Why do highly educated people who dont believe in magic and fairytale type of things beleive in god?

Question

Isn't it hard to believe that he has magical powers and all that? I was raised athiest so Its impossible for me to imagine believing in him but I just wish I can understand what is going through your minds.

Answer 1

Blessed are the Ori

Answer 2

It's a thing of faith. I was raised catholic...thus my name, which is Genesis (first book of the bible). People just want to believe so hard in God. He gives people a reason to live...but magic, sure it's unexplained like God but you don't have to live for magic, magic is an unexplained wonder that has no need for good. It can be good or bad (white or black) well then that's another religion isn't it? Wicca. Anyway, sorry I guess I haven't lived long enough to really answer your question.

Answer 3

I really like this question because it goes to the heart of a serious issue.
We portray the arabs as backwards crazy people along with north koreans etc. But I am watching TV and theres a thing about venomous snakes. Turns out these guys are handling snakes in a demonstration of how god will protect them from deadly serpents. a little exaggerated:
Some interesting statistics.
1991-1994 deaths from outdoor activities in Texas:

Auto deaths: 12,818
Drowning: 1317
HUMAN DEATHS FROM FIREARM HUNTING ACCIDENTS: 625
Lightning: 22
Venomous Spiders: 18
VENOMOUS SNAKES: 0

Source: Poisonous Snakes of Texas, Andrew H. Price, Texas Parks and Wildlife Press, 1998.

While the copperhead, cottonmouth and coral snake are venomous they aren't really "killers." Even the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake which is the number one killer in North America accounts for only an average of one fatality per year in Texas. These other three snakes (copperhead, cottonmouth and coral) combined produce fewer than one fatality per decade in Texas.

But the very idea of magical protection seems a little odd given how much we denigrate the magical thinking in other countries, or go on ad infinitum about islamofascism to use a recently coined american media invention designed to perpetuate fear which helps feed the war machine.

Answer 4

Here's the deal dude. You are athiest so you are convicted in your beliefs as I am (as a Christian).. In religion (in most all) there is a concept called "FAITH"...... That is the difference between magic and fairy tale... You see what I have faith in as an "Illusion" because you cannot understand the concept of "faith" if you weren't raised to. Know what I mean?

Hope I helped....

faith
–noun. --- belief that is not based on proof
-- belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion:
-- a system of religious belief:


mag·ic – noun 1. the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; legerdemain; conjuring: to pull a rabbit out of a hat by magic.

fairytale

noun
1. a story about fairies; told to amuse children
2. an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse

God – noun 1. the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.

Answer 5

I believe in God and have since I was 4. If you seriously think that you were created out of a few elements that "randomly" came together perfectly to make humans for an example. The chance of our bones being placed like they are, perfect is 1 out of 1000000000000000000000. And while making your body perfect he made the other 3 billion people's bodies DIFFERENT!!! How cool is it to know that God created you one of a kind unlike anybody else? Also, the bible talks about how the earth is round, hundred of years before Christopher Columbus. Jesus has been recorded in Roman books for his miracles, life, and most of all his brutal crucifixion. any more questions? email me

Answer 6

Because highly educated people know better than to believe that there is a God that gave them the knowledge, success and blessings that they have in their life now. Try to start thinking on the basics..Where d'you think you came from? You might say from your parents..and so on..How about where Adam and Eve came from? Did they just gave life to themselves? Try to look at everything around us..Specifically nature, mountains, oceans, sky, Earth, universe, animals? where did they came from? how did they came to be? Did they create themselves? Start reading from Gen. 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth."

Answer 7

The concept of an eternal god who has created everything we see and things we don't see begs questions in my mind even though I am a believer. Nevertheless, my brain says it is impossible for a 'creation' to create itself, therefore god.

Answer 8

I think it is because they have come to the conclusion that there is no other explanation. But I'm sure they all thought it out for themselves so they have a right to believe what they want.

Isn't it hard to believe everything " just happened " ?

Answer 9

The regulation of Conservation of Mass states that remember would be unable to be created nor destroyed. From this, we are able to logically end that the Universe has consistently been there. yet how does this make sense? by definition, the be conscious "supernatural" ability that it is going to be unable to be defined by organic regulations. For the enormous Bang to have got here approximately in accordance to the organic regulations we already be attentive to, it may might desire to be an limitless development of expansions and contractions, which might recommend there grew to become into in no way a commencing to it. it is the place theists make the errors of arguing from lack of information; simply by fact the beginning of the enormous Bang would be unable to be defined, God might desire to have carried out it. even nevertheless, thinking the actuality that there grew to become into "not something" (I positioned citation marks around it simply by fact it is not completely genuine) before the enormous Bang, in spite of led to it to take place grew to become into not certain by the regulations of the Universe, simply by fact it did not exist yet. consistent with probability, then, some thing might have come from "not something."

Answer 10

do you believe in magic and fairytale type things? i am a believer in god and his wonders i cant understand what goes through your mind not believing in a higher power