What Changes if there is no God or Gods?

[Sunstone]

If there was no god or gods, would that fact change anything such that you would know in this life that there was no god or gods?

Would you somehow sense that there was no god or gods? Would the world be any noticeably different than it is? Would there be any clue at all that there was no god or gods?

What think you?

 

[ChristineES]

Who knows? I was raised being taught by my mother that there is no God and that Jesus was just a "good man". I am not sure how it would be different, outside of the fact that there wouldn't be any of those great Southern Gospel songs I enjoy so well.

 

[LuisDantas]

there wouldn't be any of those great Southern Gospel songs I enjoy so well.

Or maybe they would just have slightly different lyrics?

Lack of God is no reason to lack Churches.

 

[Quintessence]

Depends on the god-concept.

If all of what I call "gods" ceased to exist, all of reality, be it known or unknown, seen or unseen, this-worldly or otherworldly, would also cease to exist. I wouldn't be around to be wondering about it.

 

[Sir Doom]

If there was no god or gods, would that fact change anything such that you would know in this life that there was no god or gods?

Nope. Only that it would present an opportunity.

Would you somehow sense that there was no god or gods?

I'd have to know for sure I suppose. I don't really sense gods as it is so i don't know if this applies to me, really.

Would the world be any noticeably different than it is?

I don't think so. People are still people. The world is still the world.

Would there be any clue at all that there was no god or gods?

I suppose I would just have some questions answered that previously weren't.

What think you?

Often and deeply.

 

[outhouse]

If there was no god or gods, would that fact change anything such that you would know in this life that there was no god or gods?

Would you somehow sense that there was no god or gods? Would the world be any noticeably different than it is? Would there be any clue at all that there was no god or gods?

What think you?

Life goes on just as it always has.

I think if he existed you would see changes. Not the other way around

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Life and the universe wouldn't make sense to me. I have tried to be an atheist and always found it lacking and depressing.

 

[SkylarHunter]

I would feel empty and life wouldn't make sense.

 

[StarryNightshade]

My life would go on just how it is; sans the belief in God(s).

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

My life would go on just how it is; sans the belief in God(s).

And you would transform into a pretty female superhero?

Edit: Oh, that's your sig. Lmao.

 

[StarryNightshade]

And you would transform into a pretty female superhero?

Edit: Oh, that's your sig. Lmao.

Haha!

 

[ruffen]

I would feel empty and life wouldn't make sense.

Why? In my experience, not believing in God does not make life meaningless. It only makes death meaningless.

 

[sandandfoam]

If there was no god or gods, would that fact change anything such that you would know in this life that there was no god or gods?

Would you somehow sense that there was no god or gods? Would the world be any noticeably different than it is? Would there be any clue at all that there was no god or gods?

What think you?

If it were a fact that there were no God I would expect the world to be different to the world I know now.

The Universe and God that I claim to know (everything else too) are no more than the products of my own mind. Yet when that bickering confusion that is my mind quietens down I am afterwards left with the sense that I am folded in something greater than the mind that perceives it.

Were this soft and great incomprehensible emptiness not there I do not suppose I could trick myself into perceiving it.

 

[atanu]

If there was no god or gods, would that fact change anything such that you would know in this life that there was no god or gods?

Would you somehow sense that there was no god or gods? Would the world be any noticeably different than it is? Would there be any clue at all that there was no god or gods?

What think you?

From Vedanta perspective, the seeing and knowing has origin in God alone. As per Vedanta: there is no seer but him. There is no knower but him.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

If there was no god or gods, would that fact change anything such that you would know in this life that there was no god or gods?

Would you somehow sense that there was no god or gods? Would the world be any noticeably different than it is? Would there be any clue at all that there was no god or gods?

What think you?

The complete absence of any evidence of the existence of god(s) hasn't yet had much of an impact on most of humanity's inborn need to project their ego outside of themselves and invent a god-like entity which reflects their personality and culture. I can't really see anything happening which would change this pattern.

 

[Amechania]

Would you somehow sense that there was no god or gods? Would the world be any noticeably different than it is? Would there be any clue at all that there was no god or gods?

What think you?

No different. There would still be people who claim experience of god(s) and those who don't, and the arguments would still be unsupportable either way.

 

[Nakosis]

If there was no god or gods, would that fact change anything such that you would know in this life that there was no god or gods?

Would you somehow sense that there was no god or gods? Would the world be any noticeably different than it is? Would there be any clue at all that there was no god or gods?

What think you?

I think you'd have to prove one way or another to make any difference. No proof, people are left to believe as they do now.

Actuality doesn't make a difference if you can't validate it.

 

[Sir Doom]

Why? In my experience, not believing in God does not make life meaningless. It only makes death meaningless.

I would say it doesn't even do that.

 

[Sir Doom]

I think you'd have to prove one way or another to make any difference. No proof, people are left to believe as they do now.

Actuality doesn't make a difference if you can't validate it.

I think the idea is to think about what it is that is different now because of God.

 

[Nakosis]

I think the idea is to think about what it is that is different now because of God.

With God someone can ask that question.
Without God, the question can't be asked.