Do you believe in God?

**"Skeet"** · 05-23-2009, 03:44 PM

Just answer

**BART** · 05-23-2009, 04:11 PM

do you believe in love after love?

I can feel something inside me say "I really don't think you're strong enough now."

**Ammy** · 05-23-2009, 04:11 PM

really skeet? not even a pole? c'mon man.

**austenmk** · 05-23-2009, 04:15 PM

pole it.

**"Skeet"** · 05-23-2009, 04:17 PM

ohmygosh i totally forgot about POLL's

and no i don't believe in love after love

**YellowSnow** · 05-23-2009, 04:31 PM

Only when I need God do I believe in him. Usually when finals come around.

**Ryan Jones** · 05-23-2009, 04:31 PM

Idk what I believe, so I don't think about it. I don't necessarily not believe, I just ignore it.

**Black** · 05-23-2009, 04:38 PM

There is a trend with the most intellectual minds in history generally being anti-theists.

**"Skeet"** · 05-23-2009, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by Black

There is a trend with the most intellectual minds in history generally being anti-theists.

it kinda comes with the territory

**Chev** · 05-23-2009, 04:54 PM

When im scared of something, i want there to be a god, also when family members die, its nice to think of something like Heaven.

**Noodles** · 05-23-2009, 05:06 PM

I believe

**skimcowboy** · 05-23-2009, 06:12 PM

God is a superstition.

**GnipGnop** · 05-23-2009, 06:24 PM

god is a number you cannot count.

i went to god just to see, and i was looking at me.

**Chev** · 05-23-2009, 06:27 PM

Chatroom Orgy anyone?

DT · 05-23-2009, 07:03 PM

Keaton always said, "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him." Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.

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**ejb** · 05-23-2009, 07:04 PM

i believe that there is some form of higher power. idk if it's the god as depicted in the bible or other religions but i think there is something.

**outsider-80** · 05-23-2009, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by Black

There is a trend with the most intellectual minds in history generally being anti-theists.

This may be true BUT plenty of influential intellectuals did believe in at least some kind of Supreme Being. - Galileo,Newton,C.S.Lewis,Kepler,Kierkegaard,etc. Intellectualism doesn't exclude someone from believing in God.

**Adam Hayward** · 05-23-2009, 10:47 PM

Originally Posted by Black

There is a trend with the most intellectual minds in history generally being anti-theists.

oh?

**potatoes63** · 05-23-2009, 11:03 PM

just watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDp7pkEcJVQ

**Gehrig** · 05-23-2009, 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by Black

There is a trend with the most intellectual minds in history generally being anti-theists.

our founding fathers were very anti-religious.

**DjMattyD** · 05-23-2009, 11:30 PM

options are not acceptable

**Teddy Parker** · 05-24-2009, 12:00 AM

should this not be a yes or no only?

**Black** · 05-24-2009, 12:02 AM

Originally Posted by outsider-80

This may be true BUT plenty of influential intellectuals did believe in at least some kind of Supreme Being. - Galileo,Newton,C.S.Lewis,Kepler,Kierkegaard,etc. Intellectualism doesn't exclude someone from believing in God.

Notice that I said Anti-Theist. They don't believe in organized religion, though some "supreme being" is left as a possibility in the minds of some intellectuals. (93% of Nobel Prize winners in Science and Literature were anti-theists.)

I wasn't saying that intellectuals automatically are categorized as atheists. But it's true that an overwhelming majority don't believe in a talking snake, a magical man in the sky, or any of the other utter nonsense. Religions change with time as some ideas become more and more ridiculous , and as science explains the unexplainable. Before we knew about wind or water, there was a "God of the Wind" and "God of the Water". We think that's crazy. Just think how irrational the basic beliefs of Christianity or some other religions will sound in 100 years.

**Shea Benton** · 05-24-2009, 12:17 AM

"on occasion" should be named "too pussy to say there isn't a god because if there is then i'll go to hell for saying it"

**Squintsdib** · 05-24-2009, 12:19 AM

http://www.wts.edu/flash/media_popup...aramType=video

an excellent debate on the subject

**Jim Gordon** · 05-24-2009, 12:53 AM

Jesus said he was the son of God.....are we not also the son of God too?
Also God made man in his own likeness.......so maybe God is in all of us.

**Steve E** · 05-24-2009, 01:20 AM

I am going to have to go with I believe there is no God, however I do not treat this opinion as a fact, because no one will ever know on Earth.

However, things such as the human mind and body function, genetics and reproduction, make it hard to fathom there wasn't someone out there who laid out this perfect infrastructure.

**shin-n** · 05-24-2009, 02:06 AM

agnostic

**nukka-cp** · 05-24-2009, 05:03 AM

Originally Posted by Jim Gordon

Also God made man in his own likeness.......so maybe God is in all of us.

This is how I perceive god. God is within you and me, because whether or not you believe in god doesn't change the fact that you can control your own destiny with enough time and effort while your on this planet. The fact that we can all make judgments about the world around us and we can act on those judgments doesn't prove the existence of god, or a god, or of multiple gods, but rather it proves that we all have the power of consciousness and we can manipulate our reality based on this consciousness.

So then is the creation of a god or multiple gods by religion or ritual just an attempt to solve the mystery of consciousness? I don't know I couldn't tell you, but personally I think that if we all have the same ability to continually learn new processes and still be able retain the knowledge of past experiences then we all have an ability of god, and if we have an ability of god then it means we are apart of god. (I speak of god not in the sense that it is a person or singular thing but more like one huge idea or higher level of consciousness).

Those are my thoughts as of 5:03 AM while at work and having worked since 10:00 Pm.

**Dzan** · 05-24-2009, 05:15 AM

Originally Posted by outsider-80

This may be true BUT plenty of influential intellectuals did believe in at least some kind of Supreme Being. - Galileo,Newton,C.S.Lewis,Kepler,Kierkegaard,etc. Intellectualism doesn't exclude someone from believing in God.

Galileo - Would have been burned at the stake if he was an atheist. Probably safer to tell everyone you believe in God.
Newton - Lived in a time when he had to hide his religion, unitarianism, for political reasons.
Lewis - Wasn't really an intellectual.
Kepler - See Galileo
Kierkegaard - I'll give you this one, but I suspect if he was born today he probably would have been agnostic.

The point is most of those people lived in times and places where questioning religion was not acceptable and thus they didn't do it. Had they lived in a free society, it is probable that they would have arrived at the same conclusion most other "intellectuals" today have: agnosticism is the most intelligently defensible position to hold.

Another point worth mentioning, when really, really educated intelligent people today DO believe in God, they will usually admit that they don't have logical reasons for doing so.

**"Skeet"** · 05-24-2009, 05:31 AM

Originally Posted by sdstateskim

"on occasion" should be named "too pussy to say there isn't a god because if there is then i'll go to hell for saying it"

Hah, those two are different for me because I don't believe in God but whenever some kind of emergency happens where I feel like my life or someone I love's life is in danger I hardcore pray to God making bargains and shit

**Michael Fk** · 05-24-2009, 08:27 AM

Damn that's crazy more people don't than do.

**Indy** · 05-24-2009, 08:34 AM

I can't wrap my mind around the fact that people can actually believe there is a god... i leave it at that.

**Michael Fk** · 05-24-2009, 08:39 AM

I don't believe there is a God because priests, school, my parents, or the bible proves it. The proof I have is when God has helped me in a few situations that could have killed me.