Danes feel Obama is greater than Jesus

[kandrathe]

And believing that a guy comes back from the dead instead is healthy reasoning. Finally the difference between thinking you are Napoleon, and believing in miracles, horoscopes and hand reading is not so big.

Something as common as a modern flashlight would be a miracle to people 2000 years ago. Is it so hard to conceive of a person who seemingly dead to be "resurrected"? The deification of Christ is something that happened a couple hundred years after his time of walking around performing the "miracles" of healing. Look at the myths that have arisen around Saint Nicholas. When these events were transpiring 60 some generations ago, your and my ancestors were building henges and huddling around fire pits in crude huts afraid of the dark.

If you change your perception of "miracle" to something not yet explained by our current understanding, you will begin to understand better. I've witnessed things I cannot explain with science first hand, which does not mean anyone should quit their job and become a hermit. But, I do think that limiting the scope of reality to what you believe is a bit restrictive. I feel that you consider anyone who speculates on a reality that is more complex than yours is being foolish. I think it is the opposite. A seeker of truth will open their mind to any possibility if it leads to a better and higher understanding of the truth. This is not a blind adherence to any dogma, of science, or of religion.

The second after the big bang occurred space and time began to exist. We are bounded by a 3 dimensional space, and are bounded by time. How many dimensions are there? The Kaluza–Klein theory predicts there are five dimensions. According to string theory and M-theory there may be 10 or 11 dimensions, but no physical proof of them exists. My point being that the universe is a pretty big complex place, and neither of us know a whit about it or even how we got here in the first place. The big bang seems pretty miraculous to me.

My statement about religion is that as a social construct that when properly used leads to building people of morality and good character. The atheist version of this as far as I can tell is the Unitarian Universalist denomination. It is human nature to be anti-social, or immoral, and so blaming the failure of people on the various positive social constructs, like religion, is wrong headed. For example, if a vegetarian eats a hamburger does it permanently undo their belief, or can they be redeemed? If it happens all the time, well, then they aren't a very good vegetarian. Were it not for certain societal constructs bringing out our better nature, we'd be 6 billion monkey's flinging poo at each other.