The other side sees the simple realities all around, and are driven to seek all truths.

Both sides are identical except for the paths of electric currents through their minds.

One side invents, the other searches.
One side wishes, the other creates.

And by the way, God did not make man in his own image, man made God in his own image.

Flame on, friends. You’ll get nowhere ever.

believing in god goes nowhere, its a fast answer to lazy fuckers who love ignorance

Second, someone stated somewhere above that “matter cannot come from nothing therefore there must be a god who created the universe”. True, matter cannot come from nothing. But that is NOT a reason to think that a God created them, for what the F is God created from? He cannot certainly be a “nothing”, you said so yourself. And what created the thing that created god? see, everything moves in cycles.
Look at the clock. At midnight the clock starts over 00:00. Look at the calendar. It restarts after 365 days. It doesn’t really restart, for it is continuing all the time. But time is NOT linear either, because that leaves us with a nothing at the beginning of the timeline, and eternity ahead of us…and what if that timeline stops? what do we get then…nothing?

What I am trying to say is, time moves in a big cycle, or loop. Time though, in reality, doesn’t exist, I just use the word time to simplify things. Just like a priest says God instead of the Universe. If you think for a while, everything (at least all I can think of) fluctuates and moves in cycles. Civilizations, life, planets, energy.

Therefore time is a quite faulty value, for there is no beginning and no ending. If there is a value 0 and in contrast a maximum value, then time cannot be truly cyclical, for this means that the minimum value and the maximum value will have to meet where the cycle “ends” or “restarts”. And we all know that max and min are each others counterparts…placing these next to each other does not work.

I won’t go more in depth, and I have been trying to keep my comment short, for I know that half of the commentators won’t read my comment or completely disagree. I am just sharing my opinions and beliefs.
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Before I stop I also want to say that I do not believe in heaven or hell either. Think of this: in the Bible (I haven’t read any other holy texts so I cannot use them as examples here unfortunately), there are a lot of advices and rules of how to live as a true Christian.
Living truly can shortly be described as living after the seven holy virtues, be a giving person, not be tempted into sin, and so on, I think most christians should know what a true Christian is, so I hope I don’t have to explain further about that.

ANYWAY, if everyone (I mean EVERYONE) on this planet lived as a true Christian, would there be a need for heaven, or would we not already be there? I don’t think heaven is a place in the clouds…No, heaven is to me more like a descriptive name referring to the beauty and surrealism of the skies; remember that when the Bible was written, air travel was obviously not possible.

Also one should not take the words in the Bible too seriously, and definitely not literary! If you have read the bible you will find a LOT of symbols, and not to mention all the metaphors.

What are these symbols and, metaphors good for? To make a greater vision more easy to fathom and understand, especially when targeting low-educated people. In my mind, the Bible is just a simple way to describe the world, to explain the wonders of nature and how to live in harmony with each other.

However, when brought from generation to generation, humans tend to distort fact and amplify the details they like. For example, there was a study where a test person told a story about a theft to another test person, who then told another…and so on. (sorry I have forgotten the reference to this) Anyway, in the beginning the criminal in the story was a white man robbing a black man. In the end, after passing through 15-20 test persons, the criminal was a black man stabbing a white man. Notice the difference!?

If we apply the same behaviour on the Bible and other Holy texts, you could easily understand how easy mistakes happen when telling a story and bringing it to the next generation. I think the modern version of religion is a very amplified version of the original. Take Buddhism as an example. Buddha was never a god, but in the end he became in the eyes of many buddhists, a God.

Though, this smells photoshop. The northern lights are not quite this bright usually, as far as I’ve seen. But it may well be possible, just not likely.