I am a Christian, but I am very tolerant of other religions and people just as Jesus taught. Many people get too wrapped up in what the southern baptists and religious right do when many are not walking the path. Many say they are christians to gain a good political advantage. I just want to know how a person could not look around and see how beatiful everything is and how much potential the human race has and still believe there is nothing out there?
2007-04-11 16:10:34 · 10 answers · asked by jbd89 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I feel a profound sense of awe when I contemplate the wonders of the universe and of nature. If you want to call that God, then fine. I just don't see it as a willful force that interacts with our lives.
2007-04-11 16:20:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very easily. I also look around and see that the world is riddled with flaws and wonder how a person could think that a "perfect" being could design such a thing.
For examply, why do gorillas have the part of their intenstines that absorbs vitamin B in front of the part that breaks it down for absorption? It's a sign of either cruelty or idiocy to biologically force corprophagy.
Another question, why is the design of the human being's skeleton so faulty, anyway? Even a mediocre engineer could tell you that the leg joints are placed far too inward to do anything but break down in a short period of time.
How about a non-biological question. Why is the moon drifting away from the Earth? After all, we need it to stay where it is. It slows the rotation down through the very tides we need to sustain weather patterns. Though it does force the evolve or become extinct issue, it does cause a slow extermination of species that's cruel and unusual punishment.
There are so many more example of unintelligent design out there. One must then ask, how can you believe in a godhead? And if so, how can you trust that godhead not to screw things up?
2007-04-11 23:33:47 · answer #2 · answered by Muffie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, after I know how things work, it gets even more beautiful.
I look at the stars at night, it looks awesome. When I read about it, and learn how stars are formed, and that i can see them from such a large distance, that I actually see them after they have already left a long time before that...it increases the beauty of it all. Knowledge doesn't make it less beautiful, on the contrary.
If a chef cooks a delicious meal, he knows all the ingredients, but it really doesn't change the taste. He knows the details and it still tastes amazing.
Beauty is no proof for a god. Because that would mean that ugliness was proof for 'no god'. Both statements are equaly silly. Now that we know how it works, thunder is still just as scary, amazing and beautiful as during those days that Thor created thunder.
2007-04-11 23:29:11 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, I believe in something. Just something more abstract and less well-defined than a deity.
The tao that can be told
Is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named
Is not the eternal Name.
The unnameable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
Of all particular things.
--Tao Te Ching
What I wonder often is, why is it that people's minds turn first to a deity? There's so many other possibilities.
2007-04-11 23:17:54 · answer #4 · answered by KC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Simple. There are natural explanations for everything you've described, so no need to invoke a deity.
Besides, it's trivially easy to disprove every single theistic formulation of a deity with one fairly simple proof (okay, simple if you have a background in computer science, psychology, and neuroscience... not so easy otherwise).
That leaves deism available, but since deism is different from atheism only in that deism terms the formative act 'deity' and atheism terms the formative act 'natural principles'... why keep the a priori?
2007-04-11 23:16:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I just want to know how a person could not look around and see how beautiful everything is and how much potential the human race has... and still believe in a magic sky fairy?
2007-04-11 23:16:08 · answer #6 · answered by HarryTikos 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't have a fog that blocks out all the bad crap that happens in this world.
I ask you, how can you believe in the Christian God after all the terrible things that have happened to the human race? The bad things far outweigh the good.
2007-04-12 02:12:09 · answer #7 · answered by God Fears Me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Indeed, this is the argument from personal incredulity: "I personally cannot understand how something happened, so it must be a god that did it". It says nothing about the thing you do not understand, but a lot about yourself.
2007-04-11 23:22:03 · answer #8 · answered by eldad9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, "Argument from incredulity" is nonsensical and academically dishonest.
2007-04-11 23:16:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
How I can not believe in a god? Simple, he never shown his face.
Oh, by the way, had you been to the staving village in Africa and say "oh wtf is god doing?"
2007-04-11 23:25:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋