RE: A higher force
August 10, 2015 at 9:07 pm
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2015 at 9:08 pm by Mr.wizard.)
(August 10, 2015 at 9:01 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote:(August 10, 2015 at 8:53 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Like anything else, somebody needs to present some evidence. And it needs to be a bit more substantial than Jim Bob got hisself probed up in Spider Hollow last nite, or 'Because Jesus'.
I agree. But, I think, I can almost get where they're coming from and why some are more comfortable with considering such a possibility than a god. For some, God has a bad, religious stigma about it. So is it that this "life force"(excuse me if I'm calling it wrongly, I'm just trying to be more versatile here) is actually another name for a deistic god, or what?
Whenever I try and imagine what it is people mean by this I just think of some sort of a celestial object that is extremely powerful, or something like that.
P.S. I'm sure at least some of you here will attest to the fact that they've heard about some form of belief or another in this general area of a "higher force". If not, though, let me bring you up to date. There is a group of people out there that whenever you ask them about religion they just answer something like this: I believe there's something out there, greater than us...". Yeah, I know, confusing, right?
Atheists do not rule out the possibility of a higher power or a god, they just do not see evidence for the existence of either, so there is no reason to believe.
