Can God be killed?

[TheLivingShadow]

nuckles87 said:

llewdebkram said:
You can't kill something that hasn't ever existed.
You can kill the idea of the thing (God) existing which is rapidly being done thanks to the internet, but there will always be people that choose not to look at the facts because they lack the intelligence, it's too painful to believe there is no God or are scared what might happen if they don;'t believe.

Believing in god has nothing to do with intelligence. This is just something aethiests say to make themselves feel superior.

No, one's belief in god depends on how one was raised, the culture they were born into, how they grow up and live. It is their experiences and where they were born that shapes what one believes in.

I was born into a more or less agnostic household and came to believe that the Christian, Islamic and Jewish gods do not exist at around age 10, a few years after I stopped believing in Santa and the Easter bunny. I looked back at how many religions in the past have died, asked myself what makes OUR religions any more true, aside from the fact that they aren't defunct, and decided that these gods were not real.

Most believers are raised to believe in something from birth, though.

It does have to do with critical thinking though, which can be applied selectively. But the ability to think critically depends on intelligence too, which is why some say that atheists are more intelligent, which is not necessarily true.

Because critical thought can be applied selectively (meaning, to whatever one desires to apply it), there can be (and are) plenty of intelligent people who believe in God because they've never decided to doubt their faith.