I understand that you might have been upset by the death of someone so young, but to suggest that the homeless don't deserve to live... that's just horrible.

I might have misunderstood though. If so, then I apologise.

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The Eightfold Path is really hard to explain, and if you are interested in learning more, then I could PM you. I don't want to go way off topic.

We are all equal people.

inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error

logic and proper empirical method is the only way the whole world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything

it is better to be good to each other and to build on what we all agree to be true, than to insist that we all think alike

People are ment to die. If they die it's just because God wants to end their sufferings here on earth.

Although I am religious, I don't hold gods in any higher regard than I do humans.

I believe that if you are born as a god, then you are only concerned with your own happiness, and so you won't attain enlightenment as a god.

If God did exist couldn't he/she stop Adam and Eve from eating the forbidden fruit preventing all of man-kind to be cursed, God could of even prevented Satan from talking to them yet alone keep him in hell. If God existed there would be no war, suffering, famine and countless loss of innocence life. To me the actions of God in the bible just make me realise that there is no God. How can someone like God cause and watch so much suffering happen in the whole and not do anything? Wiping out all of man-kind except two of each animal and Noah's family seems like God is a mere child, angry that his plans did not work.. And why pick just Earth to watch over when the universe is so big?

Gods are only concerned with their own happiness in you religion? That's a bit odd, but a pretty interesting point of view. Exactly what religion are you part of?

From Homer Simpson: "What if we picked the wrong religion? Every time we go to church we're just making God madder and madder!")

He's probably shooting for this paradise we speak of right now and all of these 'bad things' are necessary steps to reach such prosperity. Why kill innocent people? Innocent people should not fear death because they're going to go some where pretty sweet when there time's up.

That doesn't really justify it but if you knew that your death would save countless people in the future and allow them to live lives filled with nothing but joy, would you do it? Maybe God knows that these 'sacrifices' would and only takes what is needed. As for only picking Earth to watch over, there really isn't any proof that God is or isn't; that's kind of a moot point.

From Ebon Musings: According to its proponents, God has offered humans a choice: to accept and worship him, or to reject him. People who choose to worship him will ascend to Heaven when they die, where they will receive an infinite reward. People who choose to reject him will be cast into Hell, where they will receive an infinite punishment.

the only thing you said that sort of irked me a little is 'there is no God'. That's a bit over the top; I guess you did give us fair warning at the end though.

From Ebon Musings: As it turned out, at some point during those first six days God had also created the angels, to serve him and praise him for all eternity. However, one angel didn't care for this arrangement. Satan - who according to some sources was the highest and wisest of all the angels - denounced God, declared war on his maker, and convinced a full third of the heavenly host to join his rebellion against the throne. How he was able to accomplish this is not clear. Did God create one-third of his angels defective?

At this point, God could have used his omnipotent power to zap Satan and the rest of the rebel angels out of existence entirely. Or he could have changed them with a snap of his all-powerful fingers, fixing the flaws in their personalities and returning them to a state of goodness and obedience. But he did neither. Instead, for unclear reasons, he actually engaged the rebels in battle, and of course defeated them easily. He then cast them out of Heaven and created a fiery pit called Hell in which he would imprison and torture them forever as punishment for their treason.

Those with sufficiently negative karma are reborn there, where they stay until their negative karma has been used up, at which point they are reborn in another realm.