"In order to have a religion, you have to 1) believe a supernatural agent exists and 2) worship that supernatural agent"<br /><br />You can have religions without those two things, just like you can have religions that are atheist in nature. Buddhism is one example since they do not postulate the existence some supernatural agent we have to worship. <br /><br />Religion can take many forms and I have been in contact with many atheists I would categorize as religious. While they certainly are a minority and they definitely do NOT constitute a significant percentage of the movement I think that religion is not just for those that believe in god.godlessguitarmaestro078https://www.blogger.com/profile/09959999587663695577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-919651755851617393.post-365836786617919742011-01-05T18:02:08.243-08:002011-01-05T18:02:08.243-08:00Leprechauns are the true gods. And unlike Yahweh t...Leprechauns are the true gods. And unlike Yahweh they have actually been seen. Of course the people that have seen them were probably extremely drunk at the time, but they saw them.<br /><br />All kneel to the leprechauns.SandLizardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12377262557408603836noreply@blogger.com