Why do/don't you believe in god?

[Bodhi]

I don't experience a personal god in my daily life. Couldn't say I ever have. I believe there are natural explanations to all universal phenomenon

 

[Bodhi]

Arguments for a god make no sense to me

 

[VIBE]

So basically for all those who believe in god it's always this: "Because, God is so amazing! Who else created this!? Man/science has no answers!!! God did this!"

Let me ask though, for what reason?

Let's say there is a god, who did indeed create this beautiful earth w waters and beautiful vegetation. He placed animal life on earth, non-human. Why throw humans into the mix to pollute and destroy the earth? Who over fish populations of fish and over hunt populations of beasts?

Humans have done more damage than good. Why? He "knows" all this before it happens. God is fucked up. George Carlin was right, "if god was a woman, things wouldn't be so fucked up".

 

[BiblicalAtheist]

It is hard to define why one believes in god.

First they must define what god is to them. Each have a different impression of god, which is not bad, no two thought systems are the same. But the imprints words and experiences leave upon the mind are as unique as fingerprints, and those things shape our impressions of everything. So that right there is lengthy and personal, how to write all that for public eyes? Especially when scrutiny is needed.

Two how does one correlate the experiences in their life where god has definitely worked and then convey it to others? Whether you believe god is real or not or they, to them it was a reality. It is like trying to convince a schizophrenic there really is no one talking to them in their head. Yes there is.

 

[Bodhi]

I just want to know from a theist's point of view, where is the evidence for a god observable in our every day lives? How do theists KNOW of God (excluding the Bible, parents and/or parental figures and sunday sermons)?

 

[supaman4321]

I just want to know from a theist's point of view, where is the evidence for a god observable in our every day lives? How do theists KNOW of God (excluding the Bible, parents and/or parental figures and sunday sermons)?

Use logic and reasoning, when in history have you ever known of anything to spring fourth from nothing or to create itself, seems a lot more logical to believe in a Creator than to just think everything sprang fourth from nothing and for no reason. As amazing and as expansive as creation is and you think all that diversity just...happened?

 

[BlackxChild]

If you believe in a creator then you have to ask yourself who created that god... SOMETHING HAS TO COME FROM NOTHING!

I dont believe in god because I picked up a bible and I started reading it and its fuckin stupid.

 

[Jabu_Rule]

People saying something can't come from nothing like the something that is here now can't be better adapted or more complex then what came before. Even certain things that came before was greater or more well suited to its environment. ex: Dinosaurs vs Man (we would have won). There is no evidence or logical conclusion that a higher consciousness set everything to motion or exist outside of the Universe. The Universe exist without the need to ponder it's existence, unless you consider that one little portion of the universe called mankind which finds the need to question its own purpose.

 

[DreadsRIGHT]

I don't believe in god for the same reason i don't believe in the easter bunny, the tooth fairy, and santa claus.

At a certain time in human history, there wasn't the science we have today to explain natural disasters and events such as people being ill, death, thunder, rain etc. So people made up stories to compensate for that void, and at a time it was taken and understood as fact.

Now that we know not only how illness works, but how to cure it and why death happens, Not only how thunder and rain happens but how to PREDICT it; there is no place for god in todays society. Only cowards and slow people still believe.

 

[imm0rt4l]

I don't have any reason to believe in God other than what my parents told me and what I've read in a text that's thousands of years in the making(not to mention translated over several languages through time).

I don't deny that there may be a God, but I think that if there is a God, he's not as depicted in the bible. I can't say the one in the bible is a benevolent one, or at least not all the time. I kinda just laugh when I hear anyone or my family say "God is good, all the time"(no he fucking isn't lol).

I was raised Christian, but became an agnostic/atheist(fuck a label I'm just indifferent to religion) after deciding that I'd been lying to myself about feelings I was supposed to have after being "saved". Reminds me of this Langston Hughes short story "salvation".
http://www.courses.vcu.edu/ENG200-dwc/hughes.htm

 

[In Your Moms Room]

I do. Can't tell you why. I figure better to believe and there be nothing, then not believe and there be something .

 

[imm0rt4l]

I do. Can't tell you why. I figure better to believe and there be nothing, then not believe and there be something .

To be more specific, are you saying its better to be 'saved' so just in case you die and there is an afterlife, you don't go to hell? Because there is nothing innately wrong with believing that something exist when it doesn't make itself known only to later find it does exist. Moreover I think it's stupid that God would be such a fear monger, nothing benevolent about that.

 

[In Your Moms Room]

I don't live my life out of fear of God. Or of going to hell. I'm just saying, why not believe?

 

[young-king]

i know its more than a few of u pinkpeople with smarts n knowitall get in here n tell us why god is fake n what are your thoughts. stop being scared n show the world all of that knowledge u have mr pinkman

 

[VIBE]

I don't live my life out of fear of God. Or of going to hell. I'm just saying, why not believe?

Because maybe it's nonsense?

Just god in itself defeats itself, it contradicts itself and it's definition of god. It even contradicts all theists "logic" of the universe and creation.

There never was a creator, couldn't happen.

 

[JJ 1975]

I believe in God but not sure the bible is 100 percent accurate enough to live ones life by.

 

[alissowack]

Well JJ, if the only reason why people read the Bible as a depiction on how to live, then it's 0% accurate for no one can live the life that the Bible suggests people should live. It would take an intervention of some sort.

 

[LUClEN]

If I was never told god existed I would have NOTHING to base belief in his existence on. His theoretical existence only lives on because people will not let go of it.

I have found there is nothing concrete or absolutely factual to support god's existence.

Thus, I choose to do the logical thing: I do not presume more than I am entitled.

If there is no credible evidence to believe that god exists, I do not believe so until i find some.

 

[alissowack]

There is more to the truth than just the facts. Evidence can change the mind, but it can't change the heart. Eventually, the heart has to get involved in discovering the truth or it will never learn to trust and confide in it. There is a lot of truth out there in the hands of those you just don't trust.

 

[judahxulu]

psalms 14:1