Do you believe in God? Why/Why not?

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superchunk said:

You are not attempting to fill your curiosity or interest in 'why' someone believes.

Uh. Yes I am. Hence why I am asking for the evidence that justify's your position.
I think what you don't understand is that I was a church going theist once, this isn't my first Rodeo.

superchunk said:

Your goal is to debate and ridicule.

My goal is most certainly to debate because debate drives discussion forwards.
Ridiculing? Most certainly not, I haven't called anyone a "Joke" yet.

superchunk said:

As I stated from the beginning, there is no measurable data to prove or disprove the existence of God.

Then that means there is no measurable reason to believe in it.

superchunk said:

However, it can be interesting to learn why people choose to believe what they believe without the need to prove your belief to them.

I agree. But if I believe someone is incorrect... You can bet your ass I will call them out on it, I have always been that way on these forums, don't expect anything less.

superchunk said:

RE: You childish poor attempt to debate my sentence...

No need for name calling.
If you cannot handle a debate, then leave the thread.

superchunk said:

Universities have a religious studies or divinity degrees.  It's where you can learn about the world's religions, religious history, etc. It's goal is not to convert or prove the basis of any concept of God. In addition to reading pretty much every core religious text for the main world religions, I kicked off my university career with divinity as my chosen degree until I realized I wanted to actually make money at some point and moved to Computer Science. This very deep and personal drive lasted about a decade (before university and first 2 years) before I was consumed by CS.

I get that, but religion itself is based around the idea of a God existing.
Why would you bother wasting your time studying Religion if the very founding concept of said religion cannot be proven to have a shred of evidence to support it's hypothesis?

Why not just roll the claims that have been found to be accurate into History? At-least then the claims that have evidence will be reflected in an appropriate, concise, constructive  manner with minimal indoctrination.

superchunk said:

Also there is no "we" picking apart my position. I'm not attempting to argue or debate a position. There is only you attempting to win a debate that doesn't exist.

False.

superchunk said:

This continued behavior of yours is why my first response to you asked why you felt threatened in my belief as evidenced by your position of continued aggression and belligerence in this entire thread.

False.

superchunk said:

It also comes out in your mention of your personal church experience to my suggestion to someone else to just drop in and check out a UU congregation. Apples and Cheeseburgers man... apples and cheeseburgers.

I live in a "City" with a population of around 14,000. There isn't exactly a large selection of Churches.
With that in mind... They don't deserve my support anyway, I wouldn't even care if tomorrow they were all shut down.

I am of the very strong belief that Church isn't necessary in the modern era and the modern world would be better off without it, they are essentially just an outlet of fake information/news and discrimination.