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[latinomasfino]

welll i was catholic but now i dont know wut to belive...im currently takin this astronomy class in colllege and like inono it just questoins a lot of things ive been taught...just makes u look at the earth as a grain of sand in a vast desert.....was there a jesus? all we have is a numbe of books made by normal men..who claim all thsoe stuff to be tru....but then how do we explain miracles or is it just luck or our supposidly our faith which is actually us takin action that allows us to do those things that only a miracle would have allowed..anyone every think about all this?,,,,we obviuosly arent the only ones here in space if u think about it our sun is a star one of a trillinon stars in which others have planets...we havnet been able to relaly look at them in detail because our techonoly is still advanceing but all this bogggles the mind....out side our galaxy there is a layer that surrounds us that is not made of any element and proton or neutron or electron..its called dark matter and we dont know wut it is we cant even see it..on earth we have 3 dimensnos height width and length well in the universe there are up to 11 dimensions how the hell do we explain that lol ....how does the bibel explain this how does the bibel expalin the other galaxies and the other stars it doesnt all it does is deal with the earth...mayve there is a GOD or soemthing that must have created the universe but if there is i dnot think jesus was his son and he our planet out of the billinos out there just my 2 thoughts. anyone please dont hesitate to comment

[JKceli]

I agree with what Natalie is saying to an extent. The purpose of religion is seen in many different ways. That does not mean that anyone's beliefs are right or wrong, but essentially that is what they are, beliefs. Some people use the teachings of texts such as the Bible, Torah, Koran, etc. as guides for the way in which they live their lives. I have a problem with extremely religious people because they tend to follow these teachings in a literal sense. I'm agnostic, meaning unlike atheism I believe in a power greater than that which we are able to comprehend, but I make no judgements about it. This is what works for me, but I do have friends who have made many positive life changes because of their faith. So religion isn't necessarily bad as philosophers like Karl Marx suggest. It's providing a crutch for people who need that type of support system.