Do you believe in God?

[Beanflicker]

I'm agnostic. I acknowledge that our universe is very complex and we probably aren't equipt with the brain power to comprehend these complicated issues. While I think all our religions are infantile and silly, there's no way I would discount the existence of a creator. I just don't have the confidence in our knowledge to do that. Nobody should.

I find Christianity to be offensively stupid and VAIN. Some magic man in the sky, who created all of us in his own image, is sitting up there helping people who pray to get the job they applied for or for some millionaire to win a baseball game. Shut the fuck up.

If people want to believe in fairy tales to make them feel at peace with the fact that you and everyone you love is going to die one day, go ahead. But there's no way to intellectualize it. It's absolute idiocy. It's "I'm gonna believe this because it sounds good and it's what I want to happen".

Truth be told, I'd love to believe in god and believe that we're all going to go to paradise and live with all our friends and relatives. I'd also love to believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. I'd love to believe that tomorrow I'm going to meet Jessica Alba and she's going to fly me out to her mansion in Hollywood and fuck my brains out every night.

The scenario of me fuckign Jessica Alba is more of a possibility than any of these rediculous religions being correct.

[Douglas]

I was raised in a Catholic home but I was never into it. Everybody in my family were always deep into religion except for me, total opposite.. as im getting older, im starting to think maybe I need a stronger faith, maybe I need to do more positive things in life.

How many of you believe in God and does praying work?

Absolutely.

While faith is not about what denomination a person is, I can tell you that the Catholics have a lot of practices that are not biblical (I too was raised in the Roman Catholic church). It's a lot of reciting mindless prayers and rituals and whatnot.

[killersheep]

I guess the question I would ask is why do you think you need more faith? What is it that you get out of that, that you couldn't get doing some volunteer work?

[killersheep]

This is as close as I get to religion right here.

[Andre]

I was raised in a Catholic home but I was never into it. Everybody in my family were always deep into religion except for me, total opposite.. as im getting older, im starting to think maybe I need a stronger faith, maybe I need to do more positive things in life.

How many of you believe in God and does praying work?

Absolutely.

While faith is not about what denomination a person is, I can tell you that the Catholics have a lot of practices that are not biblical (I too was raised in the Roman Catholic church). It's a lot of reciting mindless prayers and rituals and whatnot.

Its Miracle you are back!!!

[VictorCharlie]

God Shammgod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I always thought he was pretty over rated...oh wait sorry.

[Andre]

This is as close as I get to religion right here.

That physical complexity there gives me even more faith, because that is only the physical make up of only the fourth dimension compressing 3d things into matter and theres another 12 dimensions above and below us that make up the other 94.2% of what actually exists.
There is not one physicist left in the world today who still says I can only believe in what I can see or touch.
But theres a lot of normal people who still teach their kids that point of view in relation to what is and what isnt.
What people used to think of as 'nothing' the modern scientist and physicists have proven it is so much more than nothing, and by their measurements its about 94% more than something.
Ya have to love that.

[Gandalf]

Homosexuality is a sin in The Bible, it was illegal until the 1960's in the UK.

Homosexuality is not just sin, it is abomination to the LORD.

However, we all sin many times per day, so in the eyes of the God there are no differences between a person who sins once and a person who sins million times. If you transgressed just one law just one time - you are guilty of all charges forever. God is righteous without compromises.

Poppcock.

Offer proof of your Lord and I might listen more, but all you have is a book of intolerance and violence. The Bible is a book of fear, used to keep brainwashed pinched sour people under the thumb and keep them distrustful of anyone who says it is nonsense.

[Gandalf]

Why would the whole of what is everything, choose to descend down through the dimensions to compress itself into physical matter in search of its self, like we have?
Most of whats out there and in here is dark matter but we cant see that or measure it either but we know it is mostly everything.

The Ancient mediators, practitioners, craftsmen,men of God knew that.

Darkness within darkness the gateway to all mystery.
Written by Lao Tszu.

'As above so below'. Written by Thoth; who had knowledge the stars and planets worked the same as electrons and molecules.

Thousands of years later once man decided to think things out and lose his intuition to that mindset, he then was in the process of re learning, instead of knowing knowledge from the heart which also has a now time memory and a dna memory. Mankind eventually and not so long ago was at the stage of believing the world flat and the center of the Universe due to the change. We had to go along way backwards before we advanced again up our chosen route.

Because such a thing does not exist. There has been no overseer of what has over millenia become the modern human. The human form evolved primitive and naked just as millions of other species evolved here on earth and long, long after the solar system and planets themselves were formed. It had nothing to do with a spirituality or a divine maker. There is zero evidence for such a point of view.

Cosmology and physics explains the planets and the stars, evolution explains life on earth, spirituality doesn't really mean anything. Sure, some cultures believed in the divine, but to them it must have seemed divine as they had no rational explanation. Spirituality fades as science begins to explain.

Atheisism has only in recent decades begun to be tolerated by mainstream society. In some ways we are progressing spiritually as we are denying hocus pocus talk of Gods and creators. Humanity has the potential to evolve in terms of attitues. My only concern is that there are still too many religious fundamentalists and that they are dangerous and largely control much of the worlds resources and wealth.

These people are beyond any form of rationality. You don't need spirituality if you have a basic sense of common sense and right and wrong. Spirituality is a dose of fairy dust on top and it isn't necessary. Once dark matter is explained, science will move onto its next problem and on it goes. I am 99.9999% certain that none of it will be answered how religion or spirituality would like it to be answered as they don't know and get proven wrong at every turn. The odds are that this will continue and that science, as usual, will offer rational explanations of what exists around us.

[Spicoli]

I believe in many and some I have never even heard of from people who have never actually met them I think to say there is only one god strictly is as misguided and shallow as saying there is no one at all.

[Gandalf]

I believe in many and some I have never even heard of from people who have never actually met them I think to say there is only one god strictly is as misguided and shallow as saying there is no one at all.

Why is it misguided or shallow? Saying one only likes hot chicks is shallow, arguing that God doesn't exist is merely following all the available evidence. How is that misguided or shallow? Only someone who believes in something inherently illogical could suggest such a thing.

[VictorCharlie]

More importantly wtf is shallow about only liking hot chicks?

[IamInuit]

I believe in many and some I have never even heard of from people who have never actually met them I think to say there is only one god strictly is as misguided and shallow as saying there is no one at all.

Why is it misguided or shallow? Saying one only likes hot chicks is shallow, arguing that God doesn't exist is merely following all the available evidence. How is that misguided or shallow? Only someone who believes in something inherently illogical could suggest such a thing.

But you are arguing that the religious God does not exist or one that models him/it/herself after us. The one in religious text. That is fine but it does not logically follow that therefore there is nothing. Even Einstein said that some day Physics would discover God. So in that sense to dismiss all possibilities is shallow.

[Spicoli]

I believe in many and some I have never even heard of from people who have never actually met them I think to say there is only one god strictly is as misguided and shallow as saying there is no one at all.

Why is it misguided or shallow? Saying one only likes hot chicks is shallow, arguing that God doesn't exist is merely following all the available evidence. How is that misguided or shallow? Only someone who believes in something inherently illogical could suggest such a thing.

I think its said pre determined and over simplified, shallow. Of course we cannot show physical 'proof', as far as I know, that god walks among us. On either side its a belief often turned into a diatribe beating ditractors over the head. Religion, a god, is put into physical form...for some in the form of a friggin super hero...but its misguided to think not seeing means that there is nothing there. Now hot chicks, you know them when you see them, and if they are not around we as men adapt and make sense of the ones available. We are much more flexible with women than we are with religion and more easily excepting.

[VictorCharlie]

Shallow my ass