I believe that something started time, matter, space, whatever really. We just can't imagine or understand it, and it wouldn't be worth the effort to try. Perhaps said something formulated the laws of physics (after all, not too hard, as you can track down most physics to simple laws on a subatomic scale), then vanished due to its own existence would be impossible according to those laws. For all I know, it might have been an accident.
After that, well, nothing. I have my own Big Bang theory (what triggered it, not what happened), but from there, no deities or whatsoever. Just huge amounts of coincidences and events, which ultimately led us to the moment of now.
I bet there are people out there who would be offended by what is to come, but one thing has to be said first:
If you can't stand your faith being questioned, argued against, insulted, you don't believe strong enough. Or you believe in the wrong thing, check out what arguments your faith have to counter the non-believers. If it's anything along the lines of "they're idiots", well, you don't have much to stand on.
And then to the point. I think that organised religion is a trick, hoax, scam, power-tool, misunderstanding, money-machine, brainwash-tool, whatever you want to call it. Opium to the masses, if I remember the quote right. The ideologies may be fine and well, but in the end, it's just another way to make some people more powerful. I'm not going into details, I have plenty of arguments ready, but no need to throw them at people if they agree anyways.
An short, no big cheese. Just a lot of stories, made up to profit on behalf of the masses.
After that, well, nothing. I have my own Big Bang theory (what triggered it, not what happened), but from there, no deities or whatsoever. Just huge amounts of coincidences and events, which ultimately led us to the moment of now.
I bet there are people out there who would be offended by what is to come, but one thing has to be said first:
If you can't stand your faith being questioned, argued against, insulted, you don't believe strong enough. Or you believe in the wrong thing, check out what arguments your faith have to counter the non-believers. If it's anything along the lines of "they're idiots", well, you don't have much to stand on.
And then to the point. I think that organised religion is a trick, hoax, scam, power-tool, misunderstanding, money-machine, brainwash-tool, whatever you want to call it. Opium to the masses, if I remember the quote right. The ideologies may be fine and well, but in the end, it's just another way to make some people more powerful. I'm not going into details, I have plenty of arguments ready, but no need to throw them at people if they agree anyways.
An short, no big cheese. Just a lot of stories, made up to profit on behalf of the masses.