Re: Unanswered prayers, or unintended blessings?
I believe that no super being made the universe, it was always there in one form or another and continues to evolve. In the infinity of time everything can happen and will happen. One event was the human race happened along and in due time it will go.
People have a hard time wrapping their head around the fact that something exists that was not made by someone or something. To explain that to themselves they are told to believe in a supreme being rather than accept the fact that it exists just because it does. I think that to believe in something like this we have to cast all common sense to the wind and do as the religious leaders say have faith.
Religion is power; this power is held by a few for their own use, to keep the masses in place and subservient to some god.
Ask yourself a simple question, which length of time will be the longest, the time before you were born or the time after you die? If the universe was created then the time after death will be the longest, they always speak of an eternity after death. Surely we have an eternity before and after life, eternity does not start nor does it end.
Amen, and pass the plate.