Do you believe in God and Satan?

[maryjane 420]

yeppers..I do

[fikusroot]

"If god did not exist, it would be necessary for man to create him." -Easy Riders

[Gothen]

Well, I believe in Heaven and Hell, a God and a Satan. But, some of my views are considered, by the Christian faith, un-Christian-like.

[Inferius]

I want there to be more. I want to die physically and find out that our views aren't just a drop of intelligence in an ocean of what we have no clue about, nor ever could. I really, really, REALLY want to beleive that there is more than just a chemical reaction promoting every feeling and expirience I'll ever have. I think we all want this.
But if none of these things are possible... even in death... I thank the unknown for giving me the chance to expirience chemical/physical existence.
There's always something less. Something worse. If bacteria somehow got to choose between it's reality and a rats, it would choose the rats. If a rat somehow got to choose between itself and a human life, the choice would be obvious.
I'm just glad i'm not privy to the knoledge of the higher reality.

[Weednuts]

For what it's worth....

My logic tells me that the only reasonable choice to make here is agnosticism.

There is no way to know if there is a higher being or not. Perhaps the atheists amoung us would say that I'm giving creedence to something by even considering it that much. But I see atheists and theist as being in the same boat...at least on one thing....each of them insists he knows the truth. I say, bullshit. We don't know anything.

One thing is for sure though...None of the popular religions are right. If there is a god he is looking down at us in disgust over how we have used religion to manipulate, steal, kill, etc.

Agnostics are the only people who realize they do not or cannot know. That is the only real truth. Everything else is just guesses.

[Oneironaut]

"If god did not exist, it would be necessary for man to create him." -Easy Riders

Uhh...that was Voltaire dude. He said it way back in 1770 long before the "Easy Riders" ever existed. Please tell me you know who Voltaire is.

"Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.)

[Hamlet]

I know who Voltaire is. I'm not sure I know who 'Easy Riders' is. Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicolson? It sounds like something Jack Nicolson would say and I know he wouldn't have any problem knocking off Voltaire, but I don't remember that line in the movie.

[JaggedEdge]

No... I don't belive in god or the devil... As a kid, I loved god and feared the devil. As I got older, I began to see with my eye's all the bad shit that happens in this world and began to fear both god and the devil. Around 16 I began doing extensive researh, looking at other religions etc. and came to the conclussion that the issue is unimportant. If there is a god, and he is truly loving than he will have no problem with my not beliving in him. A true "god" cannot be so selfcentered. The botom line is this. I don't believe in god nor do I disbelieve. I am simply agnostic and have excepted the fact that some higher power is not going to save me when I fuck something up.

[orangeman]

Yes I believe in it.

[fikusroot]

I was on a plaque and denis hopper commented on it. No I did not know it was by Volitare. Yes I know who Volitare is. No, speaking Frech does not make you sound intelligent.