Why do you believe in God ?

Out of curiosity, how did you feel when Truman put a lot of effort into wiping out two cities?

 

those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

It probably felt necessary to spare years of blood shed against Imperial Japan who wouldn't quit unless, thus saving lives lost on both sides against an enemy fighting to the death.

 

Hiroshima is vibrant today with a cool music scene, do you even know Japan? @Robert
It's not like Chernobyl or Terminator II or anything.
Matter of fact, Godzilla is the humongous peace of anti nuclear bomb propaganda out there.

 

You are correct. I have not been to Japan but thanks to Youtube I have made use of the videos taken on the super fast trains and was able to see a lot of the covered parts of Japan.

 

We know history. Else I would not have posted the Truman speech. Who then lived? I lived when FDR was president.

 

Oops, wasn't trying to throw shade. When you mentioned freedom and religious liberty, I assumed that you were an American. Long live Britian and her Queen.

 

Meaning?

 

your post made me laugh out loud, because it was so silly.

 

Huh. iirc the title of the thread is "Why do you believe in God?" not "Why do you believe in a personal god overseeing mankind or even the universe for that matter?" If by any chance anyone on this thread believes in "a personal god overseeing mankind or even the universe for that matter" please let us know; I know I don't and I don't remember ever meeting anyone belonging to that religion. The point of the Pew study is that most scientists are religious---

--and barely one out of 6 call themselves "Atheists". Let's be clear here --we ought to be able to agree that a bunch of scientists taking a vote does not suddenly cause God to exist. Then again, I don't believe their voting can make the earth warmer either.

 

LOL of course not but that is the story and the claim in the Christian believers bible and such a god would be a monster if it did exist.

It is all complete nonsense.

 

Most scientists are raised in believers cultures from infant hood and they are human and subject to the result of conditioning as any other human.

Still they are far far less likely to be believers in some personal god as portray by the any of the major world religions then the overall population and a belief in a personal god is what most people consider needed for someone to be consider religion.

 

Evidence of nothing except for the gullibility of some who choose to believe this nonsense. Especially those who claim it as truth and evidence coming from someone they don't know or his history of telling the truth in the past.

You once again fail to score on this one.

 

He may have been told that he was dead but obviously he was not.

Do you also believe in Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster? Some will tell you that they are true and real. Doesn't mean that they are.

 

You may be right. Another possibility is that scientists are smart enough to figure out what's true --but let's dump our vague possibilities and stick to facts. It's a fact that there are a lot of smart good people who've chosen to be religious and deal with reality assuming some kind of Divine Presence. For whatever reason.

You said back in post #5 something to the effect that when "logic kicked in" you chucked god. We agree because it's another fact that logic can't prove that anything outside ourselves exists. The reason I don't think I'm in some "Matrix" sequel isn't logic, it's intuition --I chose to say you exist merely because it feels right.

You follow me on this?

 

LOL and 48 percents of all scientists are not believers in any of the world religions.

 

Because they don't believe in religion doesn't mean they don't believe in God.

 

Exactly, and the wording that the Pew Foundation used was "affiliation", not " belief ", but let's get back on topic. Please share your thoughts on post 366 with the use of intuition when logic fails.

 

Must be some good stuff you're smoking.

 

Oh I will probably say oh God help me. You do realize that it’s a figure of speech. When people sneeze I also say God bless you, also a figure of speech. My father came back from a near death experience and described light and hallucinations...that’s common. When I was a kid I had ether and I saw spirals, was that God or was it the drug? Hey I know lots of people on lsd who also saw the supernatural.

 

That is a fine argument. What is your argument against the videos i presented? I presented a neurosurgeon who had once believed such things were just some hallucination but now he changed his mind. Watch his video and see how he mentions he was truly brain dead so could not have hallucinations.

 

I decided to try to stick to just providing you proof.
No .. to your question. Yes, the man was pronounced dead by his professionals. Do you think they lied?

 

no, I just find silly things humorous.

 

do you mean the law of love as in between a father and son, one that says if we killed his son he would forgive all our sins? btw, the same father that supposedly drown all his children but a boat load?

many that do not believe in a God also believe in a afterlife, know right from wrong without a book telling them so, ect... if you needed a religion to fill that void, then more power to you.... glad you found what you needed

I was raised Christian, but knew there was more to it then that, I also believe there is more to us then just this life, just do not believe in a jealous God