Do you believe in a God?

[rareboy]

no.

Except as a valuable (and often destructive) intellectual construct that has propelled human civilization forward.

 

[Alnitak]

What about the second one.

Too many people talk and read like waste of papier maché, so?

Okay you caught me. I was two years old in June 1989. I vaguely remember that in the 90s a lot of people still called Russia the USSR.

 

[Pianist]

I used to.

Now? Absolutely not.

 

[umjreon88]

I nah believe in that. It's nice to think that there is a higher being observing us and guiding us through life but it is really just an idea that I would not delude myself into entertaining.

 

[zoltanspawn]

In ritual contemplation, yes. (Though not really the christian one, and I'm not prone to ritual contemplation, and when I am I'm just as likely to contemplate things atheistically.)

Rationally, I think god is a slim possibility.

Empirically, no.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

No. There have been hundreds/thousands of them throughout history. Which one would you pick to believe in? What makes one any more 'real' than another?

http://www.lowchensaustralia.com/names/gods.htm

Even the current most popular one (God/Jesus) is mostly plagiarized from earlier gods and religions.

Their only power is your belief in them... much like the monsters living under the bed/in the closet when you were a kid.

 

[eastofeden]

Yes...I do. I believe in God as "spirit" that is present (or not) in everyone and everything but I hate to say I believe in God because of what religion has done to it. I would rather feel God than define her/him/it so religion is not a useful tool for me.....

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

No.

But at least you answered your own thread for once. That's interesting.

 

[levenshulme31]

Absolutely not.

I did when I was very young due to being taken to catholic church (occasionally) and as I went to catholic schools. However I pretty much started doubting the veracity of the stories & questioning the dogma (If we all eat a bit of the actual Jesus at communion, how big was he? He always looks so thin on the cross! or Let me get this straight - a mass murderer can get into heaven as long as he confesses before he dies, but if I skip Church on Sunday and die before confession I'm straight to Hell for eternal torture? Seems unreasonable to me).

As the evidence shows. Even the most devout follower of a religion is 99.999% atheist as they believe in their deity but none of the thousands of others. We just go 1 god further.

Also, if all human knowledge and history was wiped out and we had to start again from scratch. Physics, maths, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, geography and cosmology would eventually come up with the same facts, figures, theories and answers. Any religions which were though up would be utterly unrecognisable from those which went before.

 

[xboxfan34]

I believe in a higher power and that death is not the end of the self. I don't believe in God as a guy sitting on a cloud high above the cosmos, rather I believe that God is a force of nature and not a person.

 

[LeicsDom]

no.

Except as a valuable (and often destructive) intellectual construct that has propelled human civilization forward.

Valuable? Intellectual? Nah, quite the opposite
Organised religion tries to anchor us int he middle ages forever.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

I think the Greek Gods were the most entertaining, and best to look at.

 

[Orlandude]

I believe in a power greater than myself but I abandoned organized religion many years ago.

 

[xboxfan34]

Absolutely not.

I did when I was very young due to being taken to catholic church (occasionally) and as I went to catholic schools. However I pretty much started doubting the veracity of the stories & questioning the dogma (If we all eat a bit of the actual Jesus at communion, how big was he? He always looks so thin on the cross! or Let me get this straight - a mass murderer can get into heaven as long as he confesses before he dies, but if I skip Church on Sunday and die before confession I'm straight to Hell for eternal torture? Seems unreasonable to me).

As the evidence shows. Even the most devout follower of a religion is 99.999% atheist as they believe in their deity but none of the thousands of others. We just go 1 god further.

Also, if all human knowledge and history was wiped out and we had to start again from scratch. Physics, maths, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, geography and cosmology would eventually come up with the same facts, figures, theories and answers. Any religions which were though up would be utterly unrecognisable from those which went before.

You see, what I believe is that all of those gods and deities are all the same thing, one big giant unified higher power that religions believe in with different rituals. I'm technically a Roman Catholic, but in name only. I am an agnostic believer.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

You see, what I believe is that all of those gods and deities are all the same thing, one big giant unified higher power that religions believe in with different rituals. I'm technically a Roman Catholic, but in name only. I am an agnostic believer.

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[ronboy]

I think the Greek Gods were the most entertaining, and best to look at.

And rumor has it that some of the male gods among them were well hung too!

 

[Sausy]

Yes. Born into a fairly dysfunctional Catholic family, guess in some ways I'll have some cultural Catholicism residue but not observant. I don't really know what God really is, but I do believe in something greater than us and that our essence, our soul if you wish, goes on after physical death. It's as arrogant to me to claim to know what God wants and there is only one way to God as it is to dismiss the possibility altogether. I am not a fan of organized religion though many good people are members of organized faiths... too many horrific things done in the game of God. If I'm wrong, and there's nothing... no harm done, life will just end. I don't think that's the case however, and the mysteries of existence are just something wondrous we eventually will discover for ourselves.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

And rumor has it that some of the male gods among them were well hung too!

Gay/bi, too !!! Woo hoo!!!

 

[belamyi]

Mozart's liturgical music is usually quite crappy (his Requiem may be his worst), but some pieces do not seem THAT bad..:

And women's fat, unshapely, naturally disproportionate bodies are greater art when they are shaped in this form:



OMG, that sounded so gay supremacist

 

[bankside]

As long as it's not that hideous Messiah from that Handel person.