Do you or do you not believe in God and why?

Do You Believe in God?

  • Yes

    Votes: 12 46.2%
  • No

    Votes: 10 38.5%
  • Fence Sitting at the Moment

    Votes: 4 15.4%

  • Total voters
    26

petros

The Central Scrutinizer
Nov 21, 2008
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You are all accidents and I'm the only one with a purpose so get the f-ck out of my way or be exterminated like the meaningless bugs that you are.
 

Corduroy

Senate Member
Feb 9, 2011
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Myth. In reality you are mearly a slave for a cat.

My cat and I have a deal, a covenant if you will. I love her. She loves me back. I sustain her. She has certain commandments she must follow:

1. Thou shalt not scratch the couch
2. Thou shalt not eat thine Human's food
3. Thou shalt use the litter box. To pee in the plants is an abomination.

She sins often, and provokes my wrath. She shakes her angry paws at me, but I forgive her.

I don't know what kind of relationship that is. Ask the Abrahamic god.
 

damngrumpy

Executive Branch Member
Mar 16, 2005
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I believe the ancients needed to have something greater than themselves as a
guide post through life. Every society has had some spiritual leadership to of
course control and chain the masses to a belief system.
Today we are beyond that yes the human eye is complex the cell phone is too.
 

grainfedpraiboy

Electoral Member
Mar 15, 2009
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I believe for pretty much the same reasons you disbelieve. Such a complex universe, so elegant in design and 'accidental' integrations I choose not to believe it is random. And while there is no proof there is a God, there is also no proof there is not.

Science and religion (at least my religion) are not at odds or in contradiction or mutually exclusive. If you view it as such you are as narrow minded as the creationists.

I don't think you've thought this through. Take Rastafarians or Scientologists for example. Two recently made up religions now followed by hundreds of thousands of people who believe them passionately. By your logic, I am narrow minded for dismissing both of these religions as ludicrous or do only religions that are older or have millions of billions of followers deserve equal consideration with science in your opinion?

there is nothing fluky about nature.

There is nothing NOT "fluky" about nature. It is all about natural selection. From cancer to birth defects to mental retardation these are all natures attempts to keep improving us and trying different things. As an example, blue eyes randomly appeared about 8000 years ago in what is today Spain as a single mutation in a single person. While blue eyed people feel more pain they clearly reproduce successfully as the colour is an attractant passed to hundreds of millions today.
 

IdRatherBeSkiing

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May 28, 2007
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I don't think you've thought this through. Take Rastafarians or Scientologists for example. Two recently made up religions now followed by hundreds of thousands of people who believe them passionately. By your logic, I am narrow minded for dismissing both of these religions as ludicrous or do only religions that are older or have millions of billions of followers deserve equal consideration with science in your opinion?

First of all the framework of how you choose to worship/communicate with God is your own choosing. The question simply put was do I or do I not believe in God -- creator of the universe, supreme power/overseer/designer? I do. As for the religion part of it, I am not one to tell you or anybody else how or which God they worship or do not. I expect the same courtesy in return (from everybody -- not specifically or even you).

And I do not find my religion and my spirituality and science to be contradictory or mutually exclusive.
 

JLM

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Nov 27, 2008
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I believe the ancients needed to have something greater than themselves as a
guide post through life. Every society has had some spiritual leadership to of
course control and chain the masses to a belief system.
Today we are beyond that yes the human eye is complex the cell phone is too.

Yeah, I guess the cell phone is a God to the masses now a days. That and the Idiot box have to be the two worst inventions of the 20th century!