Quote Originally Posted by Polymirize
Cool. It's great that you have your set of beliefs like that. You seem a little hostile about it, but it's all good. Most people are a little hostile about defending their own beliefs.

I don't know why it is that you say god wouldn't allow different people to have different beliefs concerning him. What else would different people have other than two independent perspectives? If you and I stand in two different locations and look at the same tree, we still see it from two different perspectives. Its like the parabol of the elephant and the three blind men.

But of course, that's making a sort of geometrical argument for the possibility of god. And of course, we can see that god isn't located somewhere as conveniently as a particular tree. God is supposedly outside of space and time, which is why he evades capture by all rational arguments.

I admire your appeal to reason. But it's equally unrational to extend reason beyond its own limits. Some people are content to live in the purely rational world, but there is a much larger world outside of that one, a world that we don't understand, and potentially will never understand.
I choose what to believe by following the lines of reason as far as I can, and then taking faith that such trends continue beyond. A belief that nature manifests on all scales and infinite scales.

I try not to tie god too tightly to the dogma of his alleged followers. God is a metaphor for something far greater than we can conceive. And in that respect, I'm an unflinching atheist who can say with certainty that "god" does not exist...

I agree with you 100% about the bible...
Interesting...

With certainty..
that is a bold statement..
I don't believe in God either, but I cant say that with certainty.
no one knows..until we die.
geonagual Reviewed by geonagual on . Just a though before i begin i would like to say I dont belive in god nor have i ever. I dont care who or what you belive in as long as you dont try to convert me, and in that case i hate the person, not the religion. Im not tryin to start a fight or anything just posting my thoughts. If there was a god i dont think he would want people to know about him, nor would he let different people have different opinions of him. He would just be there and do his job, If he was truly a perfect being he would be Rating: 5