Do you believe in god?

Believing in God is good. Just don't be religion overdosed person or extrimist.

LilDipper wrote

I've been an athiest for nearly 10 years now

LilDipper wrote

I am an ordained minister and I still perform interfaith weddings

Oh... That must be interesting.

RX14 wrote
LilDipper wrote

I've been an athiest for nearly 10 years now

LilDipper wrote

I am an ordained minister and I still perform interfaith weddings

Oh... That must be interesting.

It's led to a few interesting conversations, I've also performed more gay weddings then anything.

I do believe in God. I am not religious however, and would likely never consider it.

Honestly I Don't let it distract me from other issues in the world given the lack of evidence on both sidesresulting in a futile argument. Nonetheless from an aspect of community it is very beneficial for solving problemsj of the heart. Religion can be a plague to progress or it can be funding for the furure.

⌬⌬⌬ wrote

i believe in the infinite power of lorkhan. he created us in his glorious burning image and died for us

Never heard of him.

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Nope. Seems like just another thing to argue about. If it makes you happy and you keep to yourself, go for it. I might be a happier person if I was a believer, but I honestly just can't believe any of it.

Used to until maybe 5 years ago, I grew up around lots of religous family and family-friends so it just seemed natural but eventually it became harder and harder to believe.

Harry wrote

I feel as though something is more powerful than us all.. Something controls us all... I'm just not sure what.

My Mum is hella Christian and I was raised that way. Now that I've got older, I don't believe it all from when I was a kid.

I'm semi-Atheist but not fully because I believe in God, but I don't believe it is God who controls things.

mkay thanks

I think I'm in the same boat as you. It just seems unlikely we're the "most powerful life forms in the universe" and that other life forms can exist beyond our comprehension. Shit, their dimensional fabric could contain folded dimensions of dimensions or some crazy science like that. 
We don't have a solid definition of "god" so who is to say that time jumping, self repairing, multi-dimensional being didn't just poop us here and leave?

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I believe in God as the source of everything. However I don't believe that God has a plan for everyone, or that God is controlling everything.

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Harry wrote

I'm semi-Atheist but not fully because I believe in God, but I don't believe it is God who controls things.

mkay thanks

that sounds like a conflict between what "God" is and it's attributes, it's essence, and what It's supposed to be able of doing.
if the so called "god" you believe in, is not who controls things, then who does it? (if there is one) and,if there is... does "the one that controls things" control God itself?
if there isn't such a thing, as something that controls things, hence our freedom (capabilty of acting with no impediments) is absolute and irrevocable, which would lead us to think that we are little gods on our own...
I particularly like to state that I'm an agnostic, although I think there are rational reasons that may lead us to believe in if not "God" some kind of superior will, or undeniable "truth" behind us all.
although I can't prove it, h3h3

bpseudopod wrote

You ever heard of Spinoza?

Spinoza.... god "trapped" in material reality, being a substance that subsists on its own...
that's Materialism, or putting it aside, denial of freedom.
ka-ká, funny how Moeki resorted to relativism
no offense, but... if anyone's belief are true, and my belief is that yours is not... which one s the valid one?

>Relativism doesn't sustain itself, Boom
drops mic while saying "dawg"

GlassMoon wrote

I'm an atheist but everyone always thinks I'm religious because I'm highly interested in religion's effect on history and art. I've probably read the bible more than any of my Christian friends lol.

Can relate, agnostic doe

Yoko wrote
akiram13 wrote

I find it troubling that a lot of people do not have belief in GOD. Is anime or the virtual world more believable?

That's a bit of a weird comparison, the anime world isn't really something you believe in, but just a form of entertainment.

weird indeed, but not completely wrong...
if you choose to "believe" in anime, and accept it as part of your reality (cosmovision), whilst denying "God"(who/what, by the way hasn't been defined by akiram) the condition of real, you are most probably doing so because you have "a reason to believe": your senses.
you can watch anime, and other people do so, so it's not only in your head, is it?
and yes, that would eventually lead you to deny realities (realities not real to you, btw) that fail to fit in a material plane, and to accept matter (substance) as the last instance of existence, uncaused, and with intrinsic properties of absolute necessity for reality to be real.
hence, concepts such as "Mind" "Conscience" and eventually "Freedom" would be pure sh*t, perhaps society's constructs, perhaps not.

>if we are cause by the interactions of matter only, are we really the cause of our actions, thinkings, and feelings?
>the answer is no.

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I believe god exist but he/she probably is just spectating us without any sort of manual interference.

Yeah, I think there's something out there overseeing nature and physics and all. Dunno what it's like or if it even cares about human happiness, but I like to go out on a limb and think it does.

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