That has seriously tempted you and caused you to consider believing in God?If yes,what was it.And why did you still decide against believing in God?
And if yes,what faith were you considering believing in?
2007-12-25 21:19:54 · 16 answers · asked by Maurice H 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There have been quite a few things that I cannot explain, that are suggestive of god. I just have problems with the religion thing, and that hodge-podge bible-thing. If anything, I often tell people I'm budist.
2007-12-25 21:32:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Honestly, and without all the flippant attitude I've been exhibiting tonight...
For me, the worst barrier to Christianity has been Christians. In my experience, Christians have been the most idiotically dogmatic people I've ever met. It's like if you buy into this religion, you have to throw logic, open-mindedness and intellectual rigor out the window.
To any person who wasn't willing to throw reality out the window, the Bible reads like a fantasy. But it could be a good allegory for bigger themes. Yet way too may Christians insist that the Bible is straight fact down to all the stupid little hang-ups that Fundies insist are God's definition for the right and wrong ways to live life.
The second issue is that Christianity promises a lot ("salvation") for the least amount of spiritual rigor (have you explored Buddhism? Nirvana is next to impossible), which is theoretically attractive, yet at the same time it stinks of a cheap trick/shortcut. In fact, repentance of a sin that harms another is assuredly a shortcut as it never undoes the harm that one has inflicted upon the other, which may be small, or on a mind-boggling scale. Yet repentance cures the sin. How is that fair?
For as impossible as Buddhism is, at least it doesn't always resort to the cop-out of "divine will". Christianity explains away just about every incongruency, conflict and observation of unfairness with the "unknowable nature of divine will" Seriously, that is a cop-out. If Christian god is this arbitrary, what is there to believe in?
(For as much as I've referenced Buddhism, no, I am not a Buddhist. I consider myself agnostic.)
2007-12-25 21:45:23 · answer #2 · answered by dtewsacrificial 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is part of being human to speculate on a higher power. I think about the miracle of this existence and all the wonderful plants and animals.
I am a defacto atheist, which means I am an agnostic who believes there is almost certainly no God and even if there is we cannot perceive him. I cannot prove there is no God so I'm not ruling it out entirely, however I feel it is wrong to take any action on behalf of God.
2007-12-25 21:45:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, that's the whole damn point my friend. There is nothing that has ever existed that proves the existence of God. While I agree it's quite impossible to disprove the existence of god, the evidence that exists which is admittedly incomplete, says it just isn't likely. It's not like I decided against believing, it's that I was not given enough reason (aside from the fear of punishment from god in the form of hell) to believe in the first place. It takes a weak mind to believe in something without examination, or any evidence. Any truly critical examination of the idea of god would naturally lead one to the conclusion that there is nothing, nothing at all, that would lead one to believe that god exists. It's to bad.
2007-12-25 21:27:11 · answer #4 · answered by abiogeek2 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was raised Presbyterian and went to church every Sunday, but decided when I was in my mid-teens that- based upon a lack of things done or said to prove the existence of something greater- I would spend my time elsewhere. Years later I'm spiritual, just not religious, and I've still never seen anything truly endearing about church or religious beliefs in general. I think of it as an exercise in futility.
2007-12-25 21:25:47 · answer #5 · answered by jung_son24 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have seen no evidence for the existence of gods. There isn't any. I've read all the books and they just confirm that gods were invented by humans. If you can provide some evidence, or better still proof, I'll listen but I don't think you can.
2007-12-25 21:29:06 · answer #6 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing has tempted me in believing in any gods.
2007-12-25 21:43:08 · answer #7 · answered by 雅威的烤面包机 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing.
History tells everything you ever need to make sure about the nonexistence of almighty and benevolent being.
I consider to believe in facts...and I do.
2007-12-25 21:24:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I already believe in Christianity.
2007-12-26 04:42:49 · answer #9 · answered by ruebratz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,I have never seen anything that may make me believe in Zeus,Thor or any other god or gods.
2007-12-25 21:50:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋