Ignoring there's a God?

Question

Yeahhh I'm going to ignore those smart-**** comments.

So. Think you're safe? Better off not thinking about it?

Answer 1

Your question is essentially a crass version of Pascal's wager, which was long ago refuted.

Also, I have to ask: which god? There are so many to believe in. How do you know you're believing in the right one?

Answer 2

A long time ago I thought that I did not believe in God.

Eventually something happened that made me realize that it was religion that I did not believe in, not God.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 3

Ignoring implies ignorance. Some think it is ignorant to believe in a God. I do not think my disbelief is ignorant. It is based on evidence and lack thereof. There is, in my estimation, no proof that God exists. Believing wholeheartedly in the Bible, in my opinion, is no different from believing wholeheartedly in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Answer 4

How can you be ignoring what it is that you don't believe in? Some people don't believe, and some people are too self absorbed to see anything other than themselves. If you believe and still ignore that there's a god, then it doesn't matter because he's all forgiving anyway and you can just decided on your death bed to repent all of your sins and still be allowed within the proverbial pearly gates.

Answer 5

Your anger is palpable.
I think about it all the time. Go to my profile and look at all the questions I've answered about God, faith, and atheism. Some of them have been choosen best answer by questioners I believed to be adversaries-in-faith.

What smart *** comments? The ones made in other questions, or the ones you expect here?
I suspect that if your faith in your own God was strong and immovable, you would not worry a whit about what we atheists think.

Answer 6

It doesn't matter what we think. All that matters is what we do. " To be, or not to be" that is the question. I prefer to exist in God's shadow, just like Satan. For I am the darkness that falls on the Earth, I am nothing but what you make of me. Choose wisely, there's no return from insanity, without faith in your creator.

Answer 7

Dear,

A simple argument at least has two sides, why closing your mind to see both sides and then to determine for yourself what is it you “choose” to believe.

Before you classify me a blasphemous and instigate your bedding to ignore me, read what I am saying to express to you and then doom it –should you chose to- as nonsense.

Now, from the viewpoints of those nonbelievers, the argument they state makes scene to a cretin extent because dear science did not until this moment unlocked the doors of knowledge to the extent that it can utterly explain the whole concepts of existence.

They do not consider taking a leap of faith as the path to self gratification, in contrast of that they redeem those who does as closed minded who cling to unseen and therefore nonexistent forces.

The other part of the argument, those who believe in the metaphysical be that as it may Jehovah, God, Jesus, Allah whatever it may be. Among themselves they can not live in harmony, within each faith conflicts and sectarianism.

The easiest part is to judge others my means of our own believes and impulses, the most difficult is to accept the “other” and embrace them and live harmoniously.


Regards,

KC

Answer 8

ignoring or concentrating - these are your states of mind. this does not change the existence or non existence of the god or the world or the absolute or the essence.

this is only your personal thinking.

Answer 9

No, proving to myself the reasons why I don't believe in a god.
And, shouldn't this question be in Religions and Spirituality?

Answer 10

Ignoring God doesn't make Him not exist. And he's much to big to get offended. He has a better plan.