Do you think there is a god?

I really am on the fence on this one...

There is no proof that there is one, but there isnt proof that there isnt either.

anyone agree/disagree?

 

I don't know why people even care whether or not there's a god. Makes no difference to me at all. If the existence of god were proven or disproven as a scientific fact, it would make no difference in my life whatsoever, I'd still be the same person with the same life.

I think if human beings are the best god can create, I am soooooo not impressed.

 

i don't know and decided a long time ago it wasn't worth looking into. i'll know when i die how it all ends up. but i don't believe in the bible because it says to many contradictions and a book isn't proof to me of anything.

 

i agree with both of you.

 

i don't think there is a god

"there is no proof that god doesnt exist" is a common response to people trying to defend themselves for believing what they do... but really does it have any merit?

 

Wouldn't this thread be more appropriate in, maybe, the Existentialism thread. In any case, no, I do not beleive in a creator.

 

everything is so empty without a god, how can there be no higher being? it just doesnt make sense to me that we all exist here with nothing to put us here or look after us.

 

Define "god", and I'll give you an answer.

 

Dr. Lecter

And either is occam.
And occam thinks this is because we were not created from nothing in a biblical act.
But were created by a system called evolution. [ the best bet so far]
A system that MAY WELL BE a god's way of creating self aware beings.

Who is to say that we will not turn/evolve ourselves through reason.
Into the very type of being described by most as a 'god'

When we are what we wish to undestand.
Then we may understand god

Occam

 

you jsut answered the question 'why is there god'.

 

hmm...asking this question in an agnosticism and atheism forum, you'll probably just get "no" or "i don't know" considering i'm agnostic, i would have to say "i dont know" but about three years ago i would have told you of course there is! b/c i was grown up a brainwashed roman catholic, but then i started to actually think about it, and now i get confused b/c i a lot of the ideas of god's existance doesnt make sense to me but some do, and i really cant really KNOW or not, nobody can. some religious ppl will argue you can as long as you have faith, but why have faith? b/c someone told you to? and they just tell you to have faith b/c someone before had told them they should. but these thoughts conflict w/ my roots of being strongly religious when younger (i was an alter server, sang in the church choir, part of the youth group, went to church all the time, etc) but lately i've just kinda come to the conclusin that i'm really not going to know, but do i really need to know? i know right from wrong w/o guidlines to tell me what i should do or else i will be damned for eternity. so, i don't bother with the question anymore, b/c theres really no way to really know, so i basically just enjoy life, instead of wondering if i'll enjoy anything after life on earth is over

 

I think the facts that people like to belive it, that it is formulated so it cannot be proved either way, and this whole faith thing, go together to prove for all reasonable purposes that there is no god. Not in the chistian, jewish, or islamic sences anyhow.

 

sounds like you bleive it cause you want it to be true, not cause its plausible.

 

You see these faiths have been created by people who were having harsh lives in the desert, or were subject to slavery or were just in so much chaos (iam talking about the west in those days)... so you might not agree with them or may think that their version of this is wrong, but in fact they are not, because when they were being subjected to reign of tyranny, unlawfulness and great difficulties when it comes to survival... on the other side of the world people were enjoying their lives with knowledge, civilization and a rich culture...yet these people still believed there is a God (I am talking about the east in those days)

The fact is , we all have a sense of belonging to something, that belonging is so great because it is real!. There have been many cases were the supreme being himself came about in this world and said, "hey this is me! whats up" , so to think if God is real or not is actually ridiculous.

 

Well we seem to get on fine without one.

 

thats true....a lot of people do. in my opinion, these radical christians only beleive in god because they are too weak to think for themselves and they would rather be comforted under false pretenses than not to be comforted at all. thats all it is......they want to beleive that someone is looking after them. its interesting because i have pointed this out to someone that i knew and they were trying to brainwash me with all their physcobabble. i swear they are like robots. but none of it ever manages to sway my opinion. from what i have seen, religious people tend to be very hypocritiocal. its just hard for me to take hypocritical people seriously. so i dont think there is a god.

 

See there jedi?

Words of wisdom from such a young one!

 

what is that supposed to mean? i dont get it. whos jedi?

 

Bloody - So you don't think there is a God because Christians are hypocritical? I appreciate your ability to see through the misguided modern religions, but that statement is like saying I don't beleive in clouds because I don't like the rain.

Religions have tried very hard to make you beleive that they represent God and hold the keys to understand it. I think it is unwise to abandon the possibility of God based on their ignorance.

 

A young man who once accused me of being prejudice against young people.

You just keep right on thinking for yourself, BK.