The Neo Nerd
Well-Known Member
I don't need a god because i find meaning in other places.
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why you don't need God ?(anyone)
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chinu
chinu
More meaning than God ?
I used to be an agnostic before I became a Christian, from that I can tell you that I never felt as thought that I didn't need God, but simply that I wasn't sure that He (or She) existed.
Of course not. Why do you ask? Do you expect non-believers to worry about God?
Oh, that is something else entirely.
I do not believe in a God because I am not inclined to believe in the supernatural, I guess. Supernatural beliefs are ultimately just attaching names to things that we do not know or do not understand, and that does not appeal to me.
There are specific reasons for me to deny specifically creator Gods, including the Abrahamic one. But even that is really not very important at all. I happen to be an Apatheist besides an Atheist.
If they know how to deal with that belief in a healthy way, then sure, they should.
Understanding everyone else's belief is a pretty tall order. Are you sure that is necessary?
Going by the letter of what you are saying it is all but impossible to be a reasonable Atheist.
So you felt a longing to believe in God before becoming a Theist?
To repeat what many others have said: I don't believe in god or gods because the world behaves exactly as I would expect it to were there no gods. Stuff happens at random, supernatural miraculous events fail to occur on a regular basis.
The properties ascribed to gods, especially the Abrahamic one, are so incredibly human and petty in nature (what kind of intelligence capable of creating something on the scale of the universe and designing the minutiae of cell membranes and structures would really give a flying fornication about whether a guy likes girls or other guys? That's human emotion, not deific) that for as long as I have been capable of rational thought it has seemed to me that man invented his gods, not the other way around.
The properties ascribed to gods, especially the Abrahamic one, are so incredibly human and petty in nature (what kind of intelligence capable of creating something on the scale of the universe and designing the minutiae of cell membranes and structures would really give a flying fornication about whether a guy likes girls or other guys? That's human emotion, not deific) that for as long as I have been capable of rational thought it has seemed to me that man invented his gods, not the other way around.
The Neo Nerd
Well-Known Member
More meaning than the concept of a god.
Like.. the earlier conversation/derailment which was pretty interesting to you, and finally you started a thread about it.
Similarly.. regardless of you haven't seen a reason, But.. what made you to See reasons to believe in God ?
If I'm understanding your question right, I'd go with popularism. When so many people believe in something (whatever that is) I feel it behooves me to take a second look to determine my own thoughts on it, and a third/fourth/fifth look so I get a better handle on the world around me, the people in it, and how they think and behave.
Monk Of Reason
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I think the best answer to this question is with another question. Why don't you feel the need for magic to exist? I'm not necessarily equating religion or god to magic but the same principles apply.
I suppose in a way,. My friends close to where I lived were mostly Christians. They went to Church on Sundays and I never did (my family did not go). I felt different from them. My friends knew my mom was an atheist, it was no secret, I wasn't an atheist, I never really thought about it until I was a teenager.
But feeling different was no good reason to believe in God.
chinu
chinu
But who is the creator of this complete picture ? doesn't that come into your mind ?
chinu
chinu
And, what makes you to look after when so many people believe in God ? I think its your interest towards God, is it ?
I don't believe a god exists, because I just don't see any evidence for one.
When I first lost my faith, or at least 'fessed up to it, it did feel a little lonely inside my head for a little bit. But 7+ years later, I don't miss God, and any lingering doubt or desire has blown away. I've had good things and bad things happen to me in those intervening years. But I don't think belief in God would have changed things at all.
When I first lost my faith, or at least 'fessed up to it, it did feel a little lonely inside my head for a little bit. But 7+ years later, I don't miss God, and any lingering doubt or desire has blown away. I've had good things and bad things happen to me in those intervening years. But I don't think belief in God would have changed things at all.
maninthewilderness
optimistic skeptic
I don't believe that there is a God who loves us and cares about us.
What loving and caring God would make such a small part of the universe inhabitable by his children?
Why would a loving and caring God make resources, like food and drinkable water, so scarce?
Why would a loving and caring God instill natural urges in us and then command us to resist those same urges?
Why would a loving and caring God create disease, old age, poison, pest, blights, storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, fires, volcanoes?
If there is a God, it sounds like a real jerk!
What loving and caring God would make such a small part of the universe inhabitable by his children?
Why would a loving and caring God make resources, like food and drinkable water, so scarce?
Why would a loving and caring God instill natural urges in us and then command us to resist those same urges?
Why would a loving and caring God create disease, old age, poison, pest, blights, storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, fires, volcanoes?
If there is a God, it sounds like a real jerk!
psychoslice
Veteran Member
God ?, what a nightmare.
And, what makes you to look after when so many people believe in God ? I think its your interest towards God, is it ?
*chuckles*
We've had a version of this conversation before...
I don't have an interest in God, per se. l have an interest in human psychology. Hard to understand people without understanding Something of their beliefs. Politics interests me for much the same reason.
chinu
chinu
What will you get out of all this politics ? or what makes your interest towards this politics ?
