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

Tecumsehsbones

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Like what? What purposed do you serve that other squid don't.
How is that different from your alleged purpose, since as I was taught Christianity, we cannot know the mind of God or comprehend his plan? So, accepting your dichotomy for the sake of argument, what's the real difference between having no purpose and being a chump who doesn't and can't understand his purpose?
 

JLM

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This forum has a lot of people who believe in god: conservatives, liberals, conspiracy theory loons, white supremacists. It's a belief that spans across other ideologies, and this forum in particular has more religious belief than you'd find in a lot of other places.

Hardly surprising, pretty well every civilization on earth, many of which started independently from others in separate parts of the world at different times believe in some kind of supernatural being or power, so I find it quite presumptuous to think they are all full of B.S.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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achieve to divinity ( English is poor lang to describe ) should be our purpose , isn't it ? so this is your problem not God
Tautological twaddle. That means reasoning that depends on wishful thinking, undefined terms, circular logic, and inconsistent thinking.
 

petros

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Hardly surprising, pretty well every civilization on earth, many of which started independently from others in separate parts of the world at different times believe in some kind of supernatural being or power, so I find it quite presumptuous to think they are all full of B.S.

Spanning two species of man....so far.
 

Twila

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Hardly surprising, pretty well every civilization on earth, many of which started independently from others in separate parts of the world at different times believe in some kind of supernatural being or power, so I find it quite presumptuous to think they are all full of B.S.

Humans do what humans do. There are similarities between animals of the same species that is irrespective of geographical location. It doesn't mean anything.

Humans make up answers when they don't understand things. It's a way to keep the brain from being anxious about not knowing.

the brain is hardwired to do this. When a human can't remember something they will lie. Not to deceive and not knowing they're lying, but to ease the mental discomfort of not knowing. It's called confabulation.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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nope , it's stranger and undefined for you because of Spiritual poverty , of course it has a clear way to achieve
No, it's undefined because people pushing it can't or won't define it consistently.

When faced with the simplest question, like "if Allah loves his people, why does he allow even the best and most faithful of them to suffer horribly," they always fall back on "you must not question the will of Allah."

Horse sh*t. If Allah exists, and gave us the ability to question Him, and then forbade us to use that ability, Allah is an imbecile.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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why don't you kill yourself and why don't you stop this purposeless life ? like your Nihilist parasites ?
Because I don't feel like it, and you, and your fellow believers, and your jihadis, and your terrorists, and the lot of you together can't do a damn thing about that.
 

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No, it's undefined because people pushing it can't or won't define it consistently.

When faced with the simplest question, like "if Allah loves his people, why does he allow even the best and most faithful of them to suffer horribly," they always fall back on "you must not question the will of Allah."

Horse sh*t. If Allah exists, and gave us the ability to question Him, and then forbade us to use that ability, Allah is an imbecile.
I Don't speak about Islam but as you said this is people Misunderstanding but God is perfect , In Islam your brain is your internal prophet and according to many Hadith and verses you should think at first then choose your way , even if you research about Allah and find him imbecile you shouldn't obey him ( of course your researchs should be complete )

Because I don't feel like it, and you, and your fellow believers, and your jihadis, and your terrorists, and the lot of you together can't do a damn thing about that.
but many of these nihilists do that you should join to this bandwagon
 

Tecumsehsbones

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I Don't speak about Islam but as you said this is people Misunderstanding but God is perfect , In Islam your brain is your internal prophet and according to many Hadith and verses you should think at first then choose your way , even if you research about Allah and find him imbecile you shouldn't obey him ( of course your researchs should be complete )


but many of these nihilists do that you should join to this bandwagon
I don't join the nihilist bandwagon for the same reason I don't join the Muslim bandwagon.