Daniel asked What makes you think god exists/does not ex…

Someone or something has to be responsible for the existence of our universe/the laws of physics that allow it to exist. Also I just like the idea

Pawesome · 4y

The very concept is self-contradictory. And even if it's not, there is no evidence what so ever favoring a god hypothesis.

J1smith · 4y

Things are much too fucked up for it not to be by design

Sean ⚡🤖 · 4y

My personal gods do exist, while I am not so sure those of the others do.

There is literally nothing in my life that's happened that made me go "wow, that's a crazy thing, God MUST have done it." Everything that I've seen or heard about, I can attribute it to mechanistic explanations of people and/or nature or luck. I guess I've just never needed to believe in a god? If I need/want something, I take the steps to get it. I can't hope that a god is looking out for me in particular.

Teo · 4y

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

Pandy · 4y

That he/she does—-My own personal experiences. There is also too much order and synchronicity in our university for it to have occurred as a series of random events.

LaDamaX · 4y

[08-25-19]

Logic.

I don't know that God doesn't exist (or gods). Save crazy people, nobody knows. You have faith or you don't. Coincidence and confirmation bias may assist in this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor

_ · 4y

Logically there is nothing indicating all this is the work of a supreme being. There's just too much uncertainty for all of us to pin our hopes on that belief. Neil DeGrasse Tyson's explanation of "stupid design" articulates this pretty well: https://i.imgur.com/wRMHBuU.jpg

Alice 💋 · 4y

Etwas musste von dem unerklärlichen Zustand des Nichts und aus der Zeitlosigkeit in die Zeit fallen. Dafür war ein Impuls nötig. Weiter kann Intellekt und Leben nicht aus dem Interagieren toter Materie entstanden sein, auch hier ist das Wirken einer geistlichen Wesenheit (Wesenheiten) notwendig. Und auf die Frage woher god stammt? Hier betreten wir für den menschlichen Verstand unerklärliches Terrain. Wohl war alles schon immer hier, in unterschiedlicher Form, so auch wir. Das Universum erwacht, hat eine Phase der Wachheit, zieht sich wieder zurück in den Urgrund und ruht dort, erwacht erneut, ständig wechselnd.

Wasserpistole · 4y

I've had enough psychic experiences to know that we're all connected/not 100% separate, and if we're all connected then there should be broader and broader/higher and higher levels of connection until you get to the unity of all beings, which is God. That's just one reason, though, the other reason I explained in my OKCupid profile under "The first time I truly believed in a higher power was:" at https://www.okcupid.com/profile/AirCastle333

Actually, on second thought, let me copy it here:

I was raised Christian; I went to Christian schools from kindergarten to 9th grade. Somewhere around Age 17 I started to question some of the precepts of Christianity and used my own reasoning and decided they didn't make sense.

After a year or two of struggling with the fear of eternal damnation for apostatizing, I finally came to be at one with my apostasy. I think that was a big step for me and shows how strongly independent-thinking I am, because most people never give up Christianity (or, probably, any religion) once they're raised on it no matter how smart they are.

I wondered for a while thereafter whether there really is a God, whether we're all just atoms bouncing around in a purely physical universe, etc.

When I came across the book 'Conversations with God' by Neale Donald Walsch (which isn't coming from a religious mindset, but rather spiritualist), I was struck by a couple of things. One was the utter purity of the energy of God's portions of the dialog. I'd never encountered an intelligent being so pure before.

And to explain the second thing, I have to start with the fact that I'm very good at recognizing flaws on all levels, especially or at least in writing, including intentions, grammar, word choice, etc. (not saying I'm perfect either in these domains), and God's portions of the dialog in the book (actually, in all of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_with_God#Dialogue_Books_series ) were all, amazingly, flawless on all levels. This was amazing to me because it was the first time I'd ever encountered perfectly flawless writing in my life. Taking the Dialogue Books series as a whole, it probably remains the only time.

Daniel · 12 answers · 4y