Do you believe in God?

[Jeep Junkie]

It is a good and respectful question so please be nice. If you vote Yes, explain. If you vote No, explain. If you are not sure, still explain.

My vote is No, I don't believe in God. I belong to a super religious Muslim family and I myself used to be super religious. But not anymore. Because I have issues with the Prophet of Islam. He did things that I strongly object to. And God in the Quran is very human-like. He gets angry, he takes revenge, he holds grudge, he likes to be praised, he likes to show off, he takes pleasure in punishing, he boasts how he will punish with pain. Those are human qualities. It is like man created God in his own image. Imagine the creator of this mind boggling universe/multiverse gets angry when a tiny human on a tiny blue planet has sex with his girlfriend without marriage. The girl gives consent but it is still a sin. Waging wars and raping female captives(The Prophet did that to a female Jewish captive. Killed her husband during the day and slept with her that same night) is totally fine, but having a girlfriend is a sin So no thank you, I don't believe in God. I feel like the Universe and its laws have always been there in some shape and form and will always be there in some shape and form. We gave the name God to our ignorance.

By the way, my religion that I used to follow, wants me dead for saying all this and questioning

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[bd100]

We now live in the internet era. Type into a search box "evidence for god" followed by any field of science such as microbiology or astronomy. Or history, war battles, linguistics, archaeology, great pyramid, miracles, personal testimony, healings, dreams, paleontology, creation/evolution, etc. You'll find all kinds of opinions, personal stories, many disagreements, and some mind-blowing information.

Keep in mind a lot of stuff is outdated. In fact, a school text book takes something like ten years to come to market, and often holds stuff which was already obsolete years before it was written, and it is taught from for years after publication. So and so is clearly this and that, except more recently they discovered the other thing and now it's all up in the air, but they still teach it.

Also, most people cannot be "proven to belief in god", or much of anything else either. We don't like to change our minds, even in the face of evidence. It's a personal or emotional thing. How many times have you ever seen anyone say "Wow, I didn't know that. Hate it though I may, now I really have to change my opinion about this!" Much easier just to ignore or define god however you want.

Enjoy the journey, should you choose to take it!

 

[Jeep Junkie]

We now live in the internet era. Type into a search box "evidence for god" followed by any field of science such as microbiology or astronomy. Or history, war battles, linguistics, archaeology, great pyramid, miracles, personal testimony, healings, dreams, paleontology, creation/evolution, etc. You'll find all kinds of opinions, personal stories, many disagreements, and some mind-blowing information.

Keep in mind a lot of stuff is outdated. In fact, a school text book takes something like ten years to come to market, and often holds stuff which was already obsolete years before it was written, and it is taught from for years after publication. So and so is clearly this and that, except more recently they discovered the other thing and now it's all up in the air, but they still teach it.

Also, most people cannot be "proven to belief in god", or much of anything else either. We don't like to change our minds, even in the face of evidence. It's a personal or emotional thing. How many times have you ever seen anyone say "Wow, I didn't know that. Hate it though I may, now I really have to change my opinion about this!" Much easier just to ignore or define god however you want.

Enjoy the journey, should you choose to take it!

I do like to change my mind. That's why how I turned from a believer to an agnostic

 

[ForgottenTaco]

At least it’s not another discussion about oil.

 

[YGBSM392]

At least it’s not another discussion about oil.

God prefers Amsoil.

 

[whitechocolate]

i believe in mushrooms and LSD, one time i played Black Sabbath on 45speed and I saw god man

 

[Ratbert]

I do like to change my mind. That's why how I turned from a believer to an agnostic

If you lack a belief in deities then you're an atheist.

 

[Jeep Junkie]

If you lack a belief in deities then you're an atheist.

Not there yet. Atheism has become like a religion so I stay out of it.

 

[jadmt]

Yes and I am living proof my God does exist...God is great...and fortunately for me he favors fools and drunks...

 

[grimmjeeper]

God prefers Amsoil.

 

[Ratbert]

Not there yet. Atheism has become like a religion so I stay out of it.

Maybe you don't want to admit it, but if you lack a belief in deities then you're an atheist.

It's not a religion. It has nothing to do with anything beyond whether someone believes in deities or not.

Note that you can be an agnostic theist or an agnostic atheist. Saying you're an agnostic doesn't really specify which.

 

[Jeep Junkie]

Maybe you don't want to admit it, but if you lack a belief in deities then you're an atheist.

It's not a religion. It has nothing to do with anything beyond whether someone believes in deities or not.

Note that you can be an agnostic theist or an agnostic atheist. Saying you're an agnostic doesn't really specify which.

Agnostic atheist for now

 

[grimmjeeper]

Maybe you don't want to admit it, but if you lack a belief in deities then you're an atheist.

It's not a religion. It has nothing to do with anything beyond whether someone believes in deities or not.

Note that you can be an agnostic theist or an agnostic atheist. Saying you're an agnostic doesn't really specify which.

An atheist asserts that there is absolutely no god. And many of them are very religious in their attitudes. Much like vegans in their zealotry.

Agnostics believe there is no absolute proof yet one way or another.

And for all of the talk on the Internet (where anyone can say anything with no proof, yet people take it as proof), there really is no solid proof. Just anecdotes and assertion.

Anyone who asserts absolutely one thing or another is, to me, the one responsible for providing the evidence to back up the assertion.

I suppose that puts me in the agnostic camp. I won't assert anything except that there is a dramatic lack of hard proof to back up the blind faith that a vast majority of people in the world have in whatever it is they believe in. Plenty of anecdotes and feelings. But no incontrovertible proof.

I won't try to dissuade people from their beliefs. But I keep an open mind until someone shows up with real, actual evidence for anything.

 

[Jeep Junkie]

An atheist asserts that there is absolutely no god. And many of them are very religious in their attitudes. Much like vegans in their zealotry.

Agnostics believe there is no absolute proof yet one way or another.

And for all of the talk on the Internet (where anyone can say anything with no proof, yet people take it as proof), there really is no solid proof. Just anecdotes and assertion.

Anyone who asserts absolutely one thing or another is, to me, the one responsible for providing the evidence to back up the assertion.

I suppose that puts me in the agnostic camp. I won't assert anything except that there is a dramatic lack of hard proof to back up the blind faith that a vast majority of people in the world have in whatever it is they believe in. Plenty of anecdotes and feelings. But no incontrovertible proof.

I won't try to dissuade people from their beliefs. But I keep an open mind until someone shows up with real, actual evidence for anything.

Yes, atheists are very aggressive and they want to turn the whole world atheist. I don't like that, that is religious stuff. Same with the so-called spirituality these days, I consider spirituality the debris of religion

 

[AzCoronaDog]

If there is no God, why do we exist? And why are we the only species on the planet this evolved?
Even if you don't believe in God, having some form of moral compass is essential to a civilized society. If nothing else, living the Golden Rule is a form of religion.
And Atheism is a religion too, so there is no one that does not belong to some religion or another!

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