If an intelligent being created the universe and the Big Bang, what created the intelligent being? Saying a supernatural deity started all of this goes one or two steps further than the Big Bang theory, but unlike the Big Bang theory, there is no evidence or reason to support it.
Hehe, my first theological debate with my devout grandfather happened when I asked him 'If God made the world, where did God come from?'
The answer is most likely that men created God, and not the other way around.
Which, I might add, I'm not entirely opposed to because people often need to believe that we are here for a greater purpose than to live and die. Some of the principles of Christianity are decent ideals and worth striving for. But I can also pursue those ideals without reciting bogus lines and performing rituals like a zombie with a crowd of other brain-washed people.
To each his own... but what makes one crowd think that Baptism, or Lent, or Communion or Confession, ETC are the one and only TRUE way to worship their God appropriately?
When it comes down to it, Christianity is still a
polytheistic religion because there is no one, standard way to be a Christian, except that one must believe that Christ is the resurrected son of God. (The major initial break between Christianity and Catholicism)
I could be mistaken, but according to Catholicism, isn't Christianity blasphemy because you are worshiping a MAN who existed in the flesh, which is supposedly a sin?.... Yet they worship Mary, who was also a person? (Sorry... a SAINT!)
There are so many quagmires in the different religions it makes your head spin.