Why We Believe In GodsFollow

When do we get to hear gods side of it?

I don't have the net capacity to watch something so long at the moment, but I believe I've seen a similar documentary before. Yeah, another example of how our brains are electro-bio-chemical machines. If you know much about science, I don't think you can take many church teachings and many parts of religious texts very seriously.

I think there's still lots of room for spirituality and metaphysics, but not for a big old man counting up dirty thoughts, or throwing thunderbolts around. God simply as a name of The Beginning, however it happened, and as the name of the energy the universe is comprised of, and we are temporarily self-aware coherant patterns in that energy. An athiest could call that simply semantics, and there is no need to call any of that God at all. A theist could take great delight in seeing the physical universe as all the same energy in the end, going through amazing patterns, and isn't it marvelous to be part of the whole?

Fix'd.

It's an hour long video! I don't suppose you'd care to accurately summarize?

I figure if there is some sentient being(s) responsible for the growth and evolution of our natural world in general and our species in particular, and that being wanted me worshiping it or carrying out my life in some particular way, then that Being will be able to let me know in a fairly clear and concise manner. If there is a god(s), but has chosen not to direct or guide us in our societal growth, then that god apparently doesn't care one way or another how I conduct my life - so, I can freely conduct it however I fell compelled to.

Historical, generational, societal, personal belies are powerful and crazy stuff.

I can honestly say that I don't care that much about God and I wish that more of the world would follow my example.

I'd say I believe in a higher something though I couldn't quantify what it is. I mean, religion as it is today is nothing more than a conglomeration of past religions who have evolved over the years, destroying old views and replacing them with their interpretation of what they deem acceptable by their then world views. The "God" of today that Christianity, or Muslims', or anyone else who so fervently fight to uphold their views didn't exist 100-5000-10,000-20,000 years ago as it does today. Back in ancient times there was the belief in gods of water, wind or love etc.

BUT, but there has always been the idea of a "higher" power.

To me that indicates that there has always been a feeling that there is something "more" has always been there in the very depths of the human condition. Religion, as it is, is the attempt of people to describe that feeling and put to ritual a way to express it. I believe in evolution, I believe that dinosaurs roamed the earth and I believe than man evolved from a lesser life form. However, I also have the strong feeling that there is a force that ushered that possibility into existence.

It's just to many variables to consider, of all the planets in all the galaxies in all the universe, of all the enzymes that could combine, of all the things that HAD to happen, they did, to combine to create life. Maybe I'm just not a analytical enough thinker, or to much of a dreamer but it just seems like to much of a lottery for that many things to line up to be where we are today.

I don't go to church, I don't subscribe to an organized religion, I have my own views.

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QFT.

Guilty as charged. I'd more than happy for an omnipotent being to appear before me in some form, but until then I just cannot look past the sheer lack of convincing evidence.

Just because I argue against your blind support of one side or the other doesn't necessarily mean I believe in the opposite. It simply means I don't think you know what you're talking about better than any other person.

And technically, there were no "multitides". In most versions, Mary Magdalene saw an Angel (or two) in an empty tomb. One spoke her name and she didn't recognize it as Jesus until it spoke. So yea, see what I mean?

Acts states that he ascended before the apostles (of which eleven remained, Matthias not yet having been chosen to replace Judas). Mark makes it even clearer that he ascended before the "eleven".

I don't think "multitudes" is a great word here.

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Edited, May 7th 2009 3:29pm by GwynapNud