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I've never been religious, and at 49 years old I still haven't found a reason to believe in God. The older I've gotten, the more I think people often mistake hope, tradition, or coincidence for proof of something supernatural.
When I look at the world, I see natural explanations for things that people once attributed to God. Science has answered countless questions that used to be mysteries, and there are still many we haven't solved yet. For me, "we don't know yet" feels like a more honest answer than saying God did it.
That said, I also understand why so many people believe. Faith can give people comfort when they're grieving, hope when life feels unfair, and a sense of purpose or community. If someone grows up surrounded by religion, it's also natural for those beliefs to become part of who they are.
I don't think believing in God automatically makes someone irrational, and I don't think being an atheist automatically makes someone smarter. We all try to make sense of life in different ways. I just haven't seen evidence that convinces me a god exists, so I choose not to believe.
I'm genuinely curious to hear from both believers and non-believers. What convinced you of your position, and has your view changed over the years?
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The Bible isn't a science book. It is not intended to present a scientific case. It is a historic account, like a set of witnesses in a courtroom presenting testimony about what they each saw in relation to an important event. You read each of their testimonies and see the same story from different vantage points. Events that happen in the New Testament that witnesses recount, are prophesied hundreds to thousands of years before those events actually take place. That's a neat trick... Not only that, the same figure in the New Testament is in the Old Testament... A time traveler... The witnesses go on to be persecuted for what they saw and said about it and standing firm in their story often were put to death over it. Most people aren't willing to go to their death for a lie which gives a good argument that they believed what they were saying in totality. The archaeology of today, confirms many of the events and locations mentioned in said testimonies, and there is carbon dating to place manuscripts back to the era. Additionally there are enemies of the religion from the period that also confirm events. So if some guy actually did get beaten, flogged, crucified, and stabbed as history confirm and he then rose from the dead and claimed to be God, he would seem to be the most convincing figure in history when it comes to being God. I've seen doctors revive patients on the edge of death, but I've never seen a doctor die himself and then revive himself after being put in a tomb for 3 days. It was convincing to the people of the time and to this day we aren't seeing people repeat it even with modern science. The Messiah seems to know something science does not know. Atheists are dumb and illogical. They don't even have the IQ to spot the repeating patterns in the Bible, nor do they actually take the effort to investigate history. They just parrot bad arguments made by retards.
But who knows... Maybe I'm bias... Maybe that guy they all talk about gave my family our name... Maybe he said we were chosen... So don't trust me... Go look at the evidence and put in the work.
Who do so many people believe in Magic Invisible Sky Fairies?
There are a lot of stupid lazy people who live in fear of everything they don't understand.
It's funny you say this. Because man proves things like earthquakes are scientifically explained, not an act of God. But science also proves the unliklihood of the creation of the universe without some intelligent design behind it.
If you're going to go strictly off the math, the odds. Then you also have to go off what the odds also state. Which is all of this being by chance is highly unlikely.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/75t8kEUTT5Ethat is like saying "Why do so many people believe in television signals without any proof from radio sets" you are using the wrong tool. you just don't know other proofs. philosophers proved god. and logic proved god. the question is which god?
We dont see air but I belive in it. there's things thats happened to me like where I say.. that had to of been God. What's wrong in believing a higher power who wants us to love each other and do the right thing?
They were taught to, and the people around them all said that God was real. Skepticism was punished, and they absorbed that lesson. It takes a very strong-willed child to disregard the testimony of the adults in their community. I was that child.
Most people are the religion their parents raise them to be. I believed in god until I was 11 or so and stopped because it made no sense to me.
Are you an atheist now?
LOL, what makes you think science is any sort of yardstick to begin with?
God is not some hypothesis to be proven or disproven.
You should have paid better attention at school.
There are deluded individuals that are sadly misguided, and brainwashed into believing all this claptrap nonsense.
you did not know the man with most intelegence posted (after recognition so they can't lie) believes in jesus. between him and you...
No, that’s you, hiding behind an anon comment.
Belief in God may be hardwired into the human psyche.
Because they are naive, gullible, and easily influenced.
God was a way to control people, putting the fear of hell in them for a long time. But sometimes people just take comfort in sacrificing control to something bigger.
It's called faith for a reason
It’s called faith. I don’t believe.
To cope with reality