What's the point of proving or disproving the existence of God?

Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
As stated people can be religious without the faith aspect.

Remember back in the days when noone (or very few) would actually doubt the existence of a God or gods. They didn't have faith he/they was/were real any more than they had faith that the ground, sea and fire was real...

In many cases teh ground sea and fire where also gods!

So, Religion/Theism can exist without faith.

organised relegion{and abrahamic relegions in particular} is based mostly on dogma and very little on faith. faith and dogma are neare to being opposites then anything else. the former relies on trust/love/connection and the later relies on fear/forced obedience/inevitable gap of relation between the object of worship/beleif and the human in question.

thats one reason why i think its misrepresentative and wrong to call organised relegion as FAITH to begin with. empty dogma and true spirituality{which is "faith"} are very VERY different things. people quite often need faith in their lives, and it is healthy to have faith. relegion on the other hand doesnt provide this at all, and usually provides the opposite.

I don't think I'm militant or afraid of being proved wrong and most other Atheist that I know wouldn't care either. Most of use (the ones I know) would rather know for sure then not.

I often feel the urge to pick a side and dispel all doubt at all costs. It's a foolish impulse, and it apparently exists on both sides of most theocratic arguments.
But as for the existence of God...well, it is rather a pointless argument. Christianity is filled with principles, promises and threats scattered all throughout the Bible, but nowhere in the Bible does God directly offer any reward or punishment for anybody's belief in how earth got there.

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Wow! JIA you just keep pasting the same thing over and over in different threads. The problem is that you believe that energy was created. You should not believe in the first law of thermodynamics because it proves that energy cannot be created.

There's plenty of posters who are militant Christians, and are probably close to a lot of JIA's beliefs....but who don't get their posts edited by globals and aren't continually ignored. You'd think that after all this time, JIA might realize that it's his posting/debating methods that are abhorrent, not the messages themselves, since at least some of his beliefs are held by numerous KMC members.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Wow! JIA you just keep pasting the same thing over and over in different threads. The problem is that you believe that energy was created. You should not believe in the first law of thermodynamics because it proves that energy cannot be created.

Originally posted by =Tired Hiker=
I totally get that some people think religion is bogus and some don't, but why make a point to prove or disprove the existence of God?

Originally posted by Da Pittman
About damn time he got tagged for spamming.

What Digi said.^