How oft does it cross your mind that there's a good chance your wrong about thier not being a God?
2007-01-14 13:28:44 · 43 answers · asked by Maurice H 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As often as you wonder you might have been wrong about Santa.
2007-01-14 13:35:58 · answer #1 · answered by eri 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not at all. I actually find religious fanaticism like yours entertaining.
Why do you believe in God? Because someone told you he existed? Because you read it in a book that supposedly has gone for thousands of years and countless translations unchanged? Because you feel it is safer to believe than risk eternal damnation? Or is it because it is just easier to do what everyone else does than think and learn for yourself?
Or because you think your belief in God makes you a good person? Tell that to all the people burned alive during the Salem Witch Trials and The Inquisition, as well as to all the people molested by Catholic Preist.
The Church used to teach that the Earth was flat and stationary in space, that the suns and all of the heavens revolved around it. Psalms 93:1; 96:10; 104:5, 1Chronicles 16:30 and Ecclesiastes 1:4,5 speak of the (in some sense) "firm" and "established" position of the earth. Galileo said that it was in the sun that was stationary and in the Earth revolved around it. Galileo was ordered to stand trial on suspicion of heresy in 1633. The sentence of the Inquisition was in three essential parts:
Galileo was required to recant his heliocentric ideas; the idea that the Sun is stationary was condemned as "formally heretical".
He was ordered imprisoned; the sentence was later commuted to house arrest.
His offending Dialogue was banned; and in an action not announced at the trial and not enforced, publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future.
This could really go on and on. The fact is you believe what you want for your own reasons. I believe what I do for reasons to lengthy to go into here, and in fact it is pointless because most people will not listen to logic, fact, or reason when it comes to their religious beliefs.
2007-01-14 14:07:46 · answer #2 · answered by Onikazi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good chance? Never. I would rate the chance as being similar to the chance that a genie will pop out of the next lamp I rub. In other words it is sufficiently absurd that I never worry about it.
2007-01-14 13:52:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How oft does it cross your mind that there's a good chance _you're_ wrong about _there_ not being an Easter Bunny?
(Emphasis used to replace your typos.)
2007-01-14 13:32:56 · answer #4 · answered by Michael 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
As an agnostic, it crosses my mind rather frequently. I don't know the answer. The answer is, quite frankly, unknowable, which was, curiously enough, one of the names people used to call God.
Uncertainty is not as bad as you might think. It's very stimulating and encourages me to do a lot of reading and thinking.
By the way, you might want to look into the spelling of "their," and the difference between it and "there."
Just a suggestion.
Are you certain? Really certain?
2007-01-14 13:37:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let's suppose God exists.
If God is all loving and forgiving, we have no problem. If God is like the one in the Bible, I'll take my chances elsewhere.
How "oft" have you considered the opposite side of your question.
2007-01-14 13:33:36 · answer #6 · answered by neil s 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How "Oft"? Have you been reading seventeenth-century poetry, Maurice? I'm impressed!
It crosses my mind that there's a god a good deal less often than it crosses yours that there isn't, by the looks of things.
2007-01-14 13:32:18 · answer #7 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Not much.
I suppose the inverse of as many times a Christian has to tell themselves that all the evil in the world is all a part of God's plan.
2007-01-14 13:39:33 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Okay, I do believe in God, but I have to give you some advice:
LEARN HOW TO SPELL! HERE IS HOW YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS QUESTION!
So Atheists; how often?........
How often does it cross your mind that there's a good chance that you're wrong about there not being a God?
2007-01-14 13:33:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Occasionally, but never the one as described in the bible. The one I consider of existence is much different, and openly admits that he's flawed, and wonders the purpose of his own existence as well. That's the one I consider a possiblity, not the biblical one.
2007-01-14 13:37:41 · answer #10 · answered by Ghost Wolf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Atheist
2. Space after atheist
3. You're not your
4. Their
How oft does it cross your mind that there's a good chance you need to retake your English classes?
As for your question...
Never.
2007-01-14 13:31:58 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋