By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - General - What religion are you in?

I'm lutherian officially, but atheist as in terms of definion.

As what it comes to discussion about being strong atheist or weak atheist, the definion is a bit black and white.
I'm definately a strong atheist, although if someone can provide me the proof, that god, or any other flying spaghetti monster, exist, i'm willing to change my point of view. Anyway, just like stof said, possibilities are limitless by the logic, that god would exist. There just doesn't seem to be single possibility, that there would be a supernatural being, that would possess more energy, than what there is in the whole uni(or multi)verse.



Ei Kiinasti.

Eikä Japanisti.

Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.

 

Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.

Around the Network

Hinduism



Heeeeyyyy!!!! <Snap>

Objectivism. You guys should read Ayn Rand...



stof said:
Rath said:
@Stof.

But isn't it illogical to claim that something which cannot be proven to not exist can't exist?

Your right, but there are infinate possibilities of what can technically possibly exist.

Ultimately, we can never really prove or disprove anything. But we can't actually operate on that principal. I can't prove that you, I or videogames exist. I can't prove that I'm not a dream, and I can't prove that when I wake up in the morning and get out of bed that the floor won't dissapear and I'll float off in to nothingness. But I can't spend all day wrapped in my covers screaming that there might not be a floor.

Ultimately, we have to first acknwledge that nothing can ever truly be proven or disproven, and then we have to completely ignore that technicality.

I think the ideas behind it have already been described in this thread far better than I can.

 


 Ahh so you acknowledge the possibility that there could be a god, even though it is incredibaly unlikely. That was all that I was asking. 



Sorry to break it to you people but the God of the contemporary popular christian culture does not exist. Let me explain! The God that we view today is completely different than the judeo-christian God people viewed a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago etc. Thus the contemporary God is a nothing more than another version of God that changes every time we dicover another answer to life's mistery that we haden't previosly had the answer to, things like free will being added in the late middle ages to explain that the world is full of evil christians and that bad things happen to good people. Its not God's fault, its your fault!
Popular as in the fact that the peoples view of God differs wildly from the church officials view of God, thus most people just believe in the God on TV, or from the streets or just other people's opinion of God, plus every prist or pastor has diffrent way of viewing God. There is thus no unified view of God, and since they can't all be right, and about something as absolut as God you can't be somewhat right or a little wrong.. you can draw your own conclusions.
Christianity is hard to define since its split into so many forms of worship its embarissing for something that considers itself the absolute truth, to be so fragmented and contradicatory, the reason is obvious though, ofcourse christianity will split into a gagilion relgions if there is ZERO devine feedback, and belief is only defined by man and not God.
Plus our view of God has nothing to do with truth or reality, and everything to do with the culture you grow up in, how the easter bunny has anything to do with the resurection of Christ, or santa claus with the Birth of Christ is ridiculous, all of these so called christian traditions either having pagan or just damn corporate roots, and why God needs roman architecture to comunicate with his people is beyond me, thus aor view of God is as varied as our culture.
Therefore, if we combine all these elements we ariive to the conclusin that there are countles versions of Godm and they're aither all right, or all wrong, if we are to fallow logic ( whic is completely lacking in religion), The final and most simple answer is that the God of popular contemporary christian culture does not exist.
PS Officaily I'm an orthodox christian, but I consider myself more of a deist.



Around the Network

@Rath: It also depends on how you define god, many of us would say that Shigeru is a god, Ayrton Senna knew he was a god. Basically an extra terrestial, with superior technology could be a god to fundamentalists.
With a scientific mind, you really can't say that something isn't possible, unless it's proven impossible and vice versa. @kergeten: Why did you pick just christianity? It's after all the same thing with all religions.



Ei Kiinasti.

Eikä Japanisti.

Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.

 

Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.

bdbdbd said:
@Rath: It also depends on how you define god, many of us would say that Shigeru is a god, Ayrton Senna knew he was a god. Basically an extra terrestial, with superior technology could be a god to fundamentalists.
With a scientific mind, you really can't say that something isn't possible, unless it's proven impossible and vice versa.

 It depends on what you mean by proof.



fkusumot said:
bdbdbd said:
@Rath: It also depends on how you define god, many of us would say that Shigeru is a god, Ayrton Senna knew he was a god. Basically an extra terrestial, with superior technology could be a god to fundamentalists.
With a scientific mind, you really can't say that something isn't possible, unless it's proven impossible and vice versa.

 It depends on what you mean by proof.


Undeniable evidence. Now, i can prove that i exist, but i can't prove that i am a god.

Ei Kiinasti.

Eikä Japanisti.

Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.

 

Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.

Darwinism



No religion over here, but my mind is boggled over how many believe in fairy tales.



Getting an XBOX One for me is like being in a bad relationship but staying together because we have kids. XBone we have 20000+ achievement points, 2+ years of XBL Gold and 20000+ MS points. I think its best we stay together if only for the MS points.

Nintendo Treehouse is what happens when a publisher is confident and proud of its games and doesn't need to show CGI lies for five minutes.

-Jim Sterling