if so why and if not why
2006-11-01 18:51:35 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't believe in god, but I believe in living. I believe that what you give is what you get. By being a good person and helping others (not by charity, just by being nice, and being a friend if needed) you get good in return. I don't think it's a specific religion, but that's how I feel.
2006-11-01 18:56:54 · answer #1 · answered by Tiaan 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I do because I was raised Catholic and I look at all the love and beauty in the world and somehow I just know. I have also have things happen to me that I know God or someone from above have had happen to me that were just too much of a coincidence to explain. Look at Mother Theresa as a prime example of the love God creates. This woman was a devout Catholic and literally gave her life to help the homeless. Missionaries are usually Christian as well. I'm not saying that other religions are right or wrong but I think you have to be pretty egotistical to think there is nobody higher than you.
2006-11-01 18:57:20 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I don't believe in God. Why not? Let's begin with the Holy Evil Church - sorry Roman Catholic Church who murdered in excess of 1 million people to demonstrate God's love (and would still do so if they weren't stopped), who made Hitler look like an amateur, who is the refuge for pedophiles and is infallible. Give me a break - I would rather go to hell than consort with these maniacs. And let's not forget the blessed Robinson who preaches murder or Magee who espouses mass murder by 'nuking' Iran. God is the sickest idea I have heard of - as epitomized in his disciples. If he does exist then Nietzsche was right when he said: "The first and last Christian died on the Cross".
2006-11-01 19:42:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. First of all, which god? Every religion has at least one god (Hinduism has as many as you want). And we have had violent fighting between followers of different gods for the last 2000 or more years (birth of Christianity).
God is a creation of human's thinking process to explain the nature and the human societies. Human mind can not accept a vacuum vis-a-vis the answers to the questions about nature and its working; life on earth etc etc. So when you can't explain these, you substitute knowledge by belief (of almighty god as the creater / preserver / destroyer etc). Instead of persuing the study of nature and society using scientific methods, we take recourse to religion and god.
We love to use "Stork brought the baby" answer instead of explaining sexual reproduction process of having a baby. While for the children the first explanation may be OK ( I do not agree), imagine a 19 year old young bride still thinks that storks do the job.
Why do you really need a god? To enforce the tenets of religion by awe and fear of the almighty the god - otherwise it will not work.
Why enforce the tenets of religion? Because that is the way the rulers and its priests (of the past) wanted it to be (it was most advantageous to the rulers). Today, in the "democratic" world, no religion has any role to play as its tenets are replaced by the democratic code of conducts and its rule of law (which do not need a god to enforce).
I love nature as a marvel and because it is so wonderful. We must understand nature the correct way. I started truly appreciating the depths of knowledge that nature teaches only after I removed the concept of god from my understanding.
The concept of almighty god is also not acceptable logically as the following (well known) statement reveals: Can god create a stone so heavy that he can not lift it himself? Whether the answer is yes or no it violates his "almightiness".
I know why god and religion are required. I do not need them in this modern era.
2006-11-01 21:31:06 · answer #4 · answered by nodoublespeak 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes - Just as I have never seen the wind but know that it is there by the effect it has, I have witnessed the effect God has had on me. My life has changed - I am not the same person I used to be.
2006-11-01 18:59:44 · answer #5 · answered by Tony S 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As a Buddhist I know there is a supreme being or spiritual force out there, but it is not up to me to determine exactly what that is. For the sake of discussion, I just say God. And for the sake of sociology, common sense does not exist.
2006-11-01 18:54:54 · answer #6 · answered by sangheilizim 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't believe in god. I have no reason to believe he exists. I have never felt him, seen him, heard him or gotten any sign that he exists. On the contrary everything seems to indicate there is no such thing.
2006-11-01 19:27:20 · answer #7 · answered by undir 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Thank God for creating me in full
2006-11-01 18:56:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Maybe there is a prime creator way back on the time track, but, I'm not concerned about knowing. God, is a man made concept used to control............I don't go there or agree with that kind of crap.
2006-11-01 19:07:34 · answer #9 · answered by noel_1939 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Still in Search of GOD.
2006-11-01 18:56:53 · answer #10 · answered by senthil r 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋