2007-12-26 21:33:22 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Take one measure of fear.
A dessert-spoon of anticipated reward.
Add a cup of wishful thinking
Stir well and slowly pour in a powerful barrel of childhood indoctrination.
Place in a medium oven for a few years and you have a rock-hard belief system that is so difficult to swallow.
2007-12-26 21:44:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I beleive that "God" is an excuse for people not to take responsibility for their own thoughts/actions.
"Imshala"
"God Willing"
"Repent and you will be forgiven"
If you do something really bad - get an imaginary friend to tell you it all OK really. They you can carry on your evil with a clear consience.
Take tony blairs conversion to catholicism for instance.
If having an imaginary friend helps weak people deal with life then I have no problem with it - but if they start trying to mess with my life they have another think coming.
2007-12-26 21:52:50 · answer #2 · answered by P P 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
People conditioned from their childhood to seek outside help, to seek outside authority have a deep rooted psychological need to follow what they believed is of a higher authority than their own selves. The god concept is just too attractive to them because god is suppose to be omnipotent and omniscient.
2007-12-26 21:40:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Never mind about god because that idea is irrelevant what I am curious about this you. Why do keep asking the same question in so many different ways. What exactly is your problem
2007-12-27 00:29:26 · answer #4 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From my personal experience (i'm now an atheist)
It's the feeling of God in your life, that feeling of security and peace when you give your problems to something or someone else (whether or not he's imaginary).
it's thought of as God, when it's really a simple psychological effect.
2007-12-26 21:40:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Tradition, I suppose. If you're raised with the image of a flying invisible wizard who can't be proven to exist or not by science, then you'll end up conforming to the idea. Specially if everyone else does.
2007-12-26 21:44:57 · answer #6 · answered by IceRazor 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I honestly cannot understand why anyone can't believe in God.... Do you honestly believe that everything you know, and everyone you love happened by mere chance? You honestly believe the Universe abides to laws of physics "on its own"? Atheists don't oppose God, they oppose religion. If you find religion hard to believe, don't believe it. But don't be so ignorant as to believe everything "just works" on its own.
2007-12-26 21:44:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
You are a man who is made of organs, which are made of cells, which are made of proteins, which themselves are made of chemicle bonds, which are made from elements, which are then made of atoms, which are made of protons, electrons and neutrons, which themselves are made of quartz, et cetera.
God is the only thing that was not dependant on anything for him to be?
You see a painting do you say that it came to be by chance? No, you know an artist was at work.
The same logic can be applied to the world. To many varibles exist for it to be.
These reasons and many more make believe in a higher power.
2007-12-26 21:45:23 · answer #8 · answered by scholar_wood 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You don't have to see God to believe he's there.
2007-12-26 22:02:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
well the question should read: " What is it about that world that makes us have to believe in a God?"
2007-12-26 21:36:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋