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Why is belief in a higher power required?
June 19, 2013 at 3:01 pm
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Considering that people are perfectly capable of living happy, moral lives without a belief in a higher power, I would like to hear logical answers from theists as to precisely why belief in a higher power is required in this world. It is a question I have never seen adequately answered.
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RE: Why is belief in a higher power required?
June 19, 2013 at 3:10 pm
They believe that it is BECAUSE of the higher power that they can live happy, moral lives.
Life with god is completely indistinguishable from life without god in every way.
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RE: Why is belief in a higher power required?
June 19, 2013 at 3:11 pm
I think we all know possibly the most common and biggest factors to why people believe in a higher power.
1) They are ignorant. Not in a mean way but in the sense that everyone is ignorant of how the universe began and how life started. We do not yet have an answer, and not knowing is something religious people don't particularly like.
2) They fear death because they don't know what happens to you after you die, no one does
It will be interesting to see the responses they come up with
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RE: Why is belief in a higher power required?
June 19, 2013 at 3:17 pm
because it is a bronze age system and people could only attribute bronce age concepts of rulership to their religious figures.
if most religions would have sprung into existance during the last 40 years, god would have been an elected official.
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RE: Why is belief in a higher power required?
June 19, 2013 at 3:48 pm
I know for Christians it's a prerequisite for having your sins washed away.
I'd be curious to hear the Islamic reasoning, though.
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RE: Why is belief in a higher power required?
June 19, 2013 at 3:52 pm
Because if there's a creator then there must be some kind of purpose. If there's no creator then everything that's going on, all the hardships of life, at end of the day is all just a bunch of stuff that happened for no reason. That's frightening, and belief in a creator gives (false) comfort.
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RE: Why is belief in a higher power required?
June 19, 2013 at 3:58 pm
I would like to know why so many mental health professionals think I need to believe in a higher power in order to be mentally well.
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RE: Why is belief in a higher power required?
June 19, 2013 at 4:36 pm
(June 19, 2013 at 3:01 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Considering that people are perfectly capable of living happy, moral lives without a belief in a higher power
That's just it. Christians often think that we atheists don't live happy, moral lives without belief in a higher power. That's why so many of them claim that we're all unhappy and if we do happen to have morals, they came from God.
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