the one reason!

[sherminator]

Just a little exercise for believers and athiests. If you had to pick the one main reason why you do or don't believe in god(s) what would it be?
I'm actually going to cop out cause im still trying to decide what the main reason is for myself why i dont believe but am very keen to hear other peoples thoughts on this.

Thank you

[mibn2cweus]

Reason is the reason. Why should I believe in something that cannot be perceived or rationally conceived; that explains nothing while posing as an explanation; that demands an act of faith and a rejection of logic to be believed?

Ultimately, I believe you'll find a belief in god(s) has very little to do with reason.

[joggerjayne]

God exists because Man needs Him.

If God did not exist, Man would create Him.

[daffy654]

Proof.........irrefutable scientific proof would sway it for me. I am more of an agnostic than an athiest though.

[joggerjayne]

How does one pronounce "mibn2cweus" ?

[mibn2cweus]

joggerjayne, You can't be cweus? ;o)

[jake-the-peg]

The immortal soul - without it not just Christianity but all religion fails

Without the immortal soul "God" is just a supremely intelligent extra-terrestrial with no interest in us.

Yet the soul, the conciousness cannot survive death - we know in many cases that "spark" cannot survive life where a severe head injury causes memory loss and personality change.

There aer other reasons - in terms of things like who creates the creator etc. but for me the crux of the matter is the immortal soul

[naomi24]

Good question, Sherminator. For many years I've studied 'God', and have concluded that he wasn't who religion tells us he was.

[sara3]

there is too much suffering in the world for me to believe in god.

[Seadragon]

Since I'm feeling down anyway. I believe in God since he, and yes to me he is male, offers me support and I feel a love when I think about him. And when I say he, him - I mean a male presence not an image. I really don't care if there is irrefutable hard evidence that God does not exist. I need the support of a father-figure, the feeling of really being unquestionably loved and cared for that is so lacking in my real relationship with my father and the other male relationships in my life. And the feeling of this love prevents me being the bitter person I could be everytime I see a father-daughter relationship of someone else, knowing that I can never have that. A belief in God can be very personal, it doesn't have to subscribe to a doctrine.

[ll_billym]

For me it is the lack of evidence.

If he came and sat at the end of my bed, had a chat about Jesus and created a universe then I would have to admit I was wrong on this one.

But until that, or something to that effect happens then I have no proof he exists and nor does anybody else therefore I see no reason why should I believe in something with a premise as far fetched as God(s).

[chakka35]

I'm with ll_billym. I always say that my non-belief in God is no different from, and no more significant than, my non-belief in Santa Claus. They are both supernatural creatures who do magical things and for whose existence there is not a scrap of evidence.
There is no obligation on a non-believer to explain himself; it is for believers to explain their extraordinary thinking. They never can, of course.

[Mr Veritas]

I believed in an (Anglican) God until something happened in 1945.
I have bored people on AB with it before,so will only tell you,if you REALLY want to know.
Alec.

[Seadragon]

Gosh! Alec I REALLY want to know - Since you raised it.

[blackeyed]

i know God is there because i can feel Him.
We can't see,taste,hear, touch or smell our thoughts or our soul but we know they are there the same is with God.

[Ankou]

more tings have happened to confirm to me that there is no gods, than that there is.

[sherminator]

Sorry for starting a thread and not even contributing!
But I can't answer my own question!!! I really can't place what the over riding thing is..... I spuppose is that no one has seen or heard from him apart from 2000 years ago when he was really active and then nothing since?

[naomi24]

Like Seadragon, I'd really like to know too, Alec.

[Mr Veritas]

Well Seadragon & Naomi,I have told this before so my apologies if you have heard it.
In 1945 I was with the first British regiment to relieve a nazi concentration camp,and what I saw there turned me into an Aetheist overnight.

[naomi24]

Alec, Thanks for telling us. My father was there too - and he said the same.

[jackthehat]

Last Saturday my father was as close to death as it was possible to be (he's since rallied remarkably well, so no sympathy needs to be offered...........:o) ) and terrified as I was at the prospect of losing him, I didn't feel in the least bit inclined to offer up a prayer for his survival...........

I think there has always been (and despite my best efforts to eradicate it) a little residue of a lifetimes experience of the Christian religiosity at large in society lurking in my psyche somewhere..........

...........and I didn't feel the need to call on the big sky-pilot for any sort of comfort.

I have finally grown up !!!!!! :o)