Do you believe in a god?

[XTC]

Grew up in a Catholic home, but I'm Agnostic. There is no way to prove of a God or not. I sometimes get blazed and think about the after life and how life became to be, and it's way too complicated for anyone to fully understand. There are many loopholes in creationism and Evoultion.

[amsterdam]

thats just cause you grew up on the south side.

j/k

[XTC]

thats just cause you grew up on the south side.

j/k

LoL.

[amsterdam]

i didnt know people here were soooooooo competitive between the north and south side.

white sox are killing people this year and taking names!think they can win it all?

[VoodooChild]

i am in a house that forces me to go to church EVERY sunday AND wednesday and they push god on me so much that i hate the church and sometime hate god. i try to tell them to stop pushing me but they dont. so until then i am not a christian. i am so sick and tired of the systematic veiws of the church anyways

[jzzinator69]

I grew up in a Christian family, and every Sunday my parents brought me to church to learn the word of god. As I grew up, the more I began to think about religion and this idea of a god, and the more it came to me, isn't this a bit silly? This almighty powerful god for some reason created this extraordinarily complex universe and then left without showing shed of proof of his existence. I have talked with many religious people and have tried to understand their reasoning as to why they believe in god, and there answer ultimately comes down to faith. Nothing more than faith; is it just me or is taking an idea completely on faith a little naïve? Doesnâ??t it make so much more sense that the universe has came to be as we perceive to be today by a process that can be explained logically? That perhaps planet earth is just one of many sites in the universe where the conditions for life are right? And on this small little planet orbiting an average star, in an average spiral galaxy, in a small corner of the universe life evolved into complex forms and sometime very recently, highly intelligent beings came to be. Overwhelmed by the beauty and complexity of the world they inhabited, they began to try and piece together the puzzle. Without science or any other method of rational analysis, early thinkers invented gods to explain what they had no other way of explaining. Through the ages wars were waged against different civilizations, in the name of god or the gods they believed in. Entire civilizations and beliefs were wiped out. Does all of this sound so ridiculous? Why canâ??t we just accept that earth isnâ??t really anything that special, and life as we know it developed on earth through chemical processes and evolved into more complex forms, and religion and other old ideas that attempt to explain how we came to be are just inventions of early civilizations and are no longer applicable? While I have completely disregarded the idea of religion for some time now, only recently has it really angered me. Like conservatives withholding the rights of gay people from marrying, just because some book says itâ??s bad. While I am straight, if I were gay I would be one pissed off individual. Even today wars are waged in the name of god. Entire countries at each others throats just because they believe in a different god or set of beliefs. I could go on but I can already see this post is getting quite long, and many people who pass by it might not be interested in reading it. So, why does the majority of the world still believe in a god or gods? Why canâ??t we release ourselves from what has been lagging our evolution as a society?

Thats EXACTLY what happened to me

The part where u said "I were gay I would be one pissed off individual," well i'm bisexual and all that homophobic bullshit really pisses the fuck out of me. I heard a bible passage one time that has the idea that love is never wrong, hurtfull, sinful etc. so whats wrong with same-sex mairage? I ask myself this question all the time, if its so wrong to be homosexual why did god make people have feelings for people of the same sex?

Now when my parents think i'm at sunday school like a good little christian, I go into the corner of the parking lot, block myself off with the dumpsters and garbage cans and smoke weed

[BalliN]

i am in a house that forces me to go to church EVERY sunday AND wednesday and they push god on me so much that i hate the church and sometime hate god. i try to tell them to stop pushing me but they dont. so until then i am not a christian. i am so sick and tired of the systematic veiws of the church anyways

for real, my parents tried to get me goin to church and i just told them how i felt straight up about how forcing someone to go to church is stupid, so i feel ur pain...kinda lol

i feel that ones relationship with god, whichever it may be, should be on a personal level..not a public one...i just dont see the appropriateness for a church in my life, so i wont go until i feel the need..if and when

[maryjanemama]

i feel that ones relationship with god, whichever it may be, should be on a personal level..not a public one...

Absolutely true. You can have a relationship with god and not involve the church or christianity. My own beliefs have developed through experiences, not through whatever the sisters or priests were yammering on about when I was in school. I think that "forcing" religious beliefs on anyone is going to cause rebellion and resentment.

For years I hated Catholicism and everything it stood for. That hatred then spread on to any form of organized religion. Then, for years I was absolutely sure there was no god whatsoever.

As an adult events happened that changed my mind....I believe in god but I don't go to church and I am not a christian. But I do know that some sort of a higher power has saved my ass twice in my life. These types of occurrences either happen to you and make and impact on your life or they don't. Whatever the case, it is strictly up to you and what you believe.

I will not even touch on my thoughts about christianity or we will be here all day. Let's just say it's not my cup of tea.

[andruejaysin]

I don't know, God who created the world for reasons I couldn't begin to understand? I guess it's at least a possibility. God as a guy with a beard who cares how often I jack off or how much weed I smoke? Not a chance. But I do think there is some purpose or direction to our lives, if you're willing to see it. If you want to call that God, I guess it's as good a name as any.

[Ousted]

Why canâ??t we just accept that earth isnâ??t really anything that special, and life as we know it developed on earth through chemical processes and evolved into more complex forms, and religion and other old ideas that attempt to explain how we came to be are just inventions of early civilizations and are no longer applicable? While I have completely disregarded the idea of religion for some time now, only recently has it really angered me. Like conservatives withholding the rights of gay people from marrying, just because some book says itâ??s bad. While I am straight, if I were gay I would be one pissed off individual. Even today wars are waged in the name of god. Entire countries at each others throats just because they believe in a different god or set of beliefs. I could go on but I can already see this post is getting quite long, and many people who pass by it might not be interested in reading it. So, why does the majority of the world still believe in a god or gods? Why canâ??t we release ourselves from what has been lagging our evolution as a society?

Because religion fuels the ego. It makes man feel important, and as nomadherbman said its the idea of being significant that turns us onto religion. Religions (all religions) teach people that they MATTER, that the choices they make MATTER, whether they live or die MATTERS...to someone, somewhere. All religions have that in common. Religion will never ever go away as long as man has an ego to feed.