<p>My perception on life so far.
Frankly, I don't know if God exists or not.
If God did exist, I would believe life is all about fate and destiny.
If God doesn't exist, merely morals come into play. If God doesn't exist, the sense of judgement would be false, simply artificial. Who are we to judge what is right and wrong. </p>
<p>Why does life have to be almost like a puzzle without the pieces?
Yes, I did go to a Christian church all my life. Hypocrites and lots of biased judgmental people go to church (Atleast where I went to). Oh yeah, some people even go just to date girls. Others say that people go to church for the satisfaction of comfort to believe we don't come from the ground.</p>
<p>The fact is, no one knows whether God exists or not. Religion is principally about faith.</p>
<p>I know what you mean though. I stopped going to church after I realized that church and politics were starting to get mixed. I don't like religion being associated with a political agenda (nor do I like Christian theatre companies in Pigeon Forge, TN taking out a full page ad in the USA Today worth about $90k just to say, "Screw you, Kathy Griffin.")</p>
<p>How about a 3rd option; god exists but not in the form which we believe is based off of fate/destiny. Why would the church's definition of god be the only valid one out there? If one believes that the church is misguided in knowing the true power of god, it doesn't mean that there is no god. In my belief, there are too many things that happen in this world that cannot just be chalked up to be mere coincidence. God is sort of everything that we cannot explain (thus, religion cannot it either). But on the same line, I'm a huge believer in karma and free will in that we make our own destiny. Just like to point that out</p>
<p>I think I believe in a God, but I don't know if I can take in everything that church has taught me. Still, with or without a god, I think morals are pretty universal. Religion doesn't really solve any gray areas either.
Yeah, I also used to go to a christian church and the same type of people were way too prevalent in the church...I stopped going last year.</p>
<p>There is no logical reason to believe in God. Our lack of explanation is not proof for God it is just a lack of understanding.</p>
<p>Man created god. Therefore how is it possible for morals to come from God? Morals come from evolution and are innate in the normal human. It is easy to know what is right in simple moral cases. Is it right to steal? No. Is it right to kill? No. </p>
<p>Who are we to judge how to live our lives? We are the only one to judge our lives. Judge things with your mind. Use reason to see if something is moral or not. Would you rather have some arbitrary omniscient decider exist that will torture you from not believing in his morals that include stoning gays.</p>
<p>You are right no one knows if God exists. This is just because nothing can be disproven. God is just as likely as a flying pink unicorn. No matter how much we wish God or the unicorn to exist, reality will not be denied.</p>
<p>I don't believe in God. I believe in an un-interfering great spirit which connects all of us, which is how I believe in karma, because everything is connected. </p>
<p>I believe in reincarnation which judges you based on your actions, which I suppose you could construe as a God. </p>
<p>I FIRMLY don't believe in the Judeo-Christian representation of a God who purposely puts "sin" in our lives to screw us up. I don't believe how an all-powerful and all-loving God could allow his children to suffer and purposely put obstacles in one's way. But, as I am Wiccan, I do believe in a Great Spirit (the One) which doesn't interact in our daily actions but rather is just a connecting spirit between all of our spirits. </p>
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<p>Morals do not come from evolution. It is not ok to kill here, but in many Middle Eastern countries it is perfectly ok to kill a woman who cheats. How can that be? No, morals are not "innate" because then everybody would have the same morals, and as any reasonablely cultured human knows, no two cultures have the same morals and some are drastically different from others. Ever heard of the Waorani?</p>
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<p>Have you ever looked at the ontological argument? I personally reject it as fallacious, but if you're trying to look for logical arguments for God, it's a good starting point. I think that if there is any hope for trying to demonstrate the existence of God, it's in a philosophical argument. I'm a Jain, and we don't believe in God.</p>
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<p>I think there are good reasons to consider certain actions right and others wrong. We have to determine right and wrong through reason - actions most likely to be helpful to oneself and society are "right". The only instances in which we should not be able to make judgments about others is when we lack evidence regarding the circumstances (and usually, we have enough to make a judgment with a reasonably high degree of accuracy). Of course, there are some instances which will require much more careful consideration than others.</p>
<p>I believe in free will, but not in the sense that many others do. Few today argue that we have complete control over our lives, especially in the face of all these discoveries about genetics. I think that most of our decisions are caused by behavioral conditioning and genetics (especially the former), and that only be identifying some of these factors that cause our decision-making can we actually begin to choose our decisions, and therefore the experiences that influence our later decisions.</p>
<p>How many Wiccans are in America? I personally never heard of them until it was in Boston Legal and were reflected very nicely!</p>
<p>I'm a Christian believer but yet have not lived a life attempting to reach out to God. I'm afraid He'll consume me and divert me from my goals. So I believe in Him, I'm scared to reach out though as I'm afraid I'll fall...</p>
<p>Thats just my opinion and there is no right or wrong obviously, its just my raw feelings.</p>
<p>I don't know if God exists or not. I used to be a practicing Christian, but I've come to the conclusion that the church is... misguided, at best.</p>
<p>I don't believe morals are innate or the product of evolution. Morals were created by man to maintain a stable society. It's a small step from "you will go to jail if you steal" to "you will go to hell if you steal." If a ruler cannot inforce his own laws, it would make sense to invent a deity who can.</p>
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<p>Questions of morality are not always so intuitive. Is it right for a starving boy to steal a loaf of bread? Is it right to kill in self-defense?</p>
<p>"Morals come from evolution and are innate in the normal human"
Interesting, according to the bible, the first born human, Cain, murdered his own brother.</p>
<p>I believe in a "god" in the sense that there is a force that unites everything, despite this chaotic universe. That "force" is made up of energy, like everything else, and can be proven by science. It makes up everything and binds it together. It made the universe. I don't know if this makes any sense but I believe it. It's like Deism, in a way.</p>
<p>I often "want" to believe in God, but despite all my best efforts I simply cannot get there. The idea of a meaningless existence capped off by eternal nothingness in death is just too much for some people to accept, I guess.</p>