RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
April 29, 2015 at 7:32 am
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2015 at 7:41 am by Little Rik.)
(April 27, 2015 at 6:34 pm)Jericho Wrote: There was a long period in my life where I did, in fact, believe in God.
I feel as though I am one of the lucky ones that didn't have parents that thrust religion onto me as a child. Yes, we went to church every now and again, and I went to Bible camp more than once throughout my youth. However, my parents were never the ones to make me pray or make me sing or anything like that. As I grew older, they respected my decision to not attend church. Perhaps they knew that I was beginning to doubt religion, or they may have thought that I was just too lazy to go (which is more likely).
Now that I am an independent young adult and have had more time to question and ponder what it is that I believe, I have concluded that I do not believe that god (or gods) exist. I am not one of those that will try and deconvert my peers, or get angry when they forsake me for my lack of belief. I have found that at the end of the day, people are always going to be intolerant of what and who I am. If that is the case, then they do not deserve to call themselves my friends or to even take up my time with useless conversation. But I digress.
So to answer this question simply...no, I do not believe in god.
Agree.
People shouldn't be intolerant just because they do not agree with your belief.
To me is all a question of be ready to learn things.
If people are not ready they probably will be in the future.
It is all up to them.
If eventually they miss the train to happiness nothing is really lost.
It is just a delay in finding happiness.
(April 29, 2015 at 7:24 am)Alex K Wrote:(April 29, 2015 at 7:19 am)Riketto Wrote: The reason why i say that can not be proven is because i am dealing with people that only believe in a physical-mental way.
God is not something physical-mental but something much more subtle and great that goes well behind the world of physicality
therefore it would be a waste of time to push my belief considering that you wouldn't understand.
Ok, so can we then agree that your God doesn't exist in the usual sense of the word?
Your sense of the word is different from mine.
Gold does not exist until you are interested in finding it.
It doesn't show to you were it is.
It is up to you to put the effort to find it.
God work in the same way.
There is no point in telling you that God exist if you are not
interested in him.
It is only when there is some interest in God that the sense of the word
take a different meaning.