Do you believe in God/Allah/Buddah? I do because I was born to believe it God.

 

What are your opinions?

 

 

 

Please keep flaming to a minimum and post intelligently!

You can't be born to belive anything, think the make a choice.

Oh yes, Christians don't murder people for their religion, except for all the times they have. Witch hunts, Crusades, and so forth.

The crusades occurred centuries ago. Who in modern times caused 9/11 or the Boston Bombings? 

I struggle with that question. Living in the bible belt and with religious parents, I grew up with belief. The more I learn about the church, the origins of the bible, origins of other religions... the less I believe. I lose my faith daily. It astounds me that I can walk outside and easily find people who think the Earth is a few thousand years old and think that the bible was written in English and that Jesus's name was really Jesus. I am down to just a deist only because of causality; of course this could change if we find out the universe is inherent and does not need a creator. The type of being I suppose exists, if he exists at all, would be omnipotent obviously... he also would not give 2 shits about anyone's problems here on Earth. He would not answer prayers; we do not think twice about stepping on ants-- he might have a supernova going off somewhere near a life sustaining planet to worry about and not your bills, career, life, etc....

 

I think the question should be... Should god be a factor in imposing your views on others. For example, it is perfectly fine to debate against another petroleum engineer that your methods are better; giving him reasons and test results to prove it. It is not okay to push your religion/deity in a classroom of science or into laws, etc...

 

I'm an Atheist, and I honestly see no point in religion (no offense to anyone), but if you look at it, it starts wars, violence, etc. I do not believe what the bible says either since it has been changed hundreds, maybe even thousands of times over the years since the original text. I don't believe that somehow something that existed before anything created everything. I don't believe that something that hasn't been proven yet can be so powerful (talking about Christianity here). I also don't get how the hundreds of religions created before Christianity are wrong and false because Christianity is a more popular religion. 

Glad to see this isn't a complete r/atheism-like circle jerk. Reddit is filled to the brim with moronic teenagers, don't even get me started with that.

 

Myself, I live in a Christian household but I don't believe in any religion nor God... I think I fell out of my belief when I was quite young testing the power of prayer and seeing no result (kind of like Huckleberry Finn), and sometime later in elementary school I pieced together that the Christian lifestyle wasn't the only one I had to embrace and proclaimed myself a non-believer. That said, I feel like the teachings of Jesus Christ has influenced me some, but even then I don't think he counts as a primary figure in light of educators, my parents themselves, scholars and writers, etc. I don't deny any positive aspects of religion, mainly it just provides moral suport - but it also can be used as a justification for wrongdoing at times which is never good.

 

I've looked into the religions quite a bit on my own time, and I've also taken a comparitive religions course... My main interest is in the abrahamic religions, and I'd say of those I respect the teachings of Judaism most and those of Islam the least, and by far... Islam isn't entirely, but certainly the most harmful, hateful, and oppresive religion.

 

I would say religion deludes - but perhaps the mysticism is appropriate still today. I haven't gotten into the details of the US's (and some of Europe's) acute, but comparitavely weak problems with religion vs education and social progression... Personally, all that you need to know is I'm on the liberal non-religious sides of all those issues.

Edited June 22, 201312 yr by Ovningskora

The crusades occurred centuries ago. Who in modern times caused 9/11 or the Boston Bombings? 

Oklahoma. Nuff Said.

I don't know if some of these things have already been said or not, but I'm going to list them anyways.

 

1. Why do people seem to think that you need to be religious to have good morals? That is simply not true and anyone who thinks that way is pretty small-minded.

2. Why do people think their religion is the right one? There are thousands of religions in the world, but you happened to born into one of them by an accident. If you were born in India, you would problaly believe in Buddhism or Hinduism, if you were born in Africa, you would believe in one of their tribal Gods. It's simply ignorant to believe that your religion is the right one.

3. Let's talk about Christianism. What kind of morals does God have if he lets his own son to be tortured and murdered on a stick to forgive the human kind for Adam eating an apple? I would also like to take a quote from the bible : "If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives."  (Leviticus 20:13 NAB) What kind of God creates a man as a homosexual, then kills him for it,  and sends him to the everlasting hellfire. That's morals for you?

 

Oh and one last thing. Why would God send Jesus to a secluded and technologically disadvantaged part of the world such as Jerusalem?

He wanted the message to be spread didn't he? That certainly didn't help his cause.

Edited July 20, 201312 yr by sn00zz

Haha, i dont believe in live after dead

 

Oh yes, Christians don't murder people for their religion, except for all the times they have. Witch hunts, Crusades, and so forth.

The crusades occurred centuries ago. Who in modern times caused 9/11 or the Boston Bombings? 

 

The Religion the people responsible of these acts claim to follow are strongly against the hurting of others. I'm not fully educated on the Boston Bombings but as for 9/11, no where in the Quran does it speak of hurting others. It's an immortal sin to kill another Human. These people are Religious extremists and are crazy people.

In my "experiments" with LSD my dog realized that "god/Allah" is everything that ever was, is, and can be. You are god. I am you. Really what separates my body from my TV? Air? what separates my body from air? We are all already dead. 

 

fuck imma stop now

Edited July 21, 201312 yr by wasaka1

In my "experiments" with LSD my dog realized that "god/Allah" is everything that ever was, is, and can be. You are god. I am you. Really what separates my body from my TV? Air? what separates my body from air? We are all already dead. 

 

fuck imma stop now

 

That must've been some strong stuff you took..

 

Allah

I don't believe in a fictitious being that can somehow spring life from his arse or has some control over us like he's playing Age of Empires, telling us when to bring in crops... I'm currently content knowing full well that my life has an expiration date and that will be the end of me, I don't need to rely on the falsehoods of an afterlife where I'm entitled to all I didn't achieve in this life, I would much rather strive for what I want now than to give myself a false sense of fulfillment, that would only make me regret my time on this Earth.

Kind of blunt and quite depressing but this and science is why I can't bring myself to believe in a 'higher power' you're entitled to your own beliefs and like with all things if you don't force it onto me then I genuinely don't give a rats ass, I could happily share a conversion and a drink with you sometime. :L

I refuse to believe until I feel that I've seen enough evidence, that's my opinion. I won't have my parent nor any thousand year old book (which can easily be made ~300 years ago by a random dude, we never...ever will know, stories bend and turn throughout generations) tell me what to believe in. Honestly, if you rely on a god to give you good morals, I personally believe that I am better than you, no offense..unless you act like a dick, offense all day...