Does the (Christian) God Exist?

[United States of White America]

No, but wearing an American pin does mean you are a nationalist. Going to a Republican or Democratic convention for the purpose of supporting it would mean that you are either Republican or Democrat.

And going to an atheist convention means you're an atheist.

Which has jack shit to do with religion.

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[Mavorpen]

And going to an atheist convention means you're an atheist.

Which has jack shit to do with religion.

Being an atheist has everything to do with religion. without religion there is no reason to claim that you are an atheist.

Of course there would.

Belief in a God doesn't require you being in a religion.

[Kelinfort]

And going to an atheist convention means you're an atheist.

Which has jack shit to do with religion.

Being an atheist has everything to do with religion. without religion there is no reason to claim that you are an atheist.

But you claim a religion is the direct cause of reason? Then which one?

[Shilya]

Belief in a God doesn't require you being in a religion.

In fact I'd be entirely fine with people believing in god(s), if only religions would go away.

[Eberica]

Being an atheist has everything to do with religion. without religion there is no reason to claim that you are an atheist.

Of course there would.

Belief in a God doesn't require you being in a religion.

good point. all that i'm saying is that when someone says "there definitely is no god" that it is a belief. It's ok to have a belief like that in fact when i say I am an agnostic I always add "leaning atheist" I just don't have all the facts yet, none of us do. and to be honest going to an atheist convention doesn't make you an atheist. I would go if Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris were speaking. What I was saying before is if you go to atheist conventions regularly or even "religiously". My wife is Christian and on holidays or when she bribes me, I go every once in a while. I certainly don't believe in the religious aspects so just going doesn't make me a christian.

[Eberica]

Belief in a God doesn't require you being in a religion.

In fact I'd be entirely fine with people believing in god(s), if only religions would go away.

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[United States of White America]

In fact I'd be entirely fine with people believing in god(s), if only religions would go away.

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Religion is important though.

[Mavorpen]

good point. all that i'm saying is that when someone says "there definitely is no god" that it is a belief. It's ok to have a belief like that in fact when i say I am an agnostic I always add "leaning atheist" I just don't have all the facts yet, none of us do. and to be honest going to an atheist convention doesn't make you an atheist. I would go if Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris were speaking. What I was saying before is if you go to atheist conventions regularly or even "religiously". My wife is Christian and on holidays or when she bribes me, I go every once in a while. I certainly don't believe in the religious aspects so just going doesn't make me a christian.

Not believing in God makes you an atheist.

"Agnostic" is not a third option. You either don't believe in a deity/deities, or you don't.

[Divair]

Belief in a God doesn't require you being in a religion.

In fact I'd be entirely fine with people believing in god(s), if only religions would go away.

It's not even religion so much as organized religion interfering with national governments. Ensure they're incapable of impacting the political scene and they become annoying at worst.

[Eberica]

Being an atheist has everything to do with religion. without religion there is no reason to claim that you are an atheist.

Of course there would.

Belief in a God doesn't require you being in a religion.

I wish this were true for more people.

[Kelinfort]

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Religion is important though.

Why is it important?

[Caecuser]

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Religion is important though.

How is it important?

[Sretharia]

There is no god cuz there are so many of them and all these gods are thaughts of people. The only god is science. And science does exist.

[Divair]

There is no god cuz there are so many of them and all these gods are thaughts of people. The only god is science. And science does exist.

Science is not a god.

[Ashmoria]

Of course there would.

Belief in a God doesn't require you being in a religion.

good point. all that i'm saying is that when someone says "there definitely is no god" that it is a belief. It's ok to have a belief like that in fact when i say I am an agnostic I always add "leaning atheist" I just don't have all the facts yet, none of us do. and to be honest going to an atheist convention doesn't make you an atheist. I would go if Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris were speaking. What I was saying before is if you go to atheist conventions regularly or even "religiously". My wife is Christian and on holidays or when she bribes me, I go every once in a while. I certainly don't believe in the religious aspects so just going doesn't make me a christian.

pfffft

I say I don't believe in god because I don't. it doesn't bother me that there is some tiny chance that some god exists or existed somewhere some time. just as it doesn't bother me to know that some day the big bang theory may be disproven.

[Eberica]

good point. all that i'm saying is that when someone says "there definitely is no god" that it is a belief. It's ok to have a belief like that in fact when i say I am an agnostic I always add "leaning atheist" I just don't have all the facts yet, none of us do. and to be honest going to an atheist convention doesn't make you an atheist. I would go if Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris were speaking. What I was saying before is if you go to atheist conventions regularly or even "religiously". My wife is Christian and on holidays or when she bribes me, I go every once in a while. I certainly don't believe in the religious aspects so just going doesn't make me a christian.

Not believing in God makes you an atheist.

"Agnostic" is not a third option. You either don't believe in a deity/deities, or you don't.

Not true, I don't believe in any god that has been written about. I believe if there is a god it won't be the "christian" god, or the muslim" god, or the "hindu" gods, or the "Roman" gods, or any of the other gods. But i believe there is a possibility that a god or many could exist. if you look at it objectively humans have been gods to other species. Specifically species we have created like banana and wintergreen smelling e. coli http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=90014997

[DesAnges]

In a definite, material sense? Fuck knows, and I don't really care.

In a more...wishy-washy philosophical pontificating sense, s/he exists because people believe in her/him.

[Divair]

Not believing in God makes you an atheist.

"Agnostic" is not a third option. You either don't believe in a deity/deities, or you don't.

Not true, I don't believe in any god that has been written about. I believe if there is a god it won't be the "christian" god, or the muslim" god, or the "hindu" gods, or the "Roman" gods, or any of the other gods. But i believe there is a possibility that a god or many could exist. if you look at it objectively humans have been gods to other species. Specifically species we have created like banana and wintergreen smelling e. coli http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=90014997

Do you currently believe in a god or gods?

[Mavorpen]

Not believing in God makes you an atheist.

"Agnostic" is not a third option. You either don't believe in a deity/deities, or you don't.

Not true, I don't believe in any god that has been written about. I believe if there is a god it won't be the "christian" god, or the muslim" god, or the "hindu" gods, or the "Roman" gods, or any of the other gods. But i believe there is a possibility that a god or many could exist. if you look at it objectively humans have been gods to other species. Specifically species we have created like banana and wintergreen smelling e. coli http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=90014997

So then you're an atheist.

An atheist that doesn't understand what the word means, but one nonetheless.

[Shilya]

Not believing in God makes you an atheist.

"Agnostic" is not a third option. You either don't believe in a deity/deities, or you don't.

Not true, I don't believe in any god that has been written about. I believe if there is a god it won't be the "christian" god, or the muslim" god, or the "hindu" gods, or the "Roman" gods, or any of the other gods. But i believe there is a possibility that a god or many could exist. if you look at it objectively humans have been gods to other species. Specifically species we have created like banana and wintergreen smelling e. coli http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=90014997

So you're saying aliens exist and to us they're like god.

[Greater Istanistan]

There is no god cuz there are so many of them and all these gods are thaughts of people. The only god is science. And science does exist.

Science is not a god.

TECHNO-HERESY

HAIL THE OMNISSIAH




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If nobody gets this I will be sad.

[Eberica]

Woah, I go to sleep and I wake up to find 8 new pages of replies.

I'm going to throw a question out to atheists and non-believers...
Where do you think you go when you die?

same place we were a year before we were born.

[The New World Oceania]

Not true, I don't believe in any god that has been written about. I believe if there is a god it won't be the "christian" god, or the muslim" god, or the "hindu" gods, or the "Roman" gods, or any of the other gods. But i believe there is a possibility that a god or many could exist. if you look at it objectively humans have been gods to other species. Specifically species we have created like banana and wintergreen smelling e. coli http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=90014997

So then you're an atheist.

An atheist that doesn't understand what the word means, but one nonetheless.

This is comparable to stating one is only either straight or asexual: the common or the opposite thereof.

[Eberica]

Not true, I don't believe in any god that has been written about. I believe if there is a god it won't be the "christian" god, or the muslim" god, or the "hindu" gods, or the "Roman" gods, or any of the other gods. But i believe there is a possibility that a god or many could exist. if you look at it objectively humans have been gods to other species. Specifically species we have created like banana and wintergreen smelling e. coli http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=90014997

So you're saying aliens exist and to us they're like god.

only if you are saying we were genetically engineered by aliens. Which i don't think there is enough evidence for no matter how often our friend Giorgio Tsoukalos (damn i hope i spelled that correctly) say "maybe it was aliens"

[Mavorpen]

So then you're an atheist.

An atheist that doesn't understand what the word means, but one nonetheless.

This is comparable to stating one is only either straight or asexual: the common or the opposite thereof.

Yes, it is.

It's a false comparison, though.