Why I don't believe in god

afrawfraw

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Thats messed up man, I'd be PISSED if teachers were preachin religion at preschool to my kids... If I ever have kids lol
Most people of faith assume every one practices their religion. A simple talk with the teacher should do the trick. If it happens again, contact the district and the ACLU or the FFRF. Unless the school is privately funded, they can NOT use district money to teach religion, indirectly or directly. I had to call my child's elementary school because they were teaching religious songs in public school. I called, it stopped.
 

afrawfraw

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If the lord is timeless then there would be no time before its existance
If the Lord was timeless, he would communicate the ultimate workings of the universe, because scientific progress would not exist to him. The Bible would be written in Mathematics, and would contain the Grand Unified Theory to the Universe.
 

NetGuruINC

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I grew up believing in god. It was something that I took for granted, and never questioned. At some point during my teenage years I began questioning this position. I honestly don't recall a single event, or person that changed my mind, but it started to set my bullshit-meter off quite often.

Fast forward to today .... at the age of 37 I still maintain that there is no such thing as a god. The weird thing is, I've never really examined WHY I feel this way. Reading through this section of RIU has kind of challenged me to engage myself, and really pin down my thinking on this.

Here is why I don't believe in a god:

1) Dinosaurs. If a god is behind this all, and he made us in his likeness (I'm flattered), then why did he fuck around for millions of years with dinosaurs and the like? Did he create them, only to kill them and let them marinate under ground for millions of years so we would stumble upon them and have fuel for our cars?

2) If there *is* a creator, then who created the creator? And who created the creator of the creator? How far back does this creator family tree go?

3) Talking snakes and magic apples. The bible is filled with ridiculous claims such as these. Why would god impress people with his magic tricks back then, and give us nothing to believe in now? My take is that people had no idea what lighting, thunder, rain, etc was 2000 years ago, and a man living in the clouds was all they could come up with to answer this.

4) Religion. There are more flavors of religion than there are Ben and Jerry's ice cream. If there is a god, why are there so many different versions?

5) Science. Science has given us some answers, and will continue to fill in the holes. I don't know if we have the capacity to ever truly know where we came from, and how it all started, but science has at least connected some dots for us. Religion, not so much.

These points obviously don't touch on everything that shapes my belief (or lack there of), but they account for a good deal of why I think the way I do when it comes to god and religion.

What points can you detail that help shape the way you feel about this?
I URGE you to please go to youtube and type in "nde". There is PROOF what happens to us when we die. Go to youtube and type in "nde" which stands for Near Death Experiences and watch and listen to the hundreds of stories from people who have had heart attacks, cancer, car accidents, and listen to their stories of what happened to them. You will see proof that God and Jesus are real, Angels are real, and Hell is real. Everyone needs to check it out seriously....
 

afrawfraw

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I URGE you to please go to youtube and type in "nde". There is PROOF what happens to us when we die. Go to youtube and type in "nde" which stands for Near Death Experiences and watch and listen to the hundreds of stories from people who have had heart attacks, cancer, car accidents, and listen to their stories of what happened to them. You will see proof that God and Jesus are real, Angels are real, and Hell is real. Everyone needs to check it out seriously....
The activity in the brain has been documented during shock and death. Seeing "White" and feeling presences can be explained using science. Did you just try to prove the Judaic christian deity using NDE's? Why wouldn't this prove another God or Gods existed?
 

drive

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If the Lord was timeless, he would communicate the ultimate workings of the universe, because scientific progress would not exist to him. The Bible would be written in Mathematics, and would contain the Grand Unified Theory to the Universe.
man wrote the bible. Perhaps the lord is complete and utter logic and is so true that man can not hope to understand
 

ZedsDedBaby

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I URGE you to please go to youtube and type in "nde". There is PROOF what happens to us when we die. Go to youtube and type in "nde" which stands for Near Death Experiences and watch and listen to the hundreds of stories from people who have had heart attacks, cancer, car accidents, and listen to their stories of what happened to them. You will see proof that God and Jesus are real, Angels are real, and Hell is real. Everyone needs to check it out seriously....
so the proof of a supernatural creator of all in existence, the answer to the most controversial question does god exist, is in a youtube video?? riiight....
 

mindphuk

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Something put the Moon and Sun up in the sky ;) Death brings the best out in all of us ` If are to know it all now, how fun would knowing that your pot plants about to die ;) Somethings are meant for God and the Devil ~ Millions of years old, please, Scientists can not tell how old my leaf of my Maple tree is, let alone a fossil ~ ;)
WTF are you babbling about? Science cannot determine the age of a leaf on your tree? I can't even see your tree but I would wager that any leaf you pick is no older than 2-3 months with a pretty high degree of certainty. If I knew exactly where you live, I could pinpoint it even closer.

No one put the sun and moon in the sky, the sun was here before the earth was. Being ignorant about science is one thing, acting as if you know more than science is complete idiocy.
 

Oscar Zeta Acosta

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One thing I will add, is that although I'm not a believer of the bearded guy in a cloud image, I do believe in a lot of the stories in the bible. They might have been blown out of proportion, but a fair few of them seem to have some portion of truth to them. Plus a certain amount of romance to it...
 

drive

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One thing I will add, is that although I'm not a believer of the bearded guy in a cloud image, I do believe in a lot of the stories in the bible. They might have been blown out of proportion, but a fair few of them seem to have some portion of truth to them. Plus a certain amount of romance to it...
when I read your posts I hear benico del toro LOL
 

drive

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don't think I have met any maybe you could introduce , you know ste me up with one of your friends
 

tmt1958

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I can understand why some people don't believe in God. It's the way they taught or the environment they were exposed to. Some things may have left a bad taste or seem confusing. I will try to answer some of the questions I see because I had a time in my life where I doubted God existed. I was in my late teens back then. As I grew older and studied and researched along the way, I found that God is indeed real. I have had too many prayers answered and I have seen miracles happen. That's how I know He is real. We are genetically engineered to connect spiritually with God but He will only come into our life if we ask Him. The bible stands for : basic instruction before leaving earth. I didn't understand most of the bible until I started studying it and listening to others talk about it. It is a book full of lessons, instructions, songs, poetry and history. It is meant to teach us the path to living our best life. A religion is not the same as the the RELATIONSHIP between us and God. A wonderful book to read is "In Defense of Faith" by David Brog. It is not a religious book at all. The book talks about what the Judeo-Christian culture has brought to the world. Very interesting. Even the American atheist has beliefs that came from this culture. Did you know that there was an 11th Commandment? Yep. Jesus said, "Love one another as I have loved you". The more we aspire to God's way, the better our lives get. I would say it is supernatural how it works. When Haiti had the big earthquake, the very first decent camp with food and a way to clean up and a place to sleep was a church. They went right to work getting things in order. If we live for the glory of God, He will give us more than we dreamed of. I am not talking about religious acts, but about having a heart with love in it to where we value other human life. You know how germs cannot be seen but we know they are there? Well, God is way bigger than what we can see but He is there. God Bless you all.
 

Padawanbater2

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The idea of prayer doesn't make sense. God has a plan for you and everyone else, yet praying for something will change his mind? If there is a plan, what will prayer accomplish?
 
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