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Tell me from your heart; please do not recite scriptures.

2006-09-25 02:46:20 · 27 answers · asked by *babydoll* 6 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

Believe it or not, there are agnostics and atheists who've read the bible. That's why I said "Please do not recite scriptures."

2006-09-25 02:53:27 · update #1

There is a separate question in my list for those of you who believe in God. Please answer that question instead of this one if you believe in God. Thank you.

2006-09-25 02:59:41 · update #2

27 answers

I see no need to believe in one.

I think that in the past cultures have created gods in their own images for a wide variety of reasons.
I see no personal need to do this and no reasonable evidence to suggest why a god would exist and not manifest itself more.
One of the most interesting features of many religeons is the lack of contact (personal) with deities. This can't be a coincidence.

From a logical point of view I would find it hard to accept that there could be only one God. This would imply a uniqueness that just does not exist on this scale anywhere else. So you are led to the issue of if not one God , then how many ? and how would you choose a god objectively ? The answer to me is that we inherit with our culture the religeous aspects that lead us to prefer the gods of our culture over others. This is a very subjective judgement.

However I do believe that it is good to have a core value system in a culture and as such this is where religeon provides answers.

I hope you get some interesting answers to this question !

2006-09-25 02:58:51 · answer #1 · answered by Andy 6 · 3 0

Because it's not just a belief in 'God', or no god at all. There have been countless religions in mankind's past, and I'm pretty sure I could get you to admit that you think those religions are wrong, so why would you be so narrow minded as to only look at this brief point in human history and be convinced you are right (assuming you do believe in God)?

The religions of today are so fundamental, requiring you to believe everything, or nothing, and they get so much wrong, especially about our past, and show so much of the contemporary cultural differences of when they were written (slavery, sexism) that it's impossible to believe they were inspired by anything truly divine. They are all too... human. The top two major religions, Islam and Christianity, both mandate that all non-believers will burn eternally in Hell. What kind of whackjob believes that, or, sees that and decides to ignore it, thinking that whoever came up with that nonsense had good judgement in other areas?

And, lacking evidence of any god, I'll have to echo an above poster, and refer to Occam's razor, the simplest explanation probably being the right one. I also don't believe in Santa, or the Easter Bunny. Parents tell you a lot of bogus stuff they think can help you... it's your job to figure out what's real.

2006-09-25 02:54:33 · answer #2 · answered by Michael 5 · 2 1

I just don't. I don't know how to explain it other than it doesn't feel right to me. When I was a part of the church I always felt awkward and hypocritical but since finding my Pagan path I feel at peace and more in tune with the world around me. I am less stressed, more confident and I find more beauty in the world than I ever did as a follower of the Christian god. I am a Pantheist, meaning I find "god" or life energy in all things and I try to honor, respect and preserve it to the best of my ability. Hope that answers your question.

2006-09-25 03:01:02 · answer #3 · answered by PaganPoetess 5 · 3 0

World War II - 62,000,000 dead
Mongol conquests - 30,000,000–60,000,000 dead
World War I - 15,000,000–66,000,000 dead
Vietnam War - 2,300,000–3,800,000 dead
Chinese Civil War - 1,300,000–6,100,000 dead
Atlantic slave trade - 30,000,000 - 200,000,000 dead
Democide of Native American population - 13,778,000 dead
Auschwitz, Nazi Germany - 1,100,000–1,400,000 dead
Smallpox - 300,000,000+ dead (in the 20th century alone)
Bubonic Plague - 300,000,000+ dead
Indian Ocean tsunami - 228,000–310,000 dead
Taiping Rebellion - 20,000,000–50,000,000 dead
Russian Civil War - 5,000,000–9,000,000 dead
China under Mao Zedong - 27,000,000–73,000,000 dead
War crimes of Imperial Japan - 5,964,000–30,000,000 dead
September 11 attacks - 3,000 dead before the morning was over
Japanese suicides during Battle of Okinawa - 80,000 dead

The entire history of this planet is absolutely littered with death, destruction, and war... tragedy after tragedy after tragedy after tragedy after tragedy. If God really exists, he's either (a) not doing a very good job, or (b) apparently an underachiever.

The reason I don't believe in the Christian God is because I know that, if I were him, I wouldn't just sit up there and watch millions and millions and millions and millions of people get slaughtered in one horrific event after the next. It's painful to believe that we have a deity up there who's actually letting all this stuff happen.

2006-09-25 02:57:49 · answer #4 · answered by . 7 · 2 1

I believe there is a "higher up" some thing of a higher power..not saying its human or once was human? Im not religious and i dont believe in worshiping someone that may just be a folklore. I guess some day when i pass on i will know. And i dont believe for one minute if "you dont believe in "god" you wont go to heaven" that is who evers belief how do they know for sure there is a "god"? and how do they know for sure if there is a "heaven" have they been there themselves to see this??? I doubt it!
Life is unexplainable as with death and i guess people need something to believe in in order to make sense of it.

2006-09-25 03:13:02 · answer #5 · answered by tess 5 · 1 0

I believe in God, just not the one you're talking about, the all-knowing, all-good, all-powerful guy in the sky.

I don't believe in that God because children get cancer. Because the world is full of evil that human beings had absolutely nothing to do with. Because I frankly see no evidence for it when I look at the world. And I don't trust what people tell me to believe; I trust what I see. And I don't see your God in any way, anywhere.

I see a creative power at work in the world. I see the growth of values. I see beauty. But I also see destruction, unbearable pain, and irretrievable loss. So that creative power for me, even though I call it God, is not a super-person governing the course of events.

2006-09-25 02:50:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4 2

Because the concept of God and religion serve only to blind people and make them easily controlled, that's why so many rulers put thier people under it, it's also why slave owners encouraged their slaves to believe in christianity.

2006-09-25 03:07:00 · answer #7 · answered by HolyAtheist 2 · 2 0

My highest value is my life, the best way to serve that life is through reason, not faith. Reason dictates - no God, there is no way around it. I wish there was an after life etc. But wishes don't make reality as far as we know. Faith is to sacrifice reason, thus sacrificing my highest value.

2006-09-25 03:14:17 · answer #8 · answered by Real Friend 6 · 1 0

The same reason you don't believe in Zeus or Odin. There's no evidence for any of them. I just disbelieve one less god than yourself. That should not be difficult to comprehend.

2006-09-25 02:55:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4 0

It's interesting that you have asked both sides of the same qs? Are you doing a paper or finding out the answer to your own question...?
:-)

2006-09-25 02:57:34 · answer #10 · answered by theedman22 3 · 1 0

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