Do you believe or not believe in God?

[Glori.B]

"A word for nonbelievers
Billboard on I-95 reaches out to atheists in the region.
By David O'Reilly

Inquirer Staff Writer

With its image of blue sky and fluffy clouds, the rectangle floating lately over I-95 near Allegheny Avenue suggests something dreamy, almost heavenly.
At least from a distance.

Drivers headed north toward the giant billboard might first discern the words God and Believe and suppose this to be the work of a fundamentalist church.

But this is the work of no church.

"Don't believe in God?" it asks. "You are not alone."

Think of it as a sign of the times.

......"

A word for nonbelievers | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/05/2008


I wonder if at USMB believers outnumber non believers or vice versa.

i checked off agnostic, but i think i should probably describe myself as an agnostic theist...

 

[manifold]

My intuition is that there is... something, some sort of transendent unity underlying physical reality. I find it difficult to believe that chaos is the one fundemental guiding principle behind the history of the universe.

I also find it difficult to believe that this something is a god with an even vaugely human-like mind, directing events according to a thought-out plan. To me, the notion that God created us in his image does not ring true.

I don't know. I got such mixed messages about God and religion as a kid that I have no default belief to either fall back on or rebel against, so I'm stuck with my vauge intuitions based on all the brutality and beauty of the world around me and on what I can conceive of my own nature.

If I had to guess, I'd say that there is a God, and that It is unlike anything any human has ever imagined.

Perhaps you start your own religious movement, and call it neo-deism.

 

[Anguille]

They can be pretty useful to beat someone to death with.

 

[Anguille]

Perhaps you start your own religious movement, and call it neo-deism.

Only men can start new religions on this board.

"so and so could start his own religion"

 

[Ravi]

Only men can start new religions on this board.

"so and so could start his own religion"

Sexism. It's everywhere.

 

[manifold]

Only men can start new religions on this board.

"so and so could start his own religion"

I don't think that's a prerequisite technically speaking, it's just that men tend to be better leaders.

 

[Anguille]

I don't think that's a prerequisite technically speaking, it's just that men tend to be better leaders.

Is that a crutch you're carrying in your avatar?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I don't think that's a prerequisite technically speaking, it's just that men tend to be better leaders.

Men and Man is a Generic term for the Human race. Easier then always typing man or woman/ Men or women, maybe we need a new word, MOW, ohh wait that is taken ) Maybe MOF. Wait to close to muff. ) Maybe in a nod to our female types Wom, ohh wait that won't work either. FOM?

 

[Glori.B]

it's just that men tend to be better leaders.

yeah, good job men!

i'm looking so forward to that mushroom cloud! thanks!

 

[RetiredGySgt]

yeah, good job men!

i'm looking so forward to that mushroom cloud! thanks!

No fears, Obama will just sell out to anyone that threatens us. Or give them anything they want to achieve " Peace in our time" Everyone does remember what happened after that phrase was used last?

 

[manifold]

yeah, good job men!

i'm looking so forward to that mushroom cloud! thanks!

So you like shrooms huh? Right on sister, right on!

 

[Shogun]

I believe in God.

Abelian Sea, the reason we want justice and know the difference from fair and unfair, right or wrong is because we were made in the image of God who is just and fair. Einstein proved after the Big Bang theory that there is a God, that the universe was created and possibly has a purpose. Now which God you believe in is a different story.


I would love to talk to some of you on a more intimate level regarding this. @anyone, Fill free to PM me.

MEEEEEEP.


wrong.


feel free to post your evidence though.

 

[Shogun]

So you like shrooms huh? Right on sister, right on!

hilarious.

 

[Anguille]

MEEEEEEP.


wrong.


feel free to post your evidence though.

People read what ever suits their purpose into Einstein's writings, just like they do with the Bible, slices of burnt toast, etc.

 

[Jimmy28031]

All three choises are the same thing. They all mean a belife that there is know God. I am a christan and fully belive in God. If you want to have an true read out of the poll, then you must add something that shows christans as a part of the poll. Not a bunch of words that try ti confuse the the person taken the poll.

 

[AllieBaba]

Crutches aren't useful unless you are crippled.

I think I know what you mean. Blind faith excuses you from the hard work of serious thought. I personally try not to have blind faith that God is a fictional character, I try to be as open minded towards religion as I would like religious people to be towards my own beliefs. But it isn't always easy.
I am surprised though, that this poll has so far shown that non believers, etc outnumber believers on this board. I would have thought it would be the other way around.

If you think faith excuses you from the "hard work of serious thought" you are sadly misguided. Believers must deal with serious issues, with their own wayward thoughts and constantly be second guessing themselves, trying to determine the correct thing and decipher meaning from the world around them and the tools of their faith.

 

[Gungnir]

Thor lives and Mjolnir swings!

Axe grinding orthodoxy quaker deism right here.

 

[Gunny]

"God" has to be nothing more than a life force of some kind capable of creation, and beyond Man's realm of understanding.

A creator, IMO, makes FAR more sense than any of the alternate theories offered up; especially, since those theories contain MAJOR flaws and contradict the science that supposedly supports them.

 

[Shogun]

People read what ever suits their purpose into Einstein's writings, just like they do with the Bible, slices of burnt toast, etc.

oh I know.. quotes mean nothing.


Then again, I saw a thomas jefferson poster at a christian bookstore last week too so..

 

[Alucard]

You know what I find funny.....You'll all believe on you death bed... Big tough talkers... I just wish I could get the opportunity to watch you squirm when the time comes