2007-03-03 04:40:48 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No... I live a good, moral life... if there is a god, the rules would not change for me. There are plenty of people who do believe in god that make bad choices in how they live...
and plenty of people who don't believe in god that make bad choices...
2007-03-03 04:42:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ever since I came to know that God really exists I have lived differently.
2007-03-03 04:43:19 · answer #2 · answered by Angelz 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most atheists I know, like myself, would be indistinguishable from theists in the morality and ethics we adhere to. The difference is we think social standards like making murder illegal evolve naturally in societies absent any divine revelation that getting stabbed or hit with a club hurts.
I'm probably more conservative in my behavior than some athesits because I'm convinced of the heathfulness, both emotional and physical of some of the "personal purity" standards that others would call prudish or puritanical. But the appearance of a divine being wouldn't alter my behavior much. Though there's a lot I'd love to know its pretty apparent that such a being isn't coming round to anyone's house for coffee and a chat, and has been quite content to watch humanity wallow in ignorance and find its own way to an understanding of ourselves and our universe. So I guess if I knew for sure there was a God, I would be more certain than ever, given that God's behavior to date, that it is irrelevant to our lives, beyond our reach and understanding, and is at most no more than an observer of what we do on this unremarkable piece of debris in all the vast multi-verse.
And to the many individuals of questionable education who say things like "You can't see air." The presence of air is testable and verifiable. The presence of your imaginary playmate is not. Your beliefs are convictions without any testable evidence and based on mere assertion, and that is the key difference between faith and science. I can test rock and fossil layers and determine they are millions of years old with verifiable tests and know no human fossil appears in ancient rock layers with the oldest creatures and so Genesis is a fable. I cannot test your claims of an invisible and undetectable entity that resides outside of space and time and yet is omnipresent since the rule you've set is "not detectable", which is for purposes of verification no different than if you were hallucinating and no such being exists. Yet you will blame me for disbelieving in an entity which you assert from the start is not detectable in any way that either of us can concoct, so there's no way to know if you aren't simply lying for your own advantage, is there?
And one more thing for the cavemen here: the sun neither rises nor sets. The Earth rotates, as we've known for several centuries and can verify with tests. So try to keep up.
2007-03-03 05:05:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I DO know that God really exists, and I DO live differently.
2007-03-03 04:42:59 · answer #4 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know God really exists, so no. Why do you have to question? I live the way I think God wants me to live.
2007-03-03 04:43:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look around you, there is no question as to whether God exists, although we can't see Him, we know. Can you see air? No, but you know it's there. There are miracles and wonders of God all around us, watch the sunrise or set sometime. How can you wonder after that? So you should live the way He wants you to live. Always ask yourself, do you want to be caught doing what youre doing when Jesus returns?
2007-03-03 04:54:44 · answer #6 · answered by mom of 4 boys 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Either way I would still act the same way. It all comes down to morals. If a person acts differently after they find out that god exists then they changed their ways for their own gains(of course there are many exceptions).
2007-03-03 04:48:05 · answer #7 · answered by Y001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am living with the full knowledge that God exists and is with me all the time.
2007-03-03 04:45:11 · answer #8 · answered by Swamy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on which God. If a loving, just God exists and has good plans for humanity, then I would be happy.
Thing is, I don't believe such a God exists and I am miserable.
2007-03-03 04:53:34 · answer #9 · answered by Zeek 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would depend on what God existed and what they wanted. But I think I live okay right now without religion.
2007-03-03 04:49:21 · answer #10 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. If the god depicted in the Bible actually existed, all that would change would be that I would believe that it existed. I wouldn't want to have anything to do with what it said, or what it wanted.
2007-03-03 04:46:06 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋