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Is there a GOD?

Do you believe in GOD?

  • Absolutely no question--I know

    Votes: 150 25.6%
  • I cannot know for sure--but strongly believe in the existance of god

    Votes: 71 12.1%
  • I am very uncertain but inclined to believe in god

    Votes: 35 6.0%
  • God's existance is equally probable and improbable

    Votes: 51 8.7%
  • I dont think the existance of god is probable

    Votes: 112 19.1%
  • I know there is no GOD we are a random quirk of nature

    Votes: 167 28.5%

  • Total voters
    586

Maybe because it seemed peaceful to them.....

I doubt that there have been to many Buddhists change to Christianity, but i could be wrong. Both are ok religions in my view. If i had to choose one i would likely choose Buddhism...
 
God in a religious context is what I would regard as something of our own creation to deal with an issue of self awareness. This is the difficulty in coming to terms with our individual physical mortality.

The more practical question is where we are on the scale of life in the universe.
 

In many cases it was simply a transferral of allegiance from one god, or one set of gods, to another. Fear can be quite persuasive! So also could white men arriving in boats and aeroplanes with beads and mirrors. Please don't give me the "it made sense" line - the people you are talking about were for the most part illiterate and were quite unable to apply any powers of reasoning. Read some history.
 

For starters: Which god are we talking about?
Allah, Bastet, Christ, Demeter, Eros, Frigga, Ganesh, Hermes, Ishtar, Jupiter, Kali, Lakshmi, Manitou, Nut, Osiris, Ptah, Quetzal, Rainbow Serpent, Saturn, Thor, Uranus, Venus, Wotan, Xenu, Yahwe, Zeus.

It seems that in early human history, each tribe invented their own - "created a god in their own image" as it were. Are they all a particular aspect of the same superior being? Or are they all figments of ancient rulers' imagination? The latter must be the most probable, but I don't know for sure. Well, in the case of L.Ron Hubbard's Xenu, I am pretty sure.

Soon enough it will become a non-question.
 
I find it incredible that anyone on this forum would have voted yes.

Are humans still so stupid to believe in these myths designed to explain the unexplainable?
 
Do we really need the revival of yet another old religion thread?
 
http://www.theonion.com/articles/god-knocked-unconscious-by-directtv-satellite,36752/
God Knocked Unconscious By DirectTV Satellite
NEWS IN BRIEF • God • News • ISSUE 50•33 • Aug 22, 2014

THE HEAVENS - Noting that He was a little shaken but would be all right, sources confirmed Friday that the Lord God Almighty, Our Heavenly Father, was struck by a DirecTV satellite approximately 22,000 miles above earth, rendering Him unconscious for several minutes.

“Whoa! How long was I out?” God said to a host of concerned seraphim, moments after the four-ton satellite impacted near His right temple while traveling at roughly 6,900 miles per hour. “Man, I must have let My mind wander””that thing really came out of nowhere. I didn’t see it at all.”

As of press time, Heavenly sources confirmed that the deity had fully returned to omniscience.
 
Well the 'life' objective is too sustain, continue, survive, exist etc. so there is an objective but for human mind there is no known "meaning" hence the seeking/explanation (or indoctrination in many cases) of a meaning to it all. Science and religion - one revealing substance, the other perpetuating imagination (belief before substance). Belief can stretch a long way from "what is" and belief with no substance to offer is a lie of the highest order.

What do you 'think'?
 

Pretty well said

A system of control that plays with minds unable to find their own way because they were not taught to think for themselves in the beginning.

And perhaps "taught" may be at error too. Allowed to think freely for themselves perhaps.
 
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