Is There a God? - Lol

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There's a simple way to check if there really is a God.

Make a God thread in the lolcow board and wait for Him to sperg at us.
 
Since you asked........"Is there a God?"

My answer?

Yes. I believe there is.

YMMV.

I've really enjoyed reading all the replies in this topic.
 
Not really. If there is a God, I don't think it's going to be the all-loving merciful old dude that modern religions worship.
The 'problem of evil' was already discussed a few pages back and I've seen people use the rebuttal of how humans have free will, which caused evil and is therefore not God's fault. Free will does explain 'moral evil', but what about 'natural evil' such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and natural disasters in general? The evil that can cause mass devastation through the environment is not the consequence of human free will, and if God is meant to be omnibenevolent and omniscient then there is really no excuse for allowing the environment of the world to do this to humans. If there is a God, he absolutely cannot be omnibenevolent, omnipotent and omniscient, and therefore not the God that people worship today. Like really, what kind of nice God would deliberately put edges of tectonic plates underneath major countries to cause earthquakes every few years?

It would be pretty rad to have a whole pantheon of Gods that are just dicking around though. Makes sense considering how shitty the world can be, but there's still some nice stuff happening here and there.
 
This reality is kind of a simulation and there definitely may be something on the outside observing it and randomly empowering people (Jesus, etc) to affect our development. It may be a pointless as our reality just being a Sims game for some bored superbeing.
 
Gym Leader Elesa dijo:
When the people here who question or (do not believe) began their questioning, what was it that first caused it?

Oftentimes I think it is emotional before it is rational. This isn't to say that opposition to divinities or religions, be they polytheistic, monotheistic, anthropomorphic deities, etc. is unreasonable- in fact it is often quite reasonable- simply that much like with religionists the first inkling tends to come from the heart rather than the head, something I think a lot of atheists are more skittish about. I find things like "no being can rightfully consider itself above me" to be common in skeptical circles, for instance, which is not necessarily an exercise in empiricism since definitions of "above" and "below" or "better" and "worse" are often so subjectively defined by all human beings. It seems like a purely emotional appeal. "I reject this Jesus fella because he thinks he is better than me and my American values taught me that no one is better than me." This isn't wrong outright of course, emotional appeals do have value in discussion if only because of philosophical pragmatism ("I believe the things which it is best to believe.") Just something to note.

I suppose what all of this autism is trying to get at is "what first made you doubt?" I find most began to question things early. I don't meet a lot of adult converts to atheism or agnosticism. People have usually decided one way or the other by then. Of course most still continue to question individual things, or change belief systems, and so on. I don't mean to question that.
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For me, it was rationality that caused me to stop believing, and I didn't fully "convert" to atheism until I was 20. For years I'd gone along with the idea that the earth was hundreds of billions of years old and everything has a scientific explanation while simultaneously believing in the concept of Jesus as a divine figure who died for our sins. The problem was that the more I learned about objectively provable reality, the harder it was to believe in God as depicted in the Bible. I was trying to come up with all sorts of explanations as to how they could both be correct, and meanwhile there was this logical part of me in the background pointing out that they couldn't, and meanwhile one had concrete evidence and the other didn't.

I think these days that if there is a God, it can't be anything remotely like the one in any major religion, because it's just not scientifically possible. If there is one, it's probably so inhuman as to be incomprehensible to us.
 
Gym Leader Elesa dijo:
When the people here who question or (do not believe) began their questioning, what was it that first caused it?
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I think it's oversimplifying to refer to nonbelievers by when they "began" questioning, because that makes it sound like we all started as believers. I never began, I simply didn't buy what I was being told to begin with.
 
I have had an insane theory, probably because I'm high as shit.

But whatever, here goes.

Scientists have actually proven the existence of a force that does indeed permeate everything, thus being omni-present and additionally is a prime candidate for being responsible for quite literally everything, making it all powerful. It cannot be created or destroyed by any means that we know of, only be changed from one form to another, but it does have a singular source.

This is most commonly known as either the EM spectrum (electromagnetic spectrum), radiation or just plain energy.

Think about it for a minute, even things made of matter possess a half life and break back down into radiation eventually, thus creating the idea of an eternal afterlife that we as humans cannot truly perceive.

The only questions that remain are whether:

A) If it is alive?
B) If it is sentient?
C) Is it aware that it made us?
D) Does it even care?
 
My belief is that there is a God who didn't outright create the universe, but merely guided it along the path that he wanted it to. The Big Bang happened, evolution happened, but they were both subject to divine intervention at certain points when things looked like they were going to go crashing off the rails. This ties into my belief that there is a scientific, rational explanation for God, likely in the form of higher beings living in a far off universe that visited our planet several times throughout human history in order to provide us with the guidance that we needed.

Also, Dennis Prager and Michael Shermer recently had a conversation on the Rubin Report about belief vs non-belief that was really interesting:

 
I think there is but I don't buy into the idea that some Protestants have latched onto that one can prove God's existence. If God exists, I think it would be a matter of self-interest to ensure that his existence can't be empirically proven or disproven.
 
Personally I believe there is a god though on that same note, it's just my own view. Beyond my own thoughts, I could be dead wrong. Maybe there is no god, maybe there is a pantheon of gods. Or maybe that god turns out to be Sonichu who decides to smite us for mocking his prophet CWC with this forum. Whatever there is in belief in a higher power, that shit is gonna vary among individuals. Some of us believe there may be a god, some of us don't. Either way, we all have different reasons, be it we believe in a god working in mysterious ways or we simply are egocentric and want to think we're special in a vast universe that most likely gives no shit about us.
 
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