do you believe in god?

These two together make up most of my beliefs. Life is just chemistry that had billions of years to become so complex that it developed the ability to repeat itself. All power to you if you feel some need for continuation after death or justification for your life and errors, but I don't see the point.

Someone once told me that she thought of atheists as weak people for not being able to believe in something just because they can't see it, and I was completely taken aback by the utter wrongness of that statement. I don't ignore religion because it can't be proven, I disbelieve because at one point in my childhood I thought "Hey, that damn Easter Bunny character doesn't make any sense."

 

That's a pretty good way to look at it, from a logical standpoint, at least.

Also, just to clarify, I believe in the existance of a god just because I find it hard to believe that anyone/anything could just magically appear and evolve into the world/society we live in today; not because I feel the need to justify my actions, but because I believe someone created us, whether it be the christian god, or allah, or whatever the fuck god a person chooses to worship; but who cares, really?

Really, nobody truly knows for sure what happens when we die or whether there really is a god or not, regardless of how strongly a person may feel about it.

Like I said, I DO believe there is a god, whichever one it may be, but I could really care less because I am just gonna live the life I am comfortable/happy living and I'll worry about the afterlife when it gets here, because if our personal religion is wrong, and we're worshipping the wrong god, or there just isn't a god, then we all MAY be just wasting our time. Whatever.

 

Humans will never know whatmay come after death but we have some intersting ideas

 

I think the most important part is to try and do something as a person, rather than what religion you are, as... that is the main part that people forgot to do.

 

Yes.

 

I just dont see how not believing and going to church every sunday will mean you are going to hell to burn painfully for eternity.. that just doesnt make too much sense to me because alot of people are not grown up to know religion and just arnt brought up right.

We only live a really short life on earth. eternity is forever. and having to suffer for that long for having your own beliefs just doesnt make too much sense to me.

I believe that there is a God. Our bodys and brains just dont develop like this out of nowhere. I think about what would happen if i died, everyday. it runs through my mind alot. I put myself at risk all the time, going out driving, my skydiving hobby, etc. I think its a very interesting subject that needs to be discussed further. ill come back to this later and explaine more

 

Brahman. Jah. Jesus. Buddha. Allah. Rastafari. Hare Krishna.

All rivers lead to the ocean. Belief in one god or another is of no real consequence. Live your god through your actions. That is where we will be measured, in our actions, not which deity we choose. Energy or karma, it's all the same. Love is all you need; no such thing as constant supervision from some imaginary construct in the sky.

 

unsure. if god created us,who created god.

 

I think gaia is god of this earth. Nature will always own us humans and that's the god of this planet in a matter of speaking. No I don't believe in a god in terms of christianity or any human-religion. I'm more of a philosophy person than religion. I don't like organised control.

 

soundin' like some pagan friends of mine... this is an interesting way of thinking

 

Religion is the biggest bullshit story ever told, think about it, religion has actually convinced people, convinced people that theres an invicible man living in the sky and he watches everything you do and this invicible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do and if you do any of those ten things he has a special place full of fire and death and hatred and torture where he will send you for the rest of eternity til' the end of time............BUT HE LOVES YOU!!

The words of George Carlin.

 

Yeah i think there is a god or atleast some other power out there. Not too big on organized religion b/c i dont see how saying repetitive prayers over and over in a robotic manner is gonna help anything. I think you pray through your positive actions. But yeah, i deff. think there is a god.

 

"i believe in god - and i believe that god believes in claude - that's me...."

 

i believe in god, and i also believe that the bible is most likely a fabrication. if god really does exist, then he sure as hell can't fit in a book. but jesus is my boy.

 

God gives the best blowjobs.

 

Most people don't know what true religion really is. So many people are just... misunderstanding.

People are the most ignorant and beautiful, yet slightly twisted and disgusting things I've ever seen.

And I surely believe that most people aren't patient enough to feel what it really is and they'll never understand that joy because so many of them are jealous or act like they have extreme ADHD outbursts about it...

 

haha im diggin the responses on this, i like the conception of "god as energy", and then we gotta reanalyze forms of god... its way cool. i dont believe in god or gods per se, mostly because from my best analysis its just not reasonable or beneficial to me.

biology, physics, and the sciences are a great guess about existence, i think, though im sure its just a matter of time for a new paradigm to arise. there's probably something completely unbelievable going on all this time that we dont even know about. i mean, is it not fucking UNBELIEVABLE that we are on a chunk of round rock twirling around a HUMONGOUS ball of fire in the middle of a colossal expanse of darkness interspersed with other worlds? i cant get over that no matter how much i think about it... just looking at the sky, thinkin, 'dude... space is fucking right there'...

haha stoned, blabbing ....

hooray for NOT pushing religion on people, that shit is ridiculous.

anyways, the words of jubal harshaw (im sure a few of you know):

All names belong in the hat, Ben. Man is so built that he cannot imagine his own death. This leads to endless invention of religions. While this conviction by no means proves immortality to be a fact, questions generated by it are overwhelmingly important. The nature of life, how ego hooks into the body, the problem of ego itself and why each ego seems to be the center of the universe, the purpose of life, the purpose of the universe - these are paramount questions, Ben; they can never be trivial. Science hasn't answered them - and who am I to sneer at religions for trying, no matter how unconvincingly to me? Old Mumbo Jumbo may eat me yet; I can't rule him out because he owns no fancy cathedrals. Nor can I rule out one godstruck boy leading a sex cult in an upholstered attic; he might be the Messiah. The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together!

- Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein

 

The god of the Abrahamic religions is omnipotent and doesn't need be justified in ANYTHING, which conveniently leads to the idea that he can be the explanation for EVERYTHING, no questions asked.

Spirituality occupies a better place in my book than most popular religions. Not necessarily because religions along those lines make any more sense to me, but because in general they're a lot more open to interpretation and less full of themselves.

 

:lol: I was just watching that! Carlin is my hero.

 

thats practically what i was trying to say. but i agree 100%