Society is society, and you need to deal with that, sure, but everything else you said is completely choice. You don't need to work to pay bills if you don't have them, you don't need kids if you don't want them. You just do what it is that YOU want, and nothing more.

I can't tell you what is after life, but I can tell you to enjoy life as much as you can.

I like to think I spend my time making other people's live better over my own, so that breaks your rule =p

I am the opposite of you, I questioned my faith and found God. I was raised a Baptist, but at 13 I started to question whether God existed. At that time I was posting on a website called gamingworld, in the off-topic section I found a thread with people debating over religion. It helped me to actually go through the bible and read it, which had not done to this point. Any issue someone brought up about Christianity I researched, and questioned both sides of the coin. I found that as I did so it actually brought me closer, as I kept finding things that to me proved God existed.

So in the end I am still very much a Christian, there's just to much chance to say we spontaneously appeared one day. I mean down to every molecule on the earth it had to be perfect for us to exist, and in life nothing and no-one is perfect. The air has to have an exact percentage of oxygen/nitrogen/etc, the animals each have their own roles in keeping life going as do the bugs. The sun had to be at an exact distance from the earth, the moon as well. I could go on forever with this.

Also another thing to note, your reason for becoming depressed at your "realization" could be as you said. Or it could be your falling away from God. I mean your replies to comments are showing themselves as well. If there is no meaning to life why live it? Why take the time to even write up this article? I still will never know why anyone would want to believe something like this. Anyways, not arguing with you in the least bit here so don't think that I am. Good luck in whatever you do with your life.

I was saying that to shorten my post, but the Big Bang does say exactly that it did spontaneously happen. You choose to look at it one way I choose the other.

And yes, they do have to be exact for us to exist. If oxygen was a few percent more or less life would not be here, if the earth was to far or to close it would have not been inhabitable. In exact, I meant exactly what you are saying I just obviously worded it wrong and have to spell out everything.

There are many other things I found to prove His existence, but anyone that has Netflix should watch: "The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel. That would explain things much better than I ever could.

As I stated, you have your view and I have another. That does not mean either of us is wrong, this is why I generally avoid these debates over the internet. It's much better to talk to someone in person.

But your just reinforcing what I said, if oxygen was a few percent more or less we would not exist(as we know it).. which is exactly what I stated. Also your "facts" are not proven either as no other planet has been found like earth yet. However even if one was found it would not prove God does not exist(same with finding aliens). I never said I don't believe in evolution either, I actually do. Just not macro-evolution.

According to the big bang theory, they "know" already what happened. I watched a documentary with Stephen Hawking, he stated that it was caused by some "randomly appearing and disappearing atoms." Who's to say God is not doing that? How did the universal laws like physics come into effect? We will never know the truth 100% till we perish.

The answer to your last question is simply faith, which is part of Christianity.

This is going in circles as you can see, so I am done here. Just watch that documentary if you are open-minded at all to see my point of view and what made me a even stronger Christian, it's about a Atheist trying to disprove the bible but he actually does the opposite, and it's based on facts he found.

I know I said I was done, but it's so hard to resist! Especially when someone is so misinformed about Christianity.

Obviously you have never read the bible, so you should not comment on it. God does not ever state He never created aliens, and never states He did. If they were found it would prove nothing, I don't understand why non-Christians have this line of thought. God in his power could have easily created multiple life-forms if he was able to create us. There's animals, bugs, and the sort as well so that makes no sense to say He could create earth but not another one. I mean He created the universe including stars/planets/galaxies/etc to show His power, so why not other habitable worlds?

I don't think there is some sort of "monarch" in science, I know there are many theories and many people criticizing them. I was simply stating according to him there already is a "explanation" of how it randomly happened.

I will have to look up those planets, thanks for pointing that out I didn't know they already found some(which would be awesome, I would love to someday have humans on other worlds).

*edit* looked them up, the last on your list has been confirmed not to be possible to support life. The others are however still possible, according to the respective wikis. Pretty interesting stuff though, thanks for the suggestion!

Boxcar was right. Debating is not for those who have chosen a side. It's for those who realize they are in the middle.

I guess there's nothing more to be said about the subject.

I'll be leaving this up if any of you want to continue this trivial arguement or comment on the above thread.

EDIT:

I have decided to continue with my parent's beliefs. Even though I plan on picking up a Torah or Qu'ran and studying them, I'm more comfortable with christianity. Why?

In my opinion, most christians tend to be nicer and kinder than others. Maybe it's because they want to please God or get to heaven, but they are (apparently) doing everything right. I won't just use it as a label. I'll actually do something important as a christian. Derp.