Is Believing in God Like Believing in the Flying Spaghetti Monster? [Spirituality & Religion]

@ForgottenLore37 r'Amen, brother, r'Amen. At least we have real evidence of Pasta.

@Sharon R'amen. May he embrace you in his noodly appendages and you feel one with the sauce.

@ForgottenLore37 @Sharon [quote]I'd rather be a Pastafarian than a Christian anyday.[/quote]

Why?

@GodSpeed63 You can't understand until you've been touched by the Flying Spaghetti Monster's Noodly Appendage. r'Amen.

@Sharon Hell is real.People have been brought back from the dead and seen it.Look up those accounts.Lets start there.

@Butterflykisses24 [quote]Hell is real.People have been brought back from the dead and seen it.Look up those accounts.Lets start there.[/quote]

God be with you, Daisy, Sharon is not interested in knowing the Truth. She's just on here acting like a fool trying to discredit us.

@GodSpeed63 I see she wanted proof.There are eye witness accounts of dead people,brought back to life.

@Butterflykisses24 [quote]I see she wanted proof.[/quote]

For your sake, I hope she sees those videos. May I suggest you put some on this thread for her to look at?

@GodSpeed63 I don't know how.I saw them years ago but sure they could be found.

@GodSpeed63 I just googled it many videos there of people's accounts of heaven and hell who died or had near death experiences.

@Butterflykisses24 [quote]I don't know how.[/quote]

Go to Youtube, find the video that you want to put on here, right click on the video, click copy URL in the box that pops up, come here and click on the photo icon, choose video in the box, paste the URL in the bar that pops up. It'll appear in the reply box and then you click the post comment button.

@GodSpeed63 I have tried posting videos without luck.It could be that I'm on my smartphone

@Butterflykisses24 [quote]I have tried posting videos without luck.It could be that I'm on my smartphone[/quote]

Do you have a computer?

@GodSpeed63 not a personal computer.

@Butterflykisses24 [quote].There are eye witness accounts of dead people,brought back to life.[/quote]
No, there are accounts of people coming out of deep comas claiming to have seen "the afterlife". Interestingly, these accounts all seem to be culturally specific - that is, people see "the afterlife" their culture or religion. Odinists see Odin and Valhalla or Freyja and Fólkvangr for example.

The important thing to remember is that these people are not really dead. That's why they're called "[b]NEAR[/b] death experiences" - note the word [b]"NEAR"[/b], I can't emphasize it enough. "Brought back to life" is an unscientific, inaccurate, journalists' term to describe such a "[b]NEAR[/b] death experience".

@GodSpeed63 [quote]trying to discredit us.[/quote]
LOL! You that very well yourself, you don't need anyone's help.

@Sharon I'm sorry you must have wrong information. I googled dead people see hell.There are accounts.

@Butterflykisses24 On the contrary, it is you who has incorrect information.

No doubt there are some people with a christian background who believe they see Hell (or heaven) when they have a [b]NEAR[/b] death experience. Note well the word [b]"near"[/b], it means they were close to death but [b]not[/b] actually dead. Quite simply, they see what they expect to see.

There are also reports from people of other religions who believe they see the afterlife as taught be their religious upbringing when they have a near death experience. Their testimonies are no less valid than those of christians. Would you accept that proves their afterlife is a real place too?

Considerable research has been carried out into the phenomenon. Google "near death experience psychology" (without the quotes) to find some scholarly articles such as https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50601-6 for example. HTH.

@Sharon [quote]On the contrary, it is you who has incorrect information.[/quote]

Prove it.

@GodSpeed63 I did, I told @Butterflykisses24 how to find academic papers (some peer reviewed) on the subject and even gave her a direct link to one such. Once you've read it you can give us your reasoned critique of it.

@Sharon [quote]I did, I told @Daisy50 how to find academic papers (some peer reviewed) on the subject and even gave her a direct link to one such.[/quote]

You missed the mark by a mile, Sharon, try again.

@GodSpeed63 [quote]You missed the mark by a mile, [/quote]
LOL! You've missed it by a parsec.

How are you getting on with preparing your considered rebuttal of the study I gave @Butterflykisses24 a link to? I hope that study isn't too highbrow for you, I can try to find something less challenging for you if need be.

@Sharon He's gonna need pictures hun! 🤷‍♀️

@Harriet03 That study uses a lot of polysyllabic words that he's not likely to find in a junior dictionary so I expect you're right.