Yeah. Even if it intellectually makes no sense, I still do. I never discuss it and would never attempt to convert someone or anything, I really have better things to do. But despite the fact it isn't logical I still always do.
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I used to as my parent taught me that but now as a grown up , I dont believe in god. I mean I am not sure if god exists so I dont believe in god. Just like ghosts, aliens etc.
Yup I sure do
I shouldn't have to. Any God worthy of the title would provide clear and irrefutable proof of its own existence.
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Yes. I see evidence of an intelligent designer in things like DNA and the functions of cells. I find it difficult to believe everything evolved by accident through a series of quadrillions of beneficent mutations.
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No, the concept never really made any sense to me. The idea of god doesn't actually answer any questions about the world, and I find it fundamentally offensive. The idea that our world is created by some higher power that just fucks with humanity for its own amusement and that gets to judge us effectively denigrates humans to sims in some sick and perverted game.
The idea of god introduces lots of questions as well, such as where does god itself come from. Given that we can explain the whole universe through natural phenomena, seems weird to introduce something there's no evidence for that needs whole lot of explaining itself.
The explanation for tendency towards religion due to a quirk of natural selection makes the most sense to me. Basically, the theory is that there is selection pressure to err on the side of seeing agency where there is none. If the grass rustles then maybe there's a tiger hiding there or maybe it's just the wind. If you think it's a tiger and run away then you survive, but if you think it's the wind and it is a tiger than you die. Thus the trait of erring on the side of agency was selected for over many generations, and hence why people tend to look for agency behind our world and the universe itself.
Furthermore, the notion is laughably anthropocentric. we now know there's a vast universe out there with countless billions of galaxies each having countless billions of stars. We are like a dust mote in vast ocean, and to think that we are somehow special and that there is some deity that cares about what we do individually seems absurd.
Religion made sense when humans didn't understand how natural phenomena occur, and it provided useful traditions that helped groups of humans survive. The rule against eating pork in Islam is a great example of this. People noticed that those who eat pork are more likely to get sick. They had no idea what bacteria and parasites were, but they saw a pattern and attributed it to some higher power not wanting people to eat pork. This improved people's chances of staying healthy. The mindset of memorizing a bunch of rules and following them blindly helped keep society going.
Today, we understand how natural phenomena work, and more importantly we have a tool for expanding this knowledge in an effective way that lets us discover and understand phenomena that we currently don't have good understanding of. This tool is science and it works reliably and repeatably. The mindset of following blind rules that religion promotes has long stopped being beneficial to society and has now become a hindrance.
No, all religion is dumb.
Yes. (Jewish)
If there is a cake there must be a baker
Except for the divine cake. That one just always existed because I say so.
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Yes, I believe in the Christian God.
Yeah, I used to be an atheist but I converted to Catholicism after a bad trip on shrooms
Can you tell me why? I have a friend who was atheist and one day converted simply so,to ultracatholicicm (he's not pushy about it, just very... definite), and I suspect that he had a sort of bad trip. I'm pretty sure he's hurting himself and his wife in the long term in the process, and he won't tell anyone what caused his sudden change.
It’s a strange story really. I was tripping balls and I started to think back on all the bad things I had done in my life up to that point. I felt this intense guilt and sense of despair and idk why but I tried praying for the first time since I was a little kid. I felt this instance relief and a warm fuzzy feeling inside. I tried praying a few times after that while sober and had the same feeling that I consider to come from a spiritual experience.
After that I started reading the Bible but I just considered myself a generic Christian. I didn’t go to any church or really have an idea of what the different denominations believed. I ended up reading more into the history of Christianity and from there came to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a continuation of the church established by Jesus (not trying to pick a fight with any Protestants, I’m just explaining my personal spiritual journey).
As for your friend, maybe it’s a passing phase. I was super zealous when I first converted but chilled out over time. I have to ask, does he go to Latin mass? There’s this weird subset of Catholics who attend these masses that are kind of crazy. Like to the point they don’t believe there’s been a legitimate pope since the 60s or earlier
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Yes, I believe I'm part of God, same as all it exists, we are God, we are energy, we are 1.
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I don't see any evidence for evolution creating new species. None
Consciousness fits most definitions of supernatural and it's a profoundly human mistake to try to externalize it.
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OP, have you seen a sunset?