I am not a atheist or anogtic but I have been thinking why do people not believe in God? Might the reason be why some people don't believe in God is mainly because of all the inconsistencies and falsehoods perceived in religious scriptures. Some religious leaders have used their dogma to oppress, victimize and terrorize those who refuse to subscribe to their particular brand of religion. Jesus and John the Baptist were classic victims of tyrannical oppression from religious charlatans. Religion seems to have had more to do with human’s selfishness and greed for money than with righteousness, piety, compassion and spirituality.


Why believe in God if you are atheist, non-atheist, or agnostic when evil, vicious, and greedy individuals enjoy success and prosperity from the exploitation of the meek and weak( i.e., child molestation) in the world. Religious dogma have said God promise in scripture that the meek should inherit the earth, fooling individuals with the false promises of a paradise called Heaven, which can only be accessed after death.



Why believe in God when religious dogma has continued to beguile its fowlers, postulating through scriptures that God’s existence has been daily been proven because God is the creator of all that exist in the universe because everything that exists in the universe is because God allow it to exist. Religious followers should object the idea that the universe might be eternal; therefore, eliminating the cause and effect argument of God’s existence. How can the universe be eternal when scientifically scientist has proven the Big Bang Theory, which concluded that the universe begin with a bang?

However, the belief in God does have a purpose in the world: population control. A person's denial of God allows them to do whatever they want to another person, only fearing the criminal justice system; instead, of his or her rejection from the Heavenly Father into Heaven.

 

before we ask do we have faith in a god, you must ask what is god?

is god the first cause? the label which we use to identify the cause of the big bang? could god be a particle that can be proven through science to exist?

the reason i ask this question is because as we humans progress our understanding of the universe around us through the use of our technology, we being to see deeper into the fabric of reality and what is possible. it is conceivable that we may one day be able to create our own race of creatures, thus gracing us with the power of 'god'. the best example is our race to creating the world's first artificial intelligence. in essence humans will have created a child of the mind, whose view would be strictly logical. an AI would be man creating a tool sole based to recreate the mind in the most efficient form possible.

in the end people need faith, they need to believe that in life there are greater mysteries, and power beyond them, it instils the belief that wonderment is possible and that the world will constantly surprise you.

i remember a great quote from a Denzel Washington movie "Flight" where he is a drug addicted, alcoholic pilot who manages to land a plane from the worst possible case scenario. any ways, the quote happens when he runs into a cancer patient looking for a smoke in the hospital. the cancer patient says that "when people start accepting that all the random shit that happens to them in life is god they can realize that god is everywhere"

i don't believe what the bible or any religious book says god is, i believe we have yet to understand much about the universe and rather put my faith into mankind.

 

A Christian America? What History Shows

The “normal” religious life many Americans seem to remember is the life of the 1950s, when church-building and church-attending boomed – not coincidentally, along with the Baby Boom. Those years were the peak of church membership and attendance in American history – much higher than in Early America – but not that much higher than today.

We err if we project that 1950s culture back to the early days of America...

Several years ago, Roger Finke and Rod Stark gathered together fragmentary evidence on church membership and attendance from 1776 on and estimated what they called “religious adherence.” Their summary of the results appeared in the book The Churching of America as the following chart:

The consensus among historians of religion is that the trend was generally toward increasing religious involvement into the 20th century.
http://madeinamericathebook.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/a-christian-america-what-history-shows/

 

People don't believe in God because there is no logical reason to do so. Invoking God, in any circumstance whatsoever, solves no mysteries and merely adds a new one.

 

The "God" one believes in needs defined. There are over 175 different religions with each having their own denominations, rendering countless of altering faiths.

If you believe that there are less people today that have faith in an all powerful being which visited this planet to set course a civilized existence for each of us, I would say your misled by day to day occurrences. Statisitically, people in general believe in a divine being, regardless of adhering to set laws claimed to be given to us by that divine being.

Others adhere to that described phylosophy however, they view that God as an extra-terrestrial, having its own plausability.

Others believe God is in is all, giving us our internal awareness of right and wrong, known as a conscience. These people take the King James version of the Bible at its word, claiming that the Church is the people, not a building.

Therein lies one's faith, where they accept a creator, regardless of its title, and adhere to the laws for either fear of punishment or praise in the afterlife.

So, there are more than there used to be that believe in a God, simply because there are more people in the world. The question you should ask is, why don't people listen to their conscience and go with what is deemed right by them. Or, why do they not fear punishment in afterlife or rewards.

Like saving money, people want rewarded now, not years from now. People see the bird in their hand and the two in the bush is a lottery at best. So, tossing any faith out the window, they seek to gain whatever tangible item now rather than hope a religious scholar is correct in their teachings.

 

I find it hard not to believe in God. It makes no sense for the universe to have been some accident or that it just appeared.

 

i have a few small questions for those that do believe in god
in the book of genesis new testament
define the relationship between isaac and rebekka
then same book the marriages of jacob and rachel and leah and the hand maidens
jacob was wed to 4 wives at 1 time?
and bought the dausgters of a family member with labor?

thats just 1 chapter how fucked up is your god?

 

Another lame anti-religion thread.

It's really odd that so many think that all religious beliefs are the same as those they previously held. Not all believe in absolute creation, not all believe in a all-knowing supreme being, not all cater to a deity that is represented by a carved image.

Get over yourself. Go afield to view the world as a scientist, wanting to learn the differences in cultures and societies that populate it. Not as an antagonist wanting to prove that others are somehow the lesser of you.

 

ten i asked questions based on the texts within the new testament im not saying its right or wrong for all just not for me
but if marriage is between 1 woman and 1 man how do they explain jacob?

i just want to give a single point of clarity

 

people dont belive in GOD cause they seen bad people get big ,rich and strong so call GOD did not do any thing to them

 

GOD Exists!

It doesn't matter if you believe, or not!
God exists - period!

The problem is the great variety of religions!
(See what just happened in Egypt between Muslims and Christians!)

Now, whatever texts someone reads, was written by humans, not by God!

In my religion (at least), going to church is an option - the priest won't kick your ass if you don't go!

NOTE: Believing in God, from my point of view, does not impose to you to believe in His servants! (Priests, monks, whatever)...

ONE MORE THING: Communism imposed to officially NOT believe in God!
So what?!?
My ancestors were all baptized, and so was I!
Even though everybody was pretending that it was done in secrecy...

 

Believing in God doesn't help, you've just doubled the size of the problem. If you won't accept that things can exist without a cause, then what caused God?

 

Do not expect clarity in something as old and archaic as the old testament. A collection of stories told orally for millinia before being captured by the hand writing of those old tales.

The stories are what they are, tools for teaching obedience to a God who is being described by frail, imperfect humans.

 

actualy the book of genesis is new testament and the version is a king james bible from about 1954
perhaps some need to reread it

 

Wrong.

Starting with you.

 

but being in that the book is the holliest of the holy texts should it be cast aside as revised by a kingdom that arose from the earth beyond the scripting of the texts?
so then should be all laws such written henceforth

if one can rewrite the history of a church so easily so can one also falsify that history to do ones own bidding

 

Was this supposed to make sense?

Jacob wasn't living under the law. The law came with Moses, a good deal later. If you'd ever bothered to read the Bible you wouldn't make such laughable errors.

 

im not a fucking christian never have been never will be
but since jacob was blessed by god he was living under gods laws
and in that god had come unto him and spoke the words that he would be blessed as would his seed they were blessed by god

people have cast aside the old testament as incorrect in favor of a rewritten new testament
what defines the old and new?
can i get a new heritage????

history is history and all must be accounted for in the end
and christs chickens are coming home to roost

 

How wrong could you be?

 

Why people do not believe in a God anymore?

- kevin freeney,


In my comment #3 I pointed out that a higher percentage of Americans have religious affiliations now than during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

By 1959 religious affiliation in the U.S. was about 65 percent. Now it is down to 50 percent, but it is still higher than during the past the religious right idealizes.

XNXX is a pornographic website, so the blasphemous comments some post here should not be mistaken for the American consensus.