Originally posted by Alliance
It may be....depending on what is explored. Once my be enough, but it should never be percieved as a limit.
I agree. Changing once is a big step, and I don't count small differences. Like going from one Church to another, but big changes like going from a Christian to a Buddhist. 😉
Ok, i'll tell you why i believe in a god...
1. Because i want to believe there's someone out there who, if something happens to my family, actually cares about me... Because i believe very few others do care about me... It makes me feel asthough i actually matter, instead of the atheist 'fact' that i'm an ape who just appeared for no apparent reason, in other words the only reason i'd be alive is because of a stupid thing called evolution. If there is no reason for being alive why stay alive, that's what i say....
2. Because it suits my view of good much more than the "satanist without a god" view an atheist takes on. I was brought into being christian, but i don't feel limited like most non-christians think it will be, because the only things that are limited are the things that need limiting...
Originally posted by O Green World
Ok, i'll tell you why i believe in a god...1. Because i want to believe there's someone out there who, if something happens to my family, actually cares about me... Because i believe very few others do care about me... It makes me feel asthough i actually matter, instead of the atheist 'fact' that i'm an ape who just appeared for no apparent reason, in other words the only reason i'd be alive is because of a stupid thing called evolution. If there is no reason for being alive why stay alive, that's what i say....
2. Because it suits my view of good much more than the "satanist without a god" view an atheist takes on. I was brought into being christian, but i don't feel limited like most non-christians think it will be, because the only things that are limited are the things that need limiting...
I think for most, the main reason can be summed up with just the first four/five words of your post.
P.S.
Not the "Okay I'll tell you" part.
I swear its a compulsion that was beated into people.
Today I was reading about a practice in africa where mothers iron (with hot stones) their daughters brests off during puberty to make them less "attractive to men and less likely to be raped." If you didn't guess, this is a very cruel, painful, and harmful process that often results in cancer and the inability to lactate properly upon pregnancy.
Why does this happen to 35% of the population (I forget which nation)? Because people have been told from birth that its good for them and prevents rape and lust. Thier mothers do it to them, thier grandmothers did it to thier mothers, and so on and so forth. Its ingrained and people just accept.
This is how religion works.
Originally posted by O Green World
Ok, i'll tell you why i believe in a god...1. Because i want to believe there's someone out there who, if something happens to my family, actually cares about me... Because i believe very few others do care about me... It makes me feel asthough i actually matter, instead of the atheist 'fact' that i'm an ape who just appeared for no apparent reason, in other words the only reason i'd be alive is because of a stupid thing called evolution. If there is no reason for being alive why stay alive, that's what i say....
2. Because it suits my view of good much more than the "satanist without a god" view an atheist takes on. I was brought into being christian, but i don't feel limited like most non-christians think it will be, because the only things that are limited are the things that need limiting...
Regarding #2, there are a lot more options to choose from besides Christianity and Satanism. Doesn't have to be one or the other.
Originally posted by Sai1
Regarding #2, there are a lot more options to choose from besides Christianity and Satanism. Doesn't have to be one or the other.
I have seen other religions and to be honest my morale, which i have been told is very good, fits perfectly into christianity, in the other ones there is always something that just doesn't seem right....
Originally posted by Alliance
I swear its a compulsion that was beated into people.Today I was reading about a practice in africa where mothers iron (with hot stones) their daughters brests off during puberty to make them less "attractive to men and less likely to be raped." If you didn't guess, this is a very cruel, painful, and harmful process that often results in cancer and the inability to lactate properly upon pregnancy.
Why does this happen to 35% of the population (I forget which nation)? Because people have been told from birth that its good for them and prevents rape and lust. Thier mothers do it to them, thier grandmothers did it to thier mothers, and so on and so forth. Its ingrained and people just accept.
This is how religion works.
Yeah, but my parents don't force me to believe, and neither did my grandparents nor their parents, they just told them what they believed and sent them to sunday school. My cousin isn't christian but his parents are 😖 and just because it's the way of the religion to spread the word doesn't make it wrong 😖... It's like the fact it isn't fair that atheists go around telling their children their views of religion so they grow up to agree 😖
Originally posted by O Green World
Yeah, but my parents don't force me to believe, and neither did my grandparents nor their parents, they just told them what they believed and sent them to sunday school. My cousin isn't christian but his parents are 😖 and just because it's the way of the religion to spread the word doesn't make it wrong 😖... It's like the fact it isn't fair that atheists go around telling their children their views of religion so they grow up to agree 😖
Speaking of which, I'm kinda curious Alliance. What religion are your parents?
Originally posted by Sai1
How about becasue people might actually want to be part of productive society, if not at the very least avoid being a hindranace to it. Are you telling me that if for argument's sake, there definately was no god, heaven, or hell you would go around sinning as much as you liked?
Originally posted by O Green World
Ok, i'll tell you why i believe in a god...1. Because i want to believe there's someone out there who, if something happens to my family, actually cares about me... Because i believe very few others do care about me... It makes me feel asthough i actually matter, instead of the atheist 'fact' that i'm an ape who just appeared for no apparent reason, in other words the only reason i'd be alive is because of a stupid thing called evolution. If there is no reason for being alive why stay alive, that's what i say....
2. Because it suits my view of good much more than the "satanist without a god" view an atheist takes on. I was brought into being christian, but i don't feel limited like most non-christians think it will be, because the only things that are limited are the things that need limiting...
[Agrees]
Originally posted by O Green WorldSo basically you have no reason to believe just that it makes you feel better to do so...great.
Ok, i'll tell you why i believe in a god...1. Because i want to believe there's someone out there who, if something happens to my family, actually cares about me... Because i believe very few others do care about me... It makes me feel asthough i actually matter, instead of the atheist 'fact' that i'm an ape who just appeared for no apparent reason, in other words the only reason i'd be alive is because of a stupid thing called evolution. If there is no reason for being alive why stay alive, that's what i say....
2. Because it suits my view of good much more than the "satanist without a god" view an atheist takes on. I was brought into being christian, but i don't feel limited like most non-christians think it will be, because the only things that are limited are the things that need limiting...
Originally posted by maham
Isn't that enuf 4 1 2 blieve?U blieve in watever u blieve in cuz it makes u feel satisfied,don't u?
Yeah, basically.
If we can all agree that you people jsut believe cause you want to and for no other reason (like that it is most likely true, which it isn't) then that's good. Whatever Floats your Boat. Just don't press it on others.
Originally posted by maham
Whose pressin it? He's just tellin u y he blieves in wat he blieves.N it doesn't only keep ur boat afloat,it keeps them all afloat so every1 shud blieve in it.Not that it's pressin on u.
I wasn't referrring to him, I was referring to people who actually press it on others. You know?
Originally posted by Bardock42
So basically you have no reason to believe just that it makes you feel better to do so...great.
And also because there is a book that has scientific facts in it, when it was written long before science existed 🙂 Like the earth being spherical and hung in 'nothing' for example... It also has words that seem to resemble true good.
You have to remember when talking about god, there are alot of things that we know very little about like wormholes etc, so why can't a god be one of them?