who believes that there is a god?

[sith123]

simple question, im up for arguments so come on, (only friendly arguments) :)

[craft1948]

I do...........

[sith123]

i kinda agree with you there, but i do think that it is the majority of the medias fault, as they blow these things out of proportions compared to other things, like you hear a lot more about the taliban than the IRA, like that saying i heard "not every muslim is a terrorists, but all terrorists are muslim". This is clearly inncorect, what about the IRA, that guy who killed all those children at that place (forgot his name) and also those ones up in Sri lanka.

[pa___ul3]

absolutely, and I'll be the one of the first to stand up and shout that terrorism isn't something Muslims do.
The thing there is... these recent Al Qaeda terrorists do act in the name of Islam as a fight against 'the west'. The IRA was motivated by religion. The Spanish Crusades were motivated by religion. They were to tool to justify what they were doing and their 'get out of jail free card' from guilt.
In a world without religion, there'd be no justification for these acts, but benevolent acts would still be rewarded. That's basically my overall view of religion. Whereas in a great deal of areas the intentions are good and wholesome, they're too easily used for evil. Modern thinkers as we are nowadays no longer need organised religion as much as we did and I think nowadays it's negatives outweigh it's positives, overall.

[sith123]

yeah, i agree with you mate, but thankfully most of the people who are religious are good and its just those few that, as you said, have to spoil it for everyone else and give it a bad name, but you gave some great points and thanks for that and unlike other people on here i have talked to you havent used arguments or tried to make fun to get your point across, well done :)

[mibn2cweus]

Any form of belief in the arbitrary is potentially dangerous in some way or another, if only in alienating oneself from reality. On principle, I don't believe in anything I don't know and understand, especially when everything I do know excludes the possibility by virtue of contradiction to what is real.

Since what we choose to belief influences subsequent choices and actions, often on a subconscious level, it behoves us to question the source and validity of anything and everything we believe. We are no less responsible for the beliefs we hold, whether by default of inheritance or by intention, than we are for the consequences of the actions that follow from them, not just our own but those of others whose beliefs we endorse as well.

Beliefs may be derived from make believe, but their consequences are no less real.

[sallybb]

Of course there is a God !!!!!. everyone knows he was an astronaut, who visited our earth from a far of place. Which explains a few miracles, because of his scientific brain and advanced technologies. Mary was able to give birth to Jesus even though she was a virgin, I believe she was must have been impregnated by artifical insemination. Those pesky experimenting astronauts. Tut Tut
But then again if you believe in his existence, that rubbishes the idea of evolution , the earth as we know it, has taken billions of years to evolve and still is evolving and will continue to do so, until the earth gets to close to the sun or to far from it.
Gods been around for billions of year, Gosh how old is he, about time he was laid to rest.

[sith123]

ok, can you say that in simple english lol :)

[mibn2cweus]

Beliefs don't tell us what we know, which is all we should believe.

Belief in any God, which by virtue of non-existence is invariably based on a lack of understanding, has no more justification than another's equally arbitrary belief that their God is better.

[Old_Geezer]

My God can whop your God with one hand tied behind his back !

[sith123]

the stuff about god from space...that doesnt make sence.

[sallybb]

It was said tongue in cheek.

[sith123]

that is why it does not make sense...anyway, why has the subject gone on to gods whooping each othere asses?

[RATTER15]

It makes more sense than the Bible!!!

[sallybb]

However, there is a very good book, 'Was God and Astronaut ?', perhaps you should read it some time.

[sith123]

no ratter15...it does not.

[RATTER15]

Yes sith123, It does!!!! :-)

[sith123]

an astronaut came to our planet...for starters astronauts ARE from this planet...they dont come to it.

[bigbadmarty]

So the bible makes sense does it ? Well apart from living in the belly of a whale , virgin births , instant cures for leprosy , knocking over walls with trumpets , turning water into wine and parting the Red Sea , it makes perfect sense to me .

[sith123]

im not a christian i am a muslim!