If there wasn't a Higher Power, then why is it the majority of human beings believe in one?

Question

and why is it only a certain number of people are the so called intellgent ones(atheist) don't believe in a higher power.im not trying to put atheist down.
but from my point of veiw, atheist think everyone else is silly for believing in a higher power.but they are only the smart ones for not believing in it.

please correct me if im wrong.

well just relying on science doesn't help either.doctors use to tell women that labor pain was in their heads.so whos to say the sicence we follow now is the proper way

Answer 1

God put a need for worship in everyone's minds, and some just chose to ignore it. God is calling everyone, but not all will listen "many are called but few are chosen..."

Answer 2

You are not wrong.

Eyewitness testimony is accepted as evidence in every court but the court of the closed minded.

Closed minded people will always believe what they determine is right in their own minds. These are the modern day inquisitors, an ironic name for those whose closed, un-inquisitive, minds have caused people so much pain over the years.

These closed minded "atheist" ridiculers gained as much pleasure from hurting Galileo for his ideology as they gain from attacking the ideology of Christians today.

PS: Santa Clause is real. Santa Clause is a guy who dresses up in a red suit and hands presents out at Christmas time. Thousands of guys dress up that way and do that every year. I even know a Jewish guy who does a great job at it.

How can anyone see a guy in a red suit handing out presents and say "Santa Clause does not exist because every detail of the story I heard is not accurate."

Answer 3

You are wrong, and thank you for the opportunity to correct you.


The majority human beings DOES NOT believe in the Christian God, so, are the Christians wrong?

Saying that the majority of human beings believe in a Higher Power is meaningless, because there is no majority that believes in the same one. Which higher power is it?

Thousands of years ago, when everyone believed that the sun, the moon, the wind and the rain were gods, were they right? Were the very rare few who didn't believe it wrong?

The idea of beieving in a higher power has always existed, and every genreation looks back on the one before and considers them to have been wrong. After observing people make the same mistake over and over again througout history, atheists simply choose not to make that same mistake.

Answer 4

nicely if any of those billions if people would desire to show their techniques are outstanding we could ALL agree 'sure God is 'X' or 'Y' or 'Z'. the priority is, between ALL those people no one has ever ever been waiting to do certainly one of those element. Now why would that be do you think of??? P.S. did no longer maximum folk even have faith the earth substitute into flat too? we are all those people appropriate too in simple terms because of the fact they have been contained in maximum of the persons?

Answer 5

First, what you and a lot of 'atheists' (I'm assuming you're referring to non-Christian) say 'not smart', you're more describing people in denial. Not necessarily short in the mental area.
Secondly, there are a ton of other religions that are polygamous and some, like Buddhism, can be either a religion or a philosophy. Also, believing in a 'higher power(s)' is a cellular/genetic thing. There's a book about it called 'The God Gene' that discusses it. Keep reading. I'm sure you'll realize the majority of people believe in many things, even the belief in a 'mono deity' is divided and the Christian faith believes in the Trinity, on top of Satan being a powerful deity that is capable of giving God a hard time, and on top of that, the Catholics supposedly revere 'The Virgin' so much that there are many who believe she's added to the pantheon!
The majority are definitely not what Christian's think are mono theists.

Answer 6

Because there Is Only One True God!*
I heard (read) tonight on here, someone say that 'he thought he was intelligent and us Christians were stupid and brainless until He found God'. That really blessed me! His online handle is One Way. It blessed me for his sake, I wasn't thinking we were more intelligent...
Also in the Bible it says, hang on and I'll find it for 'ya..

Yes Jesus Loves the underdogs so to speak? And everyone else. It's just that he saw that the intelligent thought they were too intelligent to need to believe in Him.....

Luke 10:21
At that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.

And you know what I want to commend you on how you conducted this message, it was so graciously put. Thankyou It's a nice change.

Answer 7

Before organized religion came along, it is believed that early man worshipped the sun. Why don't they worship the sun anymore? Something more interesting came along and they decided to worship that instead. The "god" figure was invented because people had no other explanation for the origin of the universe and man's place in it. Today, I think most people choose to believe in a higher power because they fear death. They need to know that someone or something is waiting for them on the other side. Atheists have conquered this fear by accepting death as an inevitability.

Answer 8

Belief in a higher power began in pre-history in the form of what we now call myths. As science has explained the things myths used to explain, the need for these stories has deminished, but because belief in a higher power is so frought with threats of damnation, god's wrath, and human retribution, it has been all but compulsory until the past couple centuries. There are still cultures where worship of such an entity is compelled with threats: see many Islamic countries if you doubt what I am saying.

Incidentally, I am an agnostic theist: I believe in a god, but that doesn't prove a damned thing.

Answer 9

People believed for centuries that cerebral palsy and epilepsy were marks of spirit possession. This belief was universal. So everyone believed it, and everyone was mistaken. Shall I go on? Because there are thousands examples of beliefs that all humanity once shared in the pre-scientific age which we now know were ridiculous. And each time the persons who discovered and proved these errors were called impious, atheists, god-haters, irreligious. The Catholics nearly burned Galileo at the stake for claiming the earth revolved around the sun though the church said it didn't.

The world is full of people like you who think the truth is found in majority opinion. But in reality the majority of humanity is conformist, without curiosity, content to believe what they are told and uninterested in exploring further. You are clearly one of those. Your kind would have kept us in the caves for all eternity. Your kind would still have us treating infections with beads and rattles and anti-biotics would never have been invented. So feel free to live following the herd like the sheep that you are. When you are dead no one will know you lived. You will discover nothing, create nothing, cure nothing and improve nothing because you are content to know nothing and do nothing with the brain you have. Fine by me, as long as you stay out of the way.

Answer 10

I don't think I'm smarter or dumber than all theists. There are some deeply commited Christians who could run circles around me intellectually -- I wouldn't hold a candle to the Vatican's Observatory staff, for example.

I do think they are silly for holding such beliefs, yes. But so long as we can respectfully discuss our differences without one or the other seeking to force his beliefs, or lack thereof, I'd be pleased to stand in the shadow of such giants so that one day I might lift myself to stand on their shoulders.

However, being correct is not a majority decision. If all people but one believed that 1+1=3, and only one believed 1+1=2... would not the minority be correct and the majority wrong?

Answer 11

Your logic is way off. At one point there was a majority of people who believed that racial discrimination and slavery were good things. If the majority of people today were doing drugs, would you join them? You can get into a lot of trouble if you think that 'well since most people believe or do this, it must be the right thing.'. Be your own person.

All of that aside, if you were to have me believe in a higher power, which one would you suggest? There are literally thousands.