religion Do you believe in a God?

[Aufscherin]

I do not, we highly evolved primates invented him/her/it. "It" simply does not exist except in your fervent beliefs and imaginations. It all started with shamans rattling their beads while wearing makeup in front of the bonfire with their fellow cavemen. Then it slowly evolved with holy books that were all supposedly from God or Goddesses.

Later on pyramids, temples, churches etc. And oh yes, let's not forget the holy books. I ran a witchcraft forum and was able to convince everyone of my powers and they all feared me...so very easy. I even was able to convince myself at the time that I did. Want to know what I believe? I believe that there has always been people like me that will convince people like you and even themselves, in the powers of the supernatural whether here or in another life. Television preachers do not believe what they are telling you, they don't. All believers are just plain suckers.

I believe that we have no soul and we just die like a bug, and it's all over....done.

 

[Harsh World]

I have always thought of myself as agnostic — I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[Bawse]

I don't believe in god. I do respect the beliefs of others. I just don't believe there is a higher power in other words god.

 

[Ja sa bong]

I'm a strong believer in God. I'm a Christian and a Catholic but I have respect for every other religions out there which people believe in. Even pegans, I respect their beliefs.

 

[Cpvr]

I'm a strong believer in God. I'm a Christian and a Catholic but I have respect for every other religions out there which people believe in. Even pegans, I respect their beliefs.

I’m also a firm believer in God.

 

[ActionAce]

I’m a Christian and I believe in God because I am a living witness of his miracles. I can't do anything without him. I do understand that social and psychological factors shape our religious beliefs, but dismissing the entire concept of God is an imagination.

 

[1stop]

Your experiences with the witchcraft forum is just a power persuasion, but that doesn't necessarily disprove the existence of God. I have faith in God and it brings me comfort. That's the weapon I use to defend myself spiritually.

 

[Immortal]

I believe in God but I do not believe in God that the Holly books in various religion have portrayed. God I believe is someone in higher form that does not take interest bin human beings day to day operation (thus prayer does not work)

 

[MidnightMuse]

Some days I do, some days I do not. But the one thing that has always stuck with me is that there is too much order in the world for there not to be a higher being.

That may be God or another bring, but there is certainly something or someone keeping things going. And I choose to believe that that is a higher being.

 

[Shawn]

I do believe in God.

I can definitely see a God in nature. Humans have free will to do as they please. We're predictable and guaranteed to hate and want to control one another. But nature and wildlife are such a whole different scene. I can see a God in that.

 

[strongdude]

I follow Islamic religion and we Muslims believe in one God. Islam is purely monotheistic religion. We Muslims believe that God Almighty is only one. God Almighty has no partners. God Almighty has no spouse. God Almighty has no children. God Almighty has no parents. God Almighty is unique. Nothing can be compared to God Almighty. God Almighty alone is the most powerful. God Almighty alone is the creator of heavens and the earth. God Almighty alone is the sustainer of heavens and earth. We testify that nothing is worthy of being worshipped except God Almighty and Most Praiseworthy, Most Excellent, Most Marvellous, Most Respectable, Most Honourable, Most Chaste, Most Holy of All Prophets, Best of All Prophets, Holy Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu'alaihi'wa'alahi'wa'ssallam is God's Final Prophet and Final Messenger.

 

[Unvarnished]

I follow Islamic religion and we Muslims believe in one God. Islam is purely monotheistic religion. We Muslims believe that God Almighty is only one. God Almighty has no partners. God Almighty has no spouse. God Almighty has no children. God Almighty has no parents. God Almighty is unique. Nothing can be compared to God Almighty. God Almighty alone is the most powerful. God Almighty alone is the creator of heavens and the earth. God Almighty alone is the sustainer of heavens and earth. We testify that nothing is worthy of being worshipped except God Almighty and Most Praiseworthy, Most Excellent, Most Marvellous, Most Respectable, Most Honourable, Most Chaste, Most Holy of All Prophets, Best of All Prophets, Holy Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu'alaihi'wa'alahi'wa'ssallam is God's Final Prophet and Final Messenger.

I hope you don’t mind me sharing, but I believe that Christianity is really cool considering their doctrine. It's so practical and that's why I think it's applicable in real life.

 

[Yama]

I hope you don’t mind me sharing, but I believe that Christianity is really cool considering their doctrine. It's so practical and that's why I think it's applicable in real life.

If you ask me I will say the same thing about Hinduism. Everyone thinks best of their religion, but we live in a multicultural wold where it is politically correct to respect other religions

 

[Ashake]

If you ask me I will say the same thing about Hinduism. Everyone thinks best of their religion, but we live in a multicultural wold where it is politically correct to respect other religions

That's a fair point! Being in a multicultural environment, I always respect and understand the beliefs and culture of others. So, I try to welcome such diversification as the means to increase my understanding of various faith and ethnicity.

 

[King Belieal]

I am a Christian. I actively practice Christianity. But I am divergent on NY views about God the way it is presented in mainstream Christianity. I believe that God is supreme though.

 

[Pete Griffin]

For the believers in this thread, may I ask - respectfully - why is it that you believe in god? I believe in the things I can see, hear, touch, taste and smell. I can't understand how people can have belief in a concept which sits outside of our senses. What is it about god that makes you think, "yeah, that must be true"?

 

[Jason]

I believe in the Christian God, but I believe is message has misinterpreted to various degrees by believers today, and thru the ages.

 

[Shawn]

For the believers in this thread, may I ask - respectfully - why is it that you believe in god? I believe in the things I can see, hear, touch, taste and smell. I can't understand how people can have belief in a concept which sits outside of our senses. What is it about god that makes you think, "yeah, that must be true"?

Faith is why we believe.

You have it, too, though, and you might not know it.

Believing in science is faith. Science is merely something intelligent humans theorize to be truth or facts. There is really no proof in Science. It, just like religion, was pounded into your head, and you're brainwashed into believing it. I'm not saying it's false, but just like religion, plain and simple.

Faith is what makes us believe in anything.

Jealousy is what makes us hate another's beliefs. Some people just witness their opinions (like an Atheist protesting or Westboro Baptist Church protecting funerals), but others take it to an extreme (like Jihadists).

It's all psychological, but again, that very aspect -- psychology is just something to have faith in.

 

[Ja sa bong]

Faith is why we believe.

You have it, too, though, and you might not know it.

Believing in science is faith. Science is merely something intelligent humans theorize to be truth or facts. There is really no proof in Science. It, just like religion, was pounded into your head, and you're brainwashed into believing it. I'm not saying it's false, but just like religion, plain and simple.

Faith is what makes us believe in anything.

Jealousy is what makes us hate another's beliefs. Some people just witness their opinions (like an Atheist protesting or Westboro Baptist Church protecting funerals), but others take it to an extreme (like Jihadists).

It's all psychological, but again, that very aspect -- psychology is just something to have faith in.

Thank you @Shawn for putting it better than I would have.

Faith is everything for believers because without faith, nothing will ever make any sense in religion.

 

[Pete Griffin]

This is the kind of pseudo-intellectual drivel that tries to equate vastly different concepts by stripping them of their actual definitions and pretending that word games are the same as logic.

Faith is not just "believing in anything." Faith is belief without evidence or despite contradictory evidence. Science, on the other hand, is built on observation, experimentation, and falsifiability. The whole point of science is that it can be proven wrong—new evidence can overturn old theories. That’s the opposite of faith, which clings to belief regardless of evidence.

Saying "there is really no proof in science" is ignorant. Proof, in the mathematical sense, is different from scientific evidence. Science doesn't deal in absolute proof - it deals in probabilities, observations, and testable hypotheses. That's why science progresses. Newton’s laws were refined by Einstein. Germ theory replaced the idea of spontaneous generation. Because science adjusts based on new information. Faith doesn’t.

And no, psychology is not "something to have faith in." It's an empirical field that studies human behaviour through experiments and observation. Are there uncertainties in psychology? Sure. But uncertainty isn’t the same as faith.

This kind of argument - trying to drag everything down to "faith" - is intellectually lazy. It’s an attempt to make all beliefs seem equally arbitrary, which is a convenient excuse for ignoring facts. But reality doesn’t care about feelings. Science works whether you "believe" in it or not.

If you were to burn all religious texts, they would not come back the same in a thousand years. Different cultures would invent different gods, different myths, and different religious frameworks.

If you burned all science textbooks, however, the fundamental principles of science would eventually be rediscovered the same way. Gravity would still work. The speed of light would still be measured at 299,792,458 m/s. Evolution by natural selection would still describe how life changes over time. The periodic table would still be the same because elements behave the same way no matter what we believe.

Science isn't arbitrary. It's based on discoveries, not inventions. It isn't dictated by culture or tradition, it's dictated by reality. That's why it works, and that's why it progresses. Religion, philosophy, and myths shift depending on society and historical context. Science remains consistent because the universe operates on fixed rules, whether we like them or not.

 

[Jason]

Physics has shown there is so much we don't really know about (parallel universes etc.).

 

[Jason]

The supernatural is good for dealing with relationships because they're very uncontrollable.

 

[Apsara]

For the believers in this thread, may I ask - respectfully - why is it that you believe in god? I believe in the things I can see, hear, touch, taste and smell. I can't understand how people can have belief in a concept which sits outside of our senses. What is it about god that makes you think, "yeah, that must be true"?

Can you see, hear, touch, tase and smell the force that balance the universe? There are things beyond our perception.

 

[Pete Griffin]

There are things beyond our perception.

Which are explained by scientific fact. Gravity? Fact. I can't see it, hear it, touch it, I wouldn't tase it Perhaps my previous explanation was a little simplistic, but just because things are beyond our perception doesn't mean its godly work. The ancient Egyptians couldn't explain why the sun travelled across the sky so they invented a god to explain it. We have moved on since then. Well, some of us have. Other's are still grounded in superstition and stupidity.

 

[Shawn]

The ancient Egyptians couldn't explain why the sun travelled across the sky so they invented a god to explain it. We have moved on since then.

Yeah. Instead of calling it God, you changed the name to science and invented a new theory and called it fact because a few people supported it with their belief in the theory.

Scientific theories like religious beliefs don't fall from the sky. They're human-created beliefs. The only difference is people nominate themselves as scientists, learn a bunch of educated created by man, declare intelligence, and then support their theories by what was created by man called science.