I believe in me. You are all being perceived by me. And anything I cannot perceive is not in the realm of existence.
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We can't know. And that's fine.
Whatever started the physical process that created us is pretty fucking crazy. I bet it's a simulation.
So many people in this thread were traumatized from church lol. God isn't inherently a bad or stupid idea... just depends on how you define God.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. โ Seneca
If there is a god, it takes a special sadist to allow the amount of torment present on earth.
So I prefer to believe there's no higher spirit ravelling in the suffering of all creatures rather than there being a malevolent creator watching with glee as we die a slow, painful death.
No, but I don't want to rule it out completely. I there is, it's probably nothing like anyone has every thought about. There's a lot about the universe we don't know. I think it's a bit foolish to claim for certain things when we know so little about the universe. One day, it might be possible to measure the soul with scientific equipment, and future people may look back on us and think, "Wow, they actually believed they were only organic, not even realizing they have a quantum soul," the same way we look back at people who thought the earth was the center of the universe.
The world is a complicated place, and what we say now may look foolish or ahead of its time 100 years from now.
Agreed, well said. This train of thought is why I've never been able to identify as an atheist.
I don't see any evidence for evolution creating new species. None
Yes
No, but I wish God was real.
Humans are not evolved enough past our selfishness. If we all lived believing that our actions are being judged by a benevolent father figure, we'd have less people screwing each other over.
But please, don't make it the jealous, plague invoking version that needs a constant stream of souls sacrificed, from the old testament.
I guess that's inevitable. If you think that there is a maker, then you'd have to also explain things like natural disasters. Which leads to thinking that God is mad at us.
This is not considering the corruption of the people in charge.
Most of humanity legitmatly believed in some kind of god for most of history. It didn't stop people from screwing each other over.
True.
Nope and those that do are inherently harmful
No. There hasn't been any evidence to convince me of the existence of such an entity.
Nope. Can't understand the reasoning behind "some dude has always existed, you can't see him though or touch him or anything, but he created everything! Also only we few know about this and only recently! All the other beliefs are wrong." Where would a giant fairy come from? No idea.
Spent a good while searching for evidence as a doubting kid. Didn't find anything. I realized the absurdity later on of believing in ghosts and psychics and magic when one of the defining qualities is how they can't be recorded or even reproduced scientifically.
God loves you, watches you, judges you and can do anything, but he won't move a leaf on the floor to tell a crying bullied kid to hold on to hope, that he exists. God is such a human-centric thing anyway. Humans are specks of nothingness, a million years in a tiny planet in a sea of infinite time and space. But yeah some dude created us specifically and we look like him!
I just realized I'm on the God account. ๐๐ (God wants people to doubt him so he can send them to hell without feeling bad about it?!?!)