Do you believe in God?

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<p>I don't consciously believe anything.</p>

<p>I may be defined as God.</p>

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<p>^I'm with you on the first part, GeekNerd.</p>

<p>Mostly the reason why I don't believe in God, or anything for that matter, is because I see no need for a God, or anything, and therefore no reason to believe in a God/anything.</p>

<p>I'd consider being either a Buddhist or Wiccan if they didn't require that spirituality stuff. Oh, and that whole faith thing, which I kind of don't get.</p>

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<p>Please explain, why is this?</p>

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<p>Can you give me a few examples of assertions whose falsity can be verified?</p>

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<p>Yes, I do. I think there is ONE GOD in this world, and coincidentally, it's the same God that every religion believes in(Allah = Jewish God(?) = Christian God, etc). But i don't think it matters much. In the end, every religion serves the same purpose and takes whoever believes down to the same path.</p>

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<p>Pyroclasm, why?</p>

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<p>Pyroclasm, have you read the news lately? How is the world organized and beautiful when there's so much conflict going on? Maybe the world is beautiful in your eyes because you are not exposed to what's going on.</p>

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<p>May each of you accept the only true lord and master, FSM as your savior. I pray that his noodly appendage reaches out and touches each of your hearts and hopefully you will convert and give up your heathen ways. RAmen.</p>

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<p>^OMG ANOTHER PASTAFARIAN!! Ramen.</p>

<p>alexkaye, what about polytheistic religions? Or what about religions like Buddhism, where there isn't really a "god", just someone to help you attain spiritual enlightenment?</p>

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Can you give me a few examples of assertions whose falsity can be verified?

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Conventional binary logic immediately dismisses the negations of tautologies. Are these enough, honey?</p>

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<p>If a God exists may he strike everyone on CC down.</p>

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<p>^ including yourself?</p>

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<p>I'm entirely agnostic. I just can't see how, with what we have to go with right now, we can assume we "know" for sure either way.</p>

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<p>Lumine ^ finally, someone shares my point of view</p>

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<p>"God is Dead' - nietsche</p>

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I'm entirely agnostic. I just can't see how, with what we have to go with right now, we can assume we "know" for sure either way.

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<p>The point is that it's completely absurd to even think of god in the first place if nothing can be known either way. Making an assertion that cannot be proven is pointless and doesn't expand anyones knowledge.</p>

<p>I can say right now that there's a mystical purple unicorn on the edge of the known universe with a pixy riding on its back that is controlling the motion of the universe. Whenever the pixy tickles the unicorn's ear, the unicorn will sneeze and a star will explode. </p>

<p>That statement is as verifiable as the existence of a god is, and yet people who believe in god will tell me that it is obviously absurd, since that can never happen. And it obviously is absurd. The existence of something that can never be proven is a stupid debate, and just because something cannot be proven does not mean that it is as equally likely to exist as something else. </p>

<p>All saying you believe in god does is basically allow you to give up on the search for knowledge. If you say "I don't know" then you might actually care when science decides to explain something, whereas if you say "god did it" then you are basically stagnant and satisfied with an answer that a.) makes no sense, b.) has no intellectual value, and c.) is unverifiable.</p>

<p>Also, this is basically what you said with agnostic, but in my opinion the belief in a god should not be given the same weight as the belief in no god. You shouldn't step to "I don't know if a god exists" and give the assertion of a god some weight, but rather you should say "I don't know how the universe was created", which is a much better way to think about it. Saying you don't know if god exists as an agnostic is essentially the same as saying "i don't know if the purple unicorn and pixy exist"; they each hold the same weight and each are equally unproven and as equally unlikely.</p>

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<p>^Good post! :)</p>