anyone ever wondered about god??

Question

is there really a god or is it all a bunch of proprganda

Answer 1

there is a god who created the humanbeings .if u read the bible, u too will kno

Answer 2

You decide. Do you really believe what we see is all there is in the universe? Do you really believe we are all just products of a chance cosmic accident with no real purpose or reason for existance and at our death we simply cease to exist? What a hopeless life of desparation that would be. Do you really believe that life exists in all its incredible complexities, that we are just now scratching the surface of understanding, and that it all works together in perfect harmony just by accident? We hear now of the possibility of Earth being hit by a giant asteroid and being half destroyed. If the Earth truly has been around for hundreds of millions of years, do you really believe the only reason that hasn't already happened with the billions of asteroids floating freely in space is just pure luck? Do you really believe the evolutionists when they tell us they found a tooth from ancient man and years later after DNA testing, they discover it was a pigs tooth? Do you really believe that the fact that the Earth is the perfect distance from the sun and contains an atmosphere that is composed of exactly the right quantity of the right elements to support human, animal and plant life on Earth and that so far this combination of conditions has not been found on any other planet is purely just accidental? To believe all of that and more would take more faith than I could ever muster. How about you?

Answer 3

If you have wondered you have experienced God as the Wonder. Wonder is more of a recognition of God's Glory. I feel in saying wondering, you are speaking about "thinking" which only leads to confusion. The mind must give meaning to all God's wonder. But the meaning that the mind gives to wonder changes it into virtually "Nothing".

Answer 4

How ready is God to answer our prayers?
How often does He listen?
Does He really care about someone as insignificant as me?
What is the true nature of God?
Does God talk back?
How does God talk back?
What sort of body does God have?
What does He really look like?

I've asked this and more, and finally, I decided to take a deep breath, dig down deep for true sincerity, and ask Him myself.

Answer 5

The latter.

Religion showcases the fact that human imagination is unlimited. Clearly evolution has brought humans a survival benefit of being able to think that practically anything is "normal." The kidnap victim comes to love the kidnapper. The slave comes to think that his slavery is "normal." And the religious person comes to think that his religion is correct and all the others afe false.

I know that atheists like me are in the clear minority. Like Sam Harris said - atheism isn't a creed, philosophy or ideology - it's just a refusal to deny the obvious

Answer 6

Nobody can prove any gods, much less a specific god, exist. People believe in specific gods because of indoctrination from an early age, tradition, hallucinations, fear of torture (for gods sadistic enough to threaten it) and other similarly illogical reasons. But no gods exist in reality; these are all stories, created for people who were scared of the world long before we understood it. Now we have no more reason for these superstitions.

What's the harm in religion:
http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/harm.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_religion

How harmful the bible is in particular:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/
http://www.evilbible.com/

The origin of the Jesus stories:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen048.html
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa2.htm
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/jesus.html

How illogical religion is in general:
http://godisimaginary.com/
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/

The alternative:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/
http://www.infidels.org/
http://www.positiveatheism.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism


Read The God Delusion, understand religion and be freed from it forever.

Answer 7

Do Buddhists believe in a creator god?

No, we do not. There are several logical reasons for this. The Buddha, like modern scientists, sociologists and psychologists, believed that religious ideas and especially the god idea have their origins in fear. The Buddha says:

"Gripped by fear men go to sacred mountains, sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines." *Dhammpada 188

Primitive man found himself in a dangerous and hostile world, the fear of wild animals, of not being able to find enough food, of injury or disease, and of natural phenomena like thunder, lightning and volcanoes was constantly with him. Finding no security, he created the idea of god in order to give him comfort in good times, courage in times of danger and consolation when things went wrong. To this day, you will notice that people become more religious at times of crises, you will hear them say that the belief in a god gives them the strength they need to deal with life. You will hear them explain that they believe in god because they prayed in time of need and their prayer was answered. All this seems to support the Buddha’s teaching that the god-idea is a response to fear and frustration. The Buddha taught us to try to understand our fears, to lessen our desires and to calmly and courageously accept the things we cannot change. He replaced fear, not with irrational belief but with rational understanding.

The second reason the Buddha did not believe in a creator god is because there does not seem to be any evidence to support this idea. There are numerous religions, all claiming that they alone have god’s words preserved in their holy book, that they alone understand god’s nature, that their god exists and that the gods of other religions do not. Some claim that god is masculine, some that she is feminine and others that it is neuter. They are all satisfied that there is ample evidence to prove the existence of their god but they laugh in disbelief at the evidence other religions use to prove the existence of another god. It is not surprising that with so many different religions spending so many centuries trying to prove the existence of their gods that still no real, concrete, substantial or irrefutable evidence has been found. Buddhists suspend judgement until such evidence is forthcoming.

The third reason the Buddha did not believe in a creator god is that the belief is not necessary. Some claim that the belief in a god is necessary in order to explain the origin of the universe. But this is not so. Science has very convincingly explained how the universe came into being without having to introduce the god-idea. Some claim that belief in god is necessary to have a happy, meaningful life. Again we can see that this is not so. There are millions of Atheists, free-thinkers and Buddhists, who live useful, happy and meaningful lives without belief in a creator god. Some claim that belief in god’s power is necessary because humans, being weak, do not have the strength to help themselves. Once again, the evidence indicates the opposite. One often hears of people who have overcome great disabilities and handicaps, enormous odds and difficulties through their own inner resources, through their own efforts and without belief in a god. Some claim that god is necessary in order to give man salvation. But this argument only holds good if you accept the theological concept of salvation and Buddhists do not accept such a concept. Based on his own experience, the Buddha saw that each human being had the capacity to purify the mind, develop infinite love and compassion and perfect understanding. He shifted attention from the heavens to the heart and encouraged us to find solutions to our problems through self-understanding.

But if there is no creator god how did the universe get here?

All religions have myths and stories which attempt to answer this question. In ancient times, when man simply did not know, such myths were adequate, but in the 20th century, in the age of physics, astronomy and geology, such myths have been superseded by scientific fact. Science has explained the origin of the universe without recourse to the god-idea.

Answer 8

Yes, objective truth does exist.

Dreamstuff, stop forcing your beliefs on everyone else. Nobody wants to read "The God Delusion".

Stop providing links and start thinking for yourself. You are brainwashed by everything you read.

Answer 9

what would be the difference. maybe the bunch of them is as well real as really useless?

Answer 10

It's just wishful thinking. People would like to believe there's a big daddy in the sky looking out for them rather than that there's only the mean, scary world they see before their eyes.