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    Converting

    Proof. If I had to convert it would be Roman Catholicism, my religion of birth purely for its aesthetic qualities. Its actually a beautiful religion on the basis of it anyway.
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    God is dead...

    As somebody else stated I meant belief in God, to deny God's influence ois to deny history.
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    God is dead...

    For atheists everywhere and agnostics like me who reject God anyways what will feel our spiritual lives in the future when eventually religious doctrine will hopefully fade away? I tend to think of science as the new religion, I expect to see an upsurge in philosophical developments aswell.
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    Religion is the opium of the masses

    So you believe that everything needs to have some kind of objective status to be understand, a thing-ness? What is your being, we all have different interpetations and can never understand our own being so what should we do here? What about nothingness? We know there must be a nothingness but...
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    Religion is the opium of the masses

    Think of Kant's idea of an objective subjectivity as such, we use it to gain a certain element of objectivity which is hindered from being certain by our senses etc. Wel the concept of God is taken as one of these objective subjectivities in terms of it as a concept, God is considered as a...
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    Religion is the opium of the masses

    Not at all I was referring to the herd there, I have no personal need for God that is not to sau however based on the limits of my worldly perception that he does not exist.
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    Religion is the opium of the masses

    Well God requires a leap into the absurd but it is based on a psychological need usually among the 'herd' to use crude a crude Nietzschenism based on a need for comfort, love and safety, things Santa and unicorns dont offer!
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    Religion is the opium of the masses

    Well thats just it, as a concept that cannot be proved or disproved it is pointless to speculate, however if somebody did have say a Kiekegaardian leap of faith into the absurd then it would be quite reasonable for them to do so.
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    Religion is the opium of the masses

    I use the term agnostic in relation to the concept of God, I realise there is a concept of God and I reject it. However I get your point but since this concept exists and has always been such a large part of my upbringing it is not as easy to depart or dismiss it so easily as say the concept of...
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    Religion is the opium of the masses

    We cannot know God, we cannot comprehend him so whether he exists or not is generally judged by rational people to be based on faith and faith alone. In Kierkegaard's term to give in to the absurd. Well morals are dictated by social situations and institutions and this includes so called...
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    Religion is the opium of the masses

    Why does God have any effect on morals? I reject him because he has no bearing on this world. And agnosticism is a healthy reaction to a question which has no viable answer, a yes or a no.
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    Religion is the opium of the masses

    Well I think its possible that if God exists it is neccessary for us to rekject him to be free.
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    Does Consumption of Alcohol Prevent Spiritual Growth?

    Alcohol has always been associated with spiritual experience, perhaps Dionysian is better, most religions repress this feeling which leads to unhealthy cultures, for example the Western religious over dependance on reason.
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    Religion is the opium of the masses

    Hello I am a strict agnostic but I find atheists tend to not hassle me when I say that I am indifferent to whether god exists. Anybody read Sartre or Dostoevsky? 'If God is dead then all is permitted' Or Nietzsche's AntiChrist.
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    Hello, just interested

    Hello I am just dropping by. I am a Philosophy student interested a little in maybe Taoism or Buddhism but I am agnostic and indifferent to God so I won't be browsing any of the other forums. Hope that dosent offend anybody but just so you know.
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