question for atheist? existence?

Question

just curious, how do you feel about believing in god outside of religion? i have my own thoughts on what god is. i dont believe he has much of anything to do with our lives. i dont think humans are special in the eyes of god cause i dont think he would even care if he even has a conscious mind to know we exist. so is it possible in your minds to have a force that drives existence outside of existence? and could that force be called god?

cool thanks for all the feed back. i dont believe or disbelieve in god. i really dont think its that important but i find it a interesting subject none the less. i think we should give it some thought thow, look for evidence if there is any.

Answer 1

I don't believe in any higher power or force. I can't get past the fact that if there were some force that drives existence then that would eliminate the concept of free-will. Free-will is actually my biggest problem with accepting a 'god.' I like to believe that I make my own decisions based on what is right for me and that no one can shape or change me or my future aside from myself. I do respect that view of yours quite a bit. The fact that you can accept there is a higher power but don't fall into the trap of believing what someone told you to believe is highly respectable to me.

Answer 2

Um, don't understand.

If you mean 'is it possible to believe in God without belonging to or even owing anything to any organised religion?' then I would say no. God has to take some kind of shape in your imagination, and like it or not you're gonna owe it to some religion or other. God is a fictional character invented by early humans as an explanation for why we are here. We now know better, but he's still interesting as a fictional character. You can't believe in God without thinking he's kinda like something or other, and chances are your idea of what he's like will owe something to whatever religion(s) you've been in contact with.

If you mean 'does something outside the universe drive the universe and is it god?' then I would also say no.

As an atheist I am not 'anti-religion but in favour of god'. God is a creation of religions, an invention of religious people, and not a real person. So I don't have to worry about believing in him even while I dislike religions, because I have no problem with there being no god.

Answer 3

i actual such as you, you are the 1st Christian ever to contemporary to me a logical clarification as to why they seem to be a Christian. yet you lack each and every of the mandatory suggestions. Scientists can clarify the place that particle got here from. there is an elementary way, it is demanding to describe, by skill of which the particle would desire to theoretically have come into existence. it could be impossible for me to describe right here, yet as you look sensible you may study Stephen Hawking's The Grand layout which addresses merely such an argument. of direction, this concept has no longer yet been shown, in spite of the shown fact that it does propose that there is the possibility that God does no longer exist. A scientist's and an atheist's default putting for any un-investigated state of affairs is they do no longer know. it is know reason to anticipate that the precise opposite is authentic. If i did no longer know the date could you anticipate the worldwide had ended? good judgment isn't a creation of guy. a million + a million = 2 formerly guy existed. We merely observed this and utilized it. Your argument elegantly explains why you at the instant are not an Atheist, yet you nevertheless have no reason to be a Christian. there are maximum of holes in Christianity it astounds me that anybody believes it! even with over a hundred and fifty contradictions interior the Bible, there is the easy count that an all understanding, all effective god could have written a greater useful e book. no count if it is authentic, God could know that there could be ethical issues interior the destiny thinking abortion, birth control, politics, euthanasia, conflict, etc... yet he chooses to ward off or make ambiguous his differences of surprising and incorrect? If God replaced into all understanding, why could he no longer write the Bible in distinctive languages so as that everybody would desire to appreciate quite than have pupils argue over the authentic meaning of historical words? do you recognize that the Bible condones slavery, rape, paedophilia, homicide and human sacrifice among different unthinkable evils? i'm a astonishing individual through fact i prefer to be, no longer through fact i'm fearful of hell. that's elementary for a six three hundred and sixty 5 days-previous to think of that the planet replaced into created by skill of a bearded guy interior the sky, yet do you particularly believe that it is the easy certainty? are you able to actual say you believe in an enchanted backyard, a rib-woman, a speaking snake, a forbidden apple, unicorns, giants and an un-ineffective spirit who's his very own father? nicely, ok then!

Answer 4

You're describing an entity that is either irrelevant or has so far departed from the common defintion of God so as to not meet the basic requirements.

What's more, the idea of a force outside of existence is not a provable hypothesis, and so is not ever testable. You might as well hypothesize 17 million forces outside of existence. If something cannot be tested for, it will never be disprovable, so you're basically still talking about something that is only available via faith, aka superstition.

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Answer 5

God and religion are not mutually exclusive, you can not have one without the other.
Some of my personal basic atheist principals:
*There is more to moral behavior than mindlessly following rules.
*Be especially sceptical of positive claims.
*If you want your life to have some sort of meaning, it's up to you to find it.
*Search for what is true, even if it makes you uncomfortable.
*Make the most of your life, as it's probably the only one you'll have.
*It's no good relying on some external power to change you; you must change yourself.
*Just because something's popular doesn't mean it's good.
*If you must assume something, assume something easy to test.
*Don't believe things just because you want them to be true.

Athiests either deny the existance of god or simply have a non belief in it. Therefore you cannot be atheist and think that there may still be some form of diety watching over you. If you believe such, you are a theist.

Answer 6

I am a believer...but I hope you do not mind that I say something about your question...


Not every religion finds their faith in the same God....many religions have more than 1 God. I know where I am spending my eternity....according to what I know and believe. I just pray that others will find faith as well. Many will not find it in what I have, but I hope and pray that everyone will find something that drives their existence and hopefully it is my God...if not I will still pray anyway :-)

Answer 7

There is no such thing as believing in god outside of religion. The very definition of religion requires the belief in a god or deity.

Answer 8

The idea of a personal God exclusive of religion (Theism) or of in an unknowable God who is beyond religion (Deism) is not without it's philosophical merits relative to the ideas posited by various religions. It's still a matter of Faith, though, and that's something I don't have.

Answer 9

I wouldn't call it God, because I associate that word too much with monotheistic Abrahamic religions. As for outside forces...who knows? But then I'm an agnostic...

Answer 10

religion IS the belief in god. you cant believe in god without being religious at the same time. God still doesn't exist.