A quiz

Is this verse atheist or religious and why?
:

The good thing about being with God
is that you can not be bad
even if you want to.

The good thing about not being with God
is that
if you are good
then
you are God.

The winner gets two comments from me . and whoever knows me I never comment and if I do I really tell you what is going on.
When I was a judge few people including nourayasmine said it was the best comment they ever got. But I never let tem know it was me

The good thing about being with God
is that you can not be bad
even if you want to.

The good thing about not being with God
is that
if you are good
then
you are God.
^
Hmm I'm so curious I might get killed since I'm like a cat. Anyways it's both to be honest the first part is obviously religious and the second one is well duh not religious just kidding it's just athiest because no one can become God it's impossible we can become his angels but we can't become him to be honest it's a question that has no right or wrong because it's just too complicated and I didn't do it for the comments ^_^ I really don't need them Ddavidd since you know why anyways goodbye dear friend Godnless

-Mori

Haha what I love about you is that in your incoherence is always coherent. That is why I called you BOB.

Good luck in your future endeavors. But if you need support just don't beat around the bush, be honest, be straight forward and ask. you would never know...

You show me a human in the flesh who claims total goodness ,and I will show you someone bearing false witness to their absolute goodness
"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us."

James Truslow Adams

Walking with God through the mystery of the trinity is transcendental yet humility is something lost the moment one is aware of it . Religion is a path and not a destination
Who is like God?

Atheism is an egocentric philosophy in my opinion . For the most part "isms" are not falsifiable by reason alone
I don't know

It sounds like it's trying to land somewhere in between, but tripped over itself in the process and ended up as poetic sludge.
It's religious if the religion you're following seeks to make you a god. But if we're talking about promoting fealty for the canonical "god" then it reads atheistic.

A better question, why is this a quiz? Do you know the answer, ddavidd?
Please don't tell me you wrote this.

Ha ha it is a quiz because in your incongruous twist of verbal seduction, you confessed that you have no clue. Way belower than the first respond. It is so risible that sophistication often take you no where.

This is another puzzle for you: If you get over yourself you might see something new.

And it is not mine it is Rumi's

Michael I think the guy thinks very near to Rumi, maybe a clos neighbor!!

When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men

Rumi

Oh, okay. So you don't know the answer?

Hmm why must it be either of the two? If someone is religious, is it because they believe in God? or because they follow a certain religion? if someone is atheist, is it because they don't believe in God?

though both verses don't seem to negate the existence of a God, in that sense I would go with religious

if by how I interpret it at first read which I think is totally different to how others and even yourself interpret it, I just find it humorous and I would say it's none.

if it's neither of what I said, I'm clueless but I'm interested to know what the answer is.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Lets make it a little easier, Lets say there is a cycle, one side deity the other evil. If you enter from deity and circle counter clockwise you would see even the evil is part of deity. If you enter from the evil and go clockwise you would see even the deity is evil.

This is not the answer, but one step closer.
imagine: we sacrifice animal ( specially lambs) for God, like the Gods are blood thirsty. Devil worshiper they sacrifice innocent too, Most of their cults are based on the blood of virgin. No religion or evil never sacrifice wolves or tigers or whores (whether man or woman) etc. So from this, we see that they both are thirsty for the same liquid, smooth and innocent, noting but!! though in two different directions: though the cycle is the same. This is the pattern , it repeats in so many ordonnances.

Narph in our first encounter I noticed that you see the patterns but for that you are ready to sacrifice portions. So that shows your tendency to imbalance , because the portion comes before balance and balance before pattern. There are no patterns without balance. That is why you can't understand that verse, it is you who wobbles.

I think I understand the verse perfectly well, but my interpretation doesn't interest you. That's fine.
You asked if this poem is religious or atheistic, and so far you've received every answer. If none of the answers we've given you so far match your personal answer key for this piece, then I'm under the impression that you've posed the wrong question.

I don't know if this was for anyone and everyone....but still I want to answer because I love this question....So I'm sorry if I'm not supposed to.

Is this verse atheist or religious and why?
:

The good thing about being with God
is that you can not be bad
even if you want to.

The good thing about not being with God
is that
if you are good
then
you are God.

I feel that this verse is said by a person who believes in a power force( not exactly god) but not god....he is neither religious nor atheist because he does not believe in god he is not religious and as he does believe in some power we cannot call him an atheist......
I say this because in the first para he talks about believing in something and in the second he talks about himself being this belief stating that god does not exist.....

that is my answer but if i have to go according to atheist or religious....I will say it is perfectly atheist as mostly an atheist will only say this.He says in the first verse that( he kinda praises the religious ) but later on calls himself or the good ones god.Only an atheist will call himself god cause no religious person will call himself god....

Actually, in my opinion

an atheist does not believe in the existence of a God. So to call himself a God, he would be going against what he believes turning himself into religious

Only a religious man would call himself a God because he believes in the existence of at least one.

The only thing I found truly redeeming about the remake of the Fight of the Phoenix was this scene where the guy painting the word Phoenix on the side of the plane it took great faith to build from the wreckage of the original was his thoughts on the difference between religion and spirituality

http://youtu.be/FEf1bht4TKg

Truthfully... I like this quiz.... Seems like I'll have to call my honey... Sherlock Holmes to decipher this...

In the first situation there is a paradox.

If you are "with God" you are aligned in his ways and the naturalness of your acts are therefor "good." However, if you define "good" through the beingness of God, and if you are aligned thoroughly with this beingness, how could you "want" to be bad?

In the second situation, the absence of god removes the "constant" or universal standard for good. Therefore, by being good yourself you both partake of a new standard and replace god by your ownership of this standard of good.

Now, whether to discuss either situation in terms of atheism or religiosity is not necessary. Rather, consider it an existential quandary where the child must learn to incorporate the lessons of a parent who was never in the child's life.

O my God I do not feel like writing comment now. Is a couple of rain check good Larry? It was not that hard Narph was it now??

How can one be good where there is no God?? because the God is already there.

The massage is God is there to make us good otherwise if you are not good you could shove your religion... And if you are really good You are already with God. God is not begot about religions like us. He created them for us to become good. He doesn't worship his own creation!!

I think it's a non religious view.

The first half does not strike me as religious. Just because a person knows God does not mean they believe in Him. Just recognize He exists, whatever He looks like to them. Some people think they know him and don't etc.

If they are a believer it does not mean they are good. As a spiritual woman with a relationship with Jesus, I believe we are all broken, and all sinners. No one person is more broken and more sinful than the other (to God no sin is greater than another). So to say we cannot be bad is false. We all fall short, that's where grace comes in. Good intentions, sure, but that's a human thing, not a believer thing.

It is easy only you have to at ease with paradox.
then the meaning reveal itself to you.

all the great poets are like that

:) :)

Well, it's written pretty poorly but it's trying to say a lot.

Basically, a god doesn't need a god. A human whose (good) actions are not influenced by a fear of God or society's rulings is being compared to God.

It is not atheism, it is heathenism. To me, it is certainly a religious poem as it is describing true, pure godliness as unadulterated by human interpretations of good and evil.