RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
February 23, 2016 at 2:46 am
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2016 at 2:48 am by robvalue.)
My position is that I don't know what it is. The question is different depending on who is asking me, and what the word means to them.
If it's an intelligent being in another reality that created this reality, deliberately or otherwise, then I have no opinion at all. I can't possibly know, and have no beliefs either way.
If it's also got a load of ridiculous superlative powers which are meant to apply to its own reality and not just its influence over ours, then I'm as confident as I can possibly be that such things are imaginary. I don't claim to know for sure. But, since no two people who describe the "same God" can agree on what it actually is, and almost no one has an internally consistent or meaningful definition, actually matching something in reality to these weird descriptions would be rather subjective at best.
Imagine "God" is revealed, and Christians, Muslims, Hindus and everyone else pointing at the same thing and saying, "That's what I meant!" when actually it's nothing like any of them described.
If it's an intelligent being in another reality that created this reality, deliberately or otherwise, then I have no opinion at all. I can't possibly know, and have no beliefs either way.
If it's also got a load of ridiculous superlative powers which are meant to apply to its own reality and not just its influence over ours, then I'm as confident as I can possibly be that such things are imaginary. I don't claim to know for sure. But, since no two people who describe the "same God" can agree on what it actually is, and almost no one has an internally consistent or meaningful definition, actually matching something in reality to these weird descriptions would be rather subjective at best.
Imagine "God" is revealed, and Christians, Muslims, Hindus and everyone else pointing at the same thing and saying, "That's what I meant!" when actually it's nothing like any of them described.
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