Do you believe in god?

[Sri Lumpa]

Grey Acumen said:

dtewi said:

Well if God did exist, being a perfect and omnipotent being, the Universe would be subject to him.

Pretty much, the only issue at that point is whether you are willing to accept/believe that.

 

dtewi said:
I think right now I am leaning more to athiesm more than ever.

Like I have said, Religion is inspired by fear. People are afraid to be punished by God by breaking the commandments or commiting sins. They have a fear of hell. This causes people to be good. Their reward is heaven.

People cause their reality to be overshadowed. They are so desperate to overcome their fears or gain a reward that they want to believe in something that will make it true. But the thing that they want to believe in is without any proof.

Religion is a mix of Faith and politics. you shouldn't place the faults of the politics on that of the faith. wether belief in god is present or not, people will still attempt to control other people through fear and ignorance. The belief in god allows you to realize that no matter what position of authority a person is in, there are things that are right and things that are wrong regardless of what they say. If you claim that as a reason to stop believing in god, all you'll have left is the politics, and then everything has gone straight to the shithole.

When the politic is influenced by the faith then yes you should. It doesn't mean that a more innocuous faith cannot be fashioned from the same textual source, just that it is not the same faith.

Also, with reference to the bolded part: I totally agree; so much that i even apply this principle to god (and so do you each time you reject another religious belief or a part of the bible you do not like).