Do you believe in god?

[Captain Vegetable]

Originally posted by ruhztee
100% Atheist.

Red eggs? I don't get it.

[FuryFox]

No, I do not believe in "God". I'm undecided about powers greater than what we as people can comprehend, since there will always be something beyond the realm of human understanding, but "God" as it has been conceptualized so far doesn't suit me.

[ruhztee]

Originally posted by Captain Vegetable
Red eggs? I don't get it.

Red eyes, douchenuts. =)
Eggs = huevos.

[ginaman]

No.

Agnostic.

[remotec]

I am completely convinced there's a higher power beyond our reach. But whether that power is a god-like figure, I have no idea. The energy that created the universe could simple have come from the side effect of something else, it's not necessarily deliberate. But that "something else" must exist IMO.

[Curtis]

My philosophy? Whatever gets you through the night, as long as it doesn't try to muscle itself on others. Conversation and exchange of ideas is good, but random threats of enternal damnation aren't so good.

The trick is, anyone could have written anything in that book, said it was from God, and whaddaya know? It wasn't. According to it, aren't women second banana in every sense? Weren't Cain and Able the two children of the only two people alive? After killing his brother, didn't Cain go off and find some woman to marry in the land of Nod?

Kids, we don't even have to leave the first book and it doesn't match up.

I believe in God, and I believe in a vast number of things as well. One of them is that until people stop looking as something as the only way to happiness, escape from damnation, whatever, we will not stop killing each other like idiots.

Out of all this talk of peace and love, people fight their respective dogma's like some type of twisted pokemon. When Jesus doesn't send down his fireball strike to counter Allah's thundrbolt attack that was never there to begin with, they go and get pissed; they might even decide to bring about their God's wrath on their own.

To your left, you'll see a Christian on the roof across from that abortion clinic with a high powered rifle. To your right, Mr. Islam 2k1 flying a plane... Looking mighty pissed and oh-so-ever determined.

Find whatever it is that you need, find it for yourself and note that it is, in fact, what YOU need. That's one of the few principles I think is fairly universal, and it's avoided en masse because it requires doing something for yourself.

Hell, look at the Krishna. All of these lovely ideas from a happy man who did not believe in God. OF COURSE he didn't believe in God. Anyone hand picked by a bunch of idiots to bring them closer to divine truth is obviously going to find comfort in the idea that there is none. And yet he was a peaceful, happy man who led a long, happy life.

Prescribed dogma is a crutch in 99.999% of examples. Christianity, in everything it stands for, just might be right for a few out there who practice it, but the odds of that being everyone who practices it are non existant. My family is all the example I need for that.

... I don't have a closer. Fuck.

[Rich]

I believe that a higher being, God, sparked the universe and set everything into motion and nature took it's course from there. I also believe (or should I say hope?) that there is an afterlife. Finally, I believe that Jesus Chris was in fact God.

[CynicalSphere]

Originally posted by Captain Vegetable
I think you mean you're an Athiest, not Agnostic. Athiests believe in nothing, or don't care to believe in anything. Agnostics believe in "a higher power," but don't go so far as to characterize it, or name it, such as Jesus, Bhudda, or Allah.

Actually, that's wrong.

Agnosticism the belief that a higher being is unknown and/or unknowable, or unimportant.

Atheism simply means believing that there is no higher power, although some extend it to "not believing in a higher power" (no, they don't mean the same thing, because agnostics could also fit under the latter definition).

Nihilism is the belief in nothing.

Deism is the school of belief that says there is a higher, uncharacterized power, but the actual beliefs of deists are highly varied.

Personally, I am a Christian, though very lax on dogma, very much against the organization of religion, and very critical of the actions of other Christians.

I don't care to discuss every belief of mine in detail, but I will say that I practice the religion because I believe that it is a message of discipline, salvation, and love. I do not practice it because of some claim of special knowledge or for some pretense of exclusivity or whatever. In matters of faith, I think I care more about who is the First and Last rather than what came at the first, or will come at the last.

I used to be a regular holy roller, but watching the actions of others that profess my religion caused me to lose my faith for several years until I found it again. That's why you'll never hear me spouting off about how God is going to throw someone into a firey pit or whatever. Any Christian that opens his or her eyes knows that kind of behavior will only create a shitload of resentment towards the faith and in most cases will not help anyone at all.

All that prattle aside, I think that a more important question than "Is there a god" is something akin to "How should I act, regardless of whether there is a god or not?"

[Omni]

Originally posted by Rich
I believe that a higher being, God, sparked the universe and set everything into motion and nature took it's course from there. I also believe (or should I say hope?) that there is an afterlife. Finally, I believe that Jesus Chris was in fact God.

That's pretty much what I believe (did I tell you that or something? ) minus the Jesus Christ part. He may be some incarnation of God, but I just don't know.

[Punky Skunk]

My thinking is in line with Dolemite's 1st paragraph. I'll take secular humanism over any religion.