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| There is no God, and I am certain of this. | 26 | 37.68% | |
| I firmly believe there is no God, but there is a teeny tiny possibility I could be wrong. | 15 | 21.74% | |
| I believe there is no God, but there is a possibility I could be wrong. | 10 | 14.49% | |
| I really don't know if there is a God or not, but since I have not yet seen any evidence, I live my life as though there isn't. | 18 | 26.09% | |
| I have no idea one way or the other, and am always weighing both possibilities in my head. | 0 | 0% | |
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Where do you stand on the existence of God?
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 (December 3, 2015 at 4:56 pm)Stimbo Wrote: And that's my point. Do believers exercise the same critical thinking faculties on their own beliefs and personal experiences as everyone should do when confronted by a mystery, leap to the most fanciful explanation that seems to fit the facts, or simply be content with the mystery? As I said, what story would I have if I hadn't eliminated the mundane first? Or at all? I can only speak for myself but yes I exercise critical thinking skills to rule out all plausible natural explanations. Though it also depends on the scenario. If I was in your scenario with a strange noise, maybe I wouldn't care what it was and not bother investigating and thus leaving it to mystery, but still I wouldn't assume supernatural. Supernatural is only something that cannot be explained by natural means. If you hadn't investigated you could have contrived any sort of explanation you wanted, or none at all. It was important for you to discover the source and you found a plausible natural explanation. If you didn't go out of fear, you could have theorized any number of things from air vent expanding to aliens but it would be conjecture, nothing more.
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Education: None. Skills: None. Merits: None Religious Views: the Disc's first ligthning proof atheist (December 1, 2015 at 6:49 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(December 1, 2015 at 2:54 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote: Well then, how can you be catholic? The rcc (and other catholic churches, including anglicanism) insistence that god is omniscient means that catholics by necessity have to believe that free will is impossible. For if god knows all, ordinary humans cannot possibly have a choice in their actions. One of the many reasons why I left the rcc, because it teaches bloody idiocy like this. You cannot have two mutually exclusive concepts like god who knows everything and people who can choose their own actions in the same universe.
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December 4, 2015 at 12:39 am
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(December 3, 2015 at 6:30 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote:(December 1, 2015 at 6:49 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: The belief in free will is a fundamental Catholic teaching. Simultaneously holding contradictory beliefs is easy if you just ignore all logical consistency and keep saying, "But that's what my CHURCH says! My pastor says Gaud knows and created everything, and he said that free will is real, so both things must be true because my pastor says so!"
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42) Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com 
I have to go with neil.degrasse tyson and say that I am almost completely sure there isn't one but I have to keep my mind open to science proving something we don't know as of now. So far it has worked completely in the opposite direction but I believe the biggest problem with the religious community is their closed off mind and I won't be like them
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. ~Stephen Roberts~
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