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Do you believe in any god?

Yes 63 36.21%
 
No 111 63.79%
 
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SpokenTruth said:
Immersiveunreality said:

Also had catechism as a child but we did not really have a choice.

I find it curious you decided to go to church to try to clear your mind after being so sceptical about it,do you live in a community with a lot of churchgoers that may have influenced you to do that or was this decision solely your own ?

This question reminds of one I've had over the years.

For those that do attend church, is it the same religion and/or denomination as your parents?  I just find it interesting that those who say they found God or Jesus don't seem to look very far from home.

Imo it might be sometimes unknowingly be about finding community and a feeling you belong to it,it takes the weight of the world off some peoples shoulder.(partly)

An yes the thing closest to home is what is mostly the easiest to accept,what we know gives us less stress or instead we might feel pressured to accept.



Flilix said:
No, I don't believe in anything for which there aren't any rational indications or explanations.

Human reasoning hasn't gotten to the god level. At least, we can explain air, which we don't see. Someday, we can explain better.



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JWeinCom said:
Oneeee-Chan!!! said:
No,but I think it's good to have faith.

How do you define faith, and why is it a good thing when it comes to god?  Would it be good in other aspects of life?  For example, to have faith in politicians?

I just replied to the thread title.

Why do you ask me like that ?

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craighopkins said:
Please have faith in Jesus Christ. Tomorrow is not gauranteed.
Jesus said ""Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters."" Luke 11:23

Anakin Skywalker also said that.



I'll leave this here, Bieber explains it better than me.

I am the same. I was not a believer, never forced to be one but I was in the dark and Jesus pulled me out. That is my proof. Jesus said "Come and you shall see" John 1:39



don't mind my username, that was more than 10 years ago, I'm a different person now, amazing how people change ^_^

Religion is simply a political and commercial system to control people. It's strange how it's still so powerful in this day and age and how common it is to believe in a god, yet someone who believes in aliens is considered a crazy person.



Fragenstein said:
Religion is simply a political and commercial system to control people. It's strange how it's still so powerful in this day and age and how common it is to believe in a god, yet someone who believes in aliens is considered a crazy person.

control them in doing what exactly?

I find this statement very outdated, just look at the results of this poll... the only system that controls people today is the media (of any kind), enforcing atheism and globalization



don't mind my username, that was more than 10 years ago, I'm a different person now, amazing how people change ^_^

There are entirely too many levels to why I don't believe in God.

1 - There's no evidence, only faith (which is the belief in something without evidence)
2 - I generally don't trust people, so when it comes down to faith vs facts, I literally always go on the side of facts.
3 - According to everything we've learned, virtually everything in the bible is physically impossible or proven wrong (young-earth?)
4 - You can't just say 'God is all-knowing' as a blanket statement to explain away anything that breaks the laws of physics or logic.
5 - 99% of all 'unexplained phenomena' have completely rational explanations
6 - Again, you can't just say 'yeah, well god did it' as a blanket statement to take credit for everything
7 - Religion is a scam. god may very well be real, but Religion is bad. Causes wars, pushes outdated values, actively campaigns against progress.
8 - There are literally thousands of religions, many of them WILDLY different from one another. NOTHING in science or history leans more towards one or another religion.
9 - Even within each of those thousands of religions, there's a virtually infinite number of ways to interpret them
10 - All of this is nebulous and ethereal, yet somehow every religious person feels it's rigid and unflappable.
11 - Science is hard and proven and consistent, yet willing to change as more evidence is unveiled.

I'm always going to go with the belief system that can offer real answers, accepts when it doesn't know something, works to learn more and expand its knowledge, and can be proven. I will never go with a belief system that is completely at odds with what we observe and can prove, has many followers that refuse to change with the times or update its knowledge based on provable facts, and is just nebulous enough that any of its followers can chose to interpret it as they see fit while also using that nebulous nature to explain away anything they don't like or don't understand or has been proven wrong.

One of these belief systems deserves your respect. One of them does not. I chose science. There very well may be a god, but I'm quite certain that the concept of 'God' was invented by humans to serve as an explanation for that which we could not understand, and because it's so widespread, it clung to civilization long past its use-by date. What we have with religion is tradition trumping progress, and that's actively bad.

If there is a god, I guarantee no one earth religion got it right. Almost a 0% chance of that being the case. 



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Oneeee-Chan!!! said:
JWeinCom said:

How do you define faith, and why is it a good thing when it comes to god?  Would it be good in other aspects of life?  For example, to have faith in politicians?

I just replied to the thread title.

Why do you ask me like that ?

I was curious about your position.  If you're not interested in discussing it, then that's fine.



Immersiveunreality said:
Alex_The_Hedgehog said:

I'm catholic because of my parents, but they never forced me into it. When I was a kid, I enjoyed going to church and catechism with my friends and family. When I entered my early adult years, I stopped caring about religion. I didn't became atheist or anything, I just stopped it.

However, when I found out that I had mental illness, my mom suggested me to start going to church again (and of course, taking my medicine too). I accepted, and to my surprise, the Catholic Mass was quite relaxing, and helped me to calm down. I even talked to the priest about my problems, and he suggested me to trust my psychiatrist. I guess you find some sort of confort believing in God.

To answer your question, I have some very religious friends, but they are from other religions. One of them, when I was ill, asked me to go with him to his church. I went, but... Somehow, I didn't feel good there. Also, his mom was clearly trying to get me out of catholicism, so it was kind of a weird situation.

Oh alright so you were never really seperated from that religion but you only had a looser bond with it for a while and that made you more able to feel closely connected to it again when you needed peace of mind.

How did you found out you had mental illness and why did you not notice that at first stead,were you unaware of being depressed for a while or did this involve influence from others?

I had depression symptoms since I was a teen, but my doctor prescribed a medication that was kinda working for a while. But in 2017, I started to have anxiety crisis. My doctor changed my medicine, but it was starting to make me even worse.

Then, I changed to another doctor, and he prescribed me a new medication and a whole new treatment. That was when I accepted to return to church as well. Both seems to be working really nice, since I didn't had any other crisis.

Later I was diagnosed with OCD.

I don't want to believe it, but sometimes I think my first doctor was trying to get me hospitalized, because I was feeling very bad with his medication, and he refused to change it. He said he would send me to a mental hospital if I didn't get better. But as soon as I started a new treatment with a new doctor I got so much better.

And I think going back to the church helped my mind too.