I don't know how old this thread is but I've been wanting to post a thread like this for a long time I really didn't have time to read all of it word by word but l read most of it I'll give my opinion and l hope someone still answer's

well first off all l think there is only 2 way's this world could end first there is no god and after wee die it will all finish and wee will be gone forever second is that there is god and there is hell and heaven and that wee are judged and then sent to hell or heaven so for this reason l think that if the first one is right then wee will die and so wee well be gone forever so wee will no longer exists to regret that wee wasted our life and there was no hell or heaven or god but if there is even a 1% chance that heaven exists a place where wee could have anything wee want, be free for ever never get bored and ... l think it is worth believing in it and in god because this useless life is really nothing in compare to that.

and also l think everyone is born as equal, some one totally disabled and someone like us are totally equal, when they are born but the difference is how they use what they have for example maybe for a poor guy who sits next to the street and begs for help, sharing what he get's with his little brother is the best good he could do and maybe for example for us becoming a great scientist, l don't know if you got what i said.

and also about kid's that die at a really young age they are surly for a purpose that god knows
maybe to make there parent's believe in something or think about something. god knows what!

also don't forget that it was religion that kept us up till today if there where no profit's every one would have stopped believing in god and they would have seen no reason in not having everything in this world for themselves and they would have started killing all the others.

also just as Mr.Shizzy said this life is a test and if religion would have said everything about god, us and this world then every one would have been good and it wasn't a test anymore if all of you knew god and everything about him you would have surly believed in him.

also about the fact that sick_demanted99 said that "I just don't like it when people sit back and believe that God is going to solve all their problems, instead of trying to help themselves first.  It's just like what the bible says, "God helps those who help themselves..." That right right there is confusing because I start thinking, "But if I'm helping myself, then I really don't need God, now do I...?" or "But if I'm helping myself, then God didn't really help me..."  the point in asking god for helping you in something is for the fact that even if you do everything that you have to for something you want to do there always are accidents and thing that could happen to you and you ask god to keep you away from these accident's for example if you want to get ready for a guitar concert wee'll then you practice make sure every thing's ok and do every thing but then for example you get a heart attack when you go on stage! or something like this and you so you trust god to keep you away for stuff like this!