does god exist?

it's impossible to spit at something intangible. but it's funny how so many people who don't believe in god have such hardons for rebeling against god.

 

so what's up with buddhists prayers, offering incense and having giant idols of buddha in buddhist temples? if you think there's never been a violent buddhist. you have obviously paid zero attention to how humans are. no religion can change mankind so drasticly that he would give up his ways completely.

 

i'm not surprised by your answer at all.

 

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so why do they place offerings before golden statues or wear prayer beads? there's too many varieties of martial arts in heavily buddhists nations for all buddhists to be peaceful people. tv has nothing to do with pointing out contradictory things about a religion. neither does a matt groening cartoon.

i cant clal any statue an idol, because not everyone makes offerings to every statue they see. i've listened to tibetan buddhists speak of multiple dieties too. though the idea of becoming enlightened through one's own self does fascinate me.

but don't you find it a bit far fetched that a man could come into this world via a lotus blossom? as far as ghandi goes, turns out he [personally believed that blacks were lesser humans than people of other races. he wrote on this in newspaper ediotorials for a south african newspaper. he refered to black people as kafirs as a matter of fact. also, just because someone abides by a certain philosophy or religion and harms another, hardly means they are doing it in the name of their teacher or god or whatever they hold in high esteem.

 

no,, i jus dont understand how ppl can believe in somthing so random and crazy , think about it a random dude created the earth in 7 days and shit its just not possible and all the evidence for evolution just ahhhh

 

That's a pretty narrow view of god you have there. What god exactly is differs a lot per religion, perhaps god exists but isn't all what is written down about him/her/it?

 

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i just don't see the point of making offerings to a statue if you don't atleast hold what the statue itself represents as sacred. so if buddhism has no dieties. why would tibetan buddhists speak of there being multiple ones? i'm not trolling, i'm asking you legitimate questions. i do repsect your opinoins though and thank you for making wholehearted attempts at answering (some of) them. but seriously, why burn incense and make offerings at a temple if you don't believe in something divine? why would buddhist monks pray? i'm having trouble understanding why godless people would even bother to pray at all.

here's a video of a buddhists prayer wheel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ7...&feature=PlayList&p=5F4EFD3B48C56797&index=52

so tell me, what exactly are they praying to?

 

If you understood anything about eastern religions?

Are you saying you do?

 

i'm fairly certain that buddhists believe in dieties, just they don't worship them.

and the lotus blossum is another term for the 7th chakra.

...and i don't think buddhist monks pray. they meditate instead.

don't think they make offerings either. just burn incense and hit a gong. (i've meditated at a buddhist temple a couple times)

 

I just think that a lot of people, most, never get the chance to choose to believe in god, they're taught from an age too young to question that God is real and they should believe. I think everyone should probably be taught about religion, but not taught to believe in religion.

 

I agree, being taught to believe isn't really believing anyway.

 

so what's up with these prayer flags ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOn_RJJ9uwE
and these prayer beads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GWS-rT3N9c

 

thai buddhists offerings ceremony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA9VyKqsvmM notice how their hands are in a prayer mudra?

 

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Not in any real religious sense, no. People may believe whatever they want but I draw the line when they start judging me.

As far as God is concerned, God is the anthropomorphism of what we do not understand.

 

I feel that simply by looking at the world around you, you can note that there had to have been some form of divine, creative control at some point in our existence. Everything in this world we percieve is too perfect. The intricacy and complexity of everything seems too perfect to have not been "designed" in some way. However, I feel that the Christian God and Bible and Jesus Christ along with all other religions throughout mankind are a bit blown out of proportion and are often simply characterized versions of people's collective beliefs. It's like they've put characters and stories behind all of the theories they've formed to explain the unexplainable. I don't like the idea of believing in a powerful, divine entity, now nor at any time, but I simply cannot ignore the perfected, seemingly designed, remarkable existence of and around us, there clearly had to be SOMETHING divine at some point. Though I don't believe any religion or scientific theory has scraped the surface of it yet. I'm very realistic, and often a strong supporter of modern science, but mankind is not and may not ever really be ready for the answer to this question. Do I believe in "God"?...No. I do believe that consciousness and mind are not merely a biproduct of the brain however. Scientific laws prove that matter cannot be created in the natural world, so either something unnatural occurred at some point to create all of this or existence really is a dream, existing only in our mind's ability to percieve it. This however would mean that our minds are just bi-products of the brain, like heat is a bi-product of an active engine, and when our brain perishes, so does our mind. I have a hard time believing this, and not because it's unpleasant, but because this world is so diverse, complex, intricate, functional, scheduled, structured, and in many way completely perfect.

 

How great is our God? He is AWESOME!

 

Which god is that?