What is more wicked?

Question

To believe in god, despite evidence whatsoever.
or
Not to believe in god, despite plenty of misrecognized "evidence".

Along similar lines - what motivates your religious beliefs - it is not sheer wickedness as some on these boards think, is it?

Answer 1

What is more stupid, a person who worships a God they can't see or a person who is offended by a God they don't believe exists?"

Answer 2

Sheer wickedness is having a box of chocolates and not sharing with a friend.

Everything else is inconsequential and not important. All that thought and all that sweating over god, not god, one god, many gods and evidence of anything and nothing and people who just will not believe... doesn't that make you want to sit in the corner and have a chocolate bar and just be yourself and relax?

Find a box of chocolate, share it with a friend. You will find it is better than fretting about what everyone else thinks or does. It's not your problem... have a piece of chocolate.

Answer 3

I don't think either is really "wicked" so to say. But I think it's more...I don't know....pathetic (?) to believe in God despite evidence whatsoever. My religious beliefs are motivated by experience I've had with a Goddess and God (long story, and there wasn't drugs involved if that's what you're thinking), and I feel that there's evidence to support my religion. If I'm wrong, then so be it. If I'm right, then so be it. Whatever will be will be.

Answer 4

i don't get all these questions about god existing or not. everyone is going to believe what they are going to believe anyway. no matter what you are told by everyone else, you will still believe the way you have been. i wish i could prove to you beyond a shadow of a doubt that god is real, but it is just something you have know. i personally was raised southern baptist and noone could EVER convince me that he does not exist. i really feel sorry for anyone that does not believe in god, it is very dangerous not to because of the ultimate consequence you will end up paying for eternity. once you get to where your going, it will be sadly too late. i am very fearful of god and think everyone should be.

Answer 5

The answer to your first question really depends on the individual background although I would personally lean mor towards no believing.

What motivates My religious beliefs? Attempting to follow God's commandments and seeing the promised blessings come into my life.

Answer 6

Neither of your answers are correct... there is proof of God everywhere.

I remember being told this by my great grandmother and I was listening to a tape recording of some her stories and I came across this one in particular that I thought I would share.


Sometime around 1890 a man and the young woman who would soon become his wife were walking in a field when the man saw an ant on the ground. He stooped down, let the ant crawl onto his index finger, and held it up for his fiancée to behold. (This was in the days before anyone had heard of Albert Einstein, so when someone wanted to refer to the Greatest Scientific Mind in Human History, they referred to Isaac Newton.) The man and the woman looked at the ant, and then your great great grandfather spoke. "Tell Mr. Newton," he said, "to make me one of these."

Your great great grandfather was not a religious man. He was an intellectual, somewhat famous in his day. But he knew that the mysterious Creator of the universe -- whoever he was and wherever he was -- sometimes left bits of evidence for us to stumble across if we walked slowly enough and if we had our eyes open. Some of those bits of evidence are actually quite small; sometimes no larger than an ant.


There is proof of God everywhere. My great great grandfather was correct; you have to be willing to open your eyes to see it.

Answer 7

What motivates my beliefs?

It is a longing to please and be with Jesus. My belief was founded after several years of religious study, when the truth of the Bible was revealed to me through the fact that 1/3 of the entier book is based on prophecy. Specific, world changing events - like Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, the influence of Islam, etc.

No other religious book contains prophecy like the Bible.

Answer 8

Show me the UNrecognized (not misrecognized) evidence, and if it credible, I will believe in God. Until then, I don't see enough evidence to prove that a God exists.

Answer 9

AMEN Mike A! But the lost continue to look the other way and not notice the obvious of the true prophecies that have and continue to come true.

Answer 10

Its not what you believe.you could BELIEVE your Napoleon, its what you or.have you excepted the Great spirit of God into you?do you ask of it? do you listen for the answers that will come, do you try to do its will for you in your life?. THIS. is what matters. not what one stupidly believes.
hey. I believe. theirs little people under the floor boards in my home ha ha ha.
its real .this spirit is.BUT a person HAS to have faith and love for it to come into you and guide you.
YOU have to decide what you do spiritually.
The spirit is NOT in a book.nor is it in a building, it is in you.all you have to do is ask of it..having the spirit in you in not a religious matter.