Do you believe in God? - Page 34

September 7, 2008, 6:50 PM

YES I DO.

But if you don't then er...shame on you. Bad person. D<

September 7, 2008, 6:59 PM

Nah, I can't really say I believe in a god/s or "God," but I can't turn around and declare that nothing of the sort really doesn't exist. I guess agnostic would be the best term for me. Although I was raised Seventh Day Adventist/Christian, I just came to the realization that I will never truly know the answer in this lifetime, and I'd rather not "waste my time" searching for something that is most likely unattainable.

September 7, 2008, 7:06 PM

Speaking of advent, why is the film "Advent Children" called "Advent children"?

I watched it but all i saw was two dudes with swords. The actual children just hopped around like it was some bad horror movie. D:

September 8, 2008, 3:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Kazanator

I come from a strong Catholic family so i have a strong belief in God.....To be honest, and i am not trying to bash anyone who doesnt believe in God, im just trying to make a point. But i find it silly that people can believe that there is not a higher being. I mean how was the universe created? Correcet me if im wrong, but isnt it a basic law of physics that you cant create matter from nothing? That being said, how was the first matter created in the first place? SOMETHING had to have created it, something that defys any of our physical laws. Being a Christian, i believe that God is infinte, and is not restricted to any physical law.

People have different reasons for not believing, just as there are people that believe for different reasons. Perhaps no one can agree on how the universe was created, much less, if it ever was created to begin with--which brings me to my next point. If you assume that there was a point in time in which matter didn't exist, then it's difficult to see how it's possible for God to not exist. However, because no one has proven or found evidence that there must exist a time in which matter does not exist, that may not be the case, and it is not ridiculous that people do not believe.

I'm not saying you're wrong to believe in Christianity though. I'm just saying it's not necessarily ridiculous to not believe.

September 17, 2008, 2:58 PM

We the humans are the gods.There is no god.

October 5, 2008, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by GolbezXIV

YES I DO.

But if you don't then er...shame on you. Bad person. D<

And why am I a bad person because I don't believe in a magical sky ninja?

If God DOES exist, I want to stay as far away from him as possible, he's a psychotic, homophobic, mysoginistic, malevolent, infanticidle, pestilential meglomaniacal, evil, ethnic cleansing bully.

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I come from a strong Catholic family so i have a strong belief in God.....To be honest, and i am not trying to bash anyone who doesnt believe in God, im just trying to make a point. But i find it silly that people can believe that there is not a higher being. I mean how was the universe created? Correcet me if im wrong, but isnt it a basic law of physics that you cant create matter from nothing? That being said, how was the first matter created in the first place? SOMETHING had to have created it, something that defys any of our physical laws. Being a Christian, i believe that God is infinte, and is not restricted to any physical law.

I find it silly that people use God as a gap filler for the unknown, it is true that Science does know all of the answers, but when the answers are uncovered, they are far more beautiful and elegant than just saying 'God did it,' just using God as the reason for all existence in my opinion, belittles the reality of the universe and is deeply corrosive to Science.

Do you believe in faeries? Perhaps you believe in Unicorns or Hobgoblins?

October 5, 2008, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by OverFjell

Do you believe in faeries? Perhaps you believe in Unicorns or Hobgoblins?

Raises hand and jumps up and down. I believe in unicorns! I really really do! No look! Seriously! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PL1ns00h-4&NR=1

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Originally Posted by Kazanator

I come from a strong Catholic family so i have a strong belief in God.....To be honest, and i am not trying to bash anyone who doesnt believe in God, im just trying to make a point. But i find it silly that people can believe that there is not a higher being. I mean how was the universe created? Correcet me if im wrong, but isnt it a basic law of physics that you cant create matter from nothing? That being said, how was the first matter created in the first place? SOMETHING had to have created it, something that defys any of our physical laws. Being a Christian, i believe that God is infinte, and is not restricted to any physical law.

While I can respect the fact that you believe in "God", you question how the universe was created? Have you not read on the Big Bang theory my friend? Have you not recently heard that scientists are deep into the studies of how the big bang happened, how the universe was created by using a machine called the Large Haldron Collider or otherwise known as the LHC? I'm more inclined to believe science over myth.

Just because the Bible claims God created the universe, how can you be so sure? The Bible was man-written, not God written, so how do we know it's not just full of lies? Were you there to witness it? Haven't you stepped back and taken a look into science? What about evolution? How do you we just didn't evolve from smaller beings, or some other type of creature but we gained a higher intelligence? I mean there are many different theories on how human beings were created, but I won't go into them just now.

I'm not dissing on your religion nor your personal beliefs, but I just find it hard to believe that a giant man in the sky created our world and everything in it in the matter of 7 days. This is what Stephen Hawking and his gang of scientists are studying and trying to discover, how the universe was created. We all have our beliefs, and mine is science.

October 13, 2008, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by GolbezXIV

YES I DO.

But if you don't then er...shame on you. Bad person. D<

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Originally Posted by GolbezXIV

Speaking of advent, why is the film "Advent Children" called "Advent children"?

I watched it but all i saw was two dudes with swords. The actual children just hopped around like it was some bad horror movie. D:

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Originally Posted by zitanier

We the humans are the gods.There is no god.

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October 13, 2008, 10:57 PM

I believe that there is a 'god'. Is that god the christian god? Quite possibly, but possibly not. Is that 'god' even sentient or sapient? Possibly. I truly believe in a higher power, but I do not know what that higher power is, and I doubt anyone else does or ever will. The reason I believe in a 'god' is because there is no way that matter and energy and time just randomly popped into existence. Something must have caused it. If people tell me about the Big Bang and how it started time and and dispersed energy and matter through the universe as it formed, time has to exist for anything to happen, and nothing can start without time. The Big Bang is an impossibility, but then again, every other 'birth of the universe' theory is equally impossible. I use that argument to justify my belief in a 'god'.
Religion, on the other hand, I'm kinda neutral about. Religion has had the most influence over the human race, both good and bad. People fighting over religion has caused many people to commit horrible atrocities, but on the other hand, we wouldn't have music as we know it today because music notation was thought up by a monk who wanted to preserve hymns. The purpose of religion is to make us feel secure about life and abolish any fears that we might have, but many religions have become hypocritical, with wars and discrimination. So I'm pretty much ambivalent as to whether I believe in religion or not. But I do believe in a god.