Who here believes in any religion? Can youtell me why? And if your like me, (athiest) why did you decide that?

Question

Please dont diss on my because of my opinions..
God wouldnt want you to anyways.

Answer 1

I think you might have better success if you asked this in the Religion section

Answer 2

Personally there are many reasons I believe in God. There is no way big bang caused the universe that is just silly. No people did not evolve from monkeys either. I figure that the best explination as to why we're here is because God put us here. Who is God? It is hard to say. It is hard to understand something above people. I know there is a God. I am a Christian. Why? Jesus is the only God I know to be real. There are no others that I know of. I know Jesus is real because he answers my prayer all the time though I am a dirty sinner and so undeserving of any love. God still loves me just that much more. Without God my life would have no purpose.

Answer 3

I was aetheist/agnostic until I was 24 (three years ago). I thought that maybe everyone was right about God in a small way, or that maybe there was one God but he represented himself in different ways according to how diffeent societies could receive him, or maybe even there was no God at all, but people were too insecure to acept that. It was when my first daughter was born that I began attending church for the primary reason of raising her with some morals. Also, witnessing her birth and development got me thinking about how there is no way that our lives, and everything we see around us could be complete random coincidence. That thought led me to believe that there must be a higher power with a purpose for us. I figured having her in Church wouldn't hurt. My wife and I began attending Northpoint Community Church in Alpharetta, GA (www.npcc.org) There, for the first time, I heard messages about God and Jesus that were truly relavent to my life. The most important thing to my faith that I learned is that we don't have to be perfect to be loved by God because there is no way we can ever accomplish that. I think that's a big hang up for non-believers and Christians alike. I never thought I would talk like this, but I have seen such a change in my life and I feel such a peace in my heart since I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior that I know He is real.

Answer 4

Let's start at the time when man has first learned to build fire. No one has any idea about god. Caveman goes to strike stone against stone and sparks fly the flame appears. He became smarter as years went by and more aware of his surroundings. Learned which animals to hunt and fruits to eat. Knows the best place to retire at night safe from deadly beasts. He understands the cycle of the seasons. That trees that "died" in winter will "come alive" in spring. In other words, he sees design all around him. At night he sees the stars and he starts to wonder(which is inevitable. Otherwise you wouldn't be here to be an atheist). Later he learned to ask questions. Very simple ones. "I made fire by rubbing stones. Who made the stones?". "Aah, there must be someone so powerful he can make all these things". Then the caveman proceeds to think that there is a being behind all that's around him. He sees effect and he asks about cause. He sees design and he asks creator.

In modern times, we see, explore, and understand the universe so deeply it cant be compared to what the caveman ever had. But fundamentally, in every science that we have--physics, chemistry, quantom mechanics, genetics---and mathematics we ALWAYS deal with laws of nature. Nuclear physics deals with laws of the atoms. Astronomy deals with laws of the stars. Everything is governed by law. Laws of Nature which definitely means design. Even the big-bang, supposedly the beginning of the universe, where every law of nature collapses, has a law: To "explode" at a certain point of infinite density. Why would that law even exist if there is no one who made it exist?

So I believe in a creator---a designer---of everything because there is just too much design in everywhere not to attribute it to a creator, the God who caused everything. The "unmoved mover" or "first cause" to borrow St. Thomas Aquinas' terms.

I believe in a creator/god not because I am absolutely certain there is one, but because all the evidence implicitly points to its existence. It is harder to find evidence that there is no creator/god than to find evidence that there is one. I hope this answers your question a bit.

Answer 5

I believe in the Religion of the Little Green Frog.

Below is the link to the theme song.

Answer 6

i personally believe religion ( especially christianity ) is the invention of Satan. Look at all the hate and evil committed in the name of it.