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Why do people believe God exists?
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They go to church, or mass each week. It's a family, it's a community, it's a fellowship, its feeding the homeless, and providing shelter as well.
And I have as of yet, to see one anti religious person in the news for protesting a church in person, and being questioned by the media for why they are protesting said church?
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The question then becomes why do people continue to believe in god well into adulthood...
I think it's because many people just can't cope with the absurdity of Existence and can't deal with their own mortality... Many people cannot handle the fact that there is no point to Existence, that there is no ultimate purpose... This realization can be traumatic for some people, and that is what I think "faith" is just a coping mechanism, a self-enabled delusion...
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If people were not so stupid, things like the 10 commandments wouldn’t be necessary though. People can use religion as a long term moral code or a way of living day to day life. When using the morals, values, and principles a religion teaches, you become a better person.
Whether it be words from the Bible, New Testament, The Vedas, or the Quran, the values are what are most important in the 21st century, with technological and social advances we previously did not have.
It seems that now people need religion less for god, and more for themselves.
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Santa Claus, at least, presented somewhat of a mystery for me, since I actually would find the presents under the Christmas tree. I suspected that it was my parents who put them there, but still, there was, at least, some way to spin it around! With god, it seems that people literally use dreams as evidence.
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That's not the question, that does not prove the existence of God. Just because someone "can" believe that God exists that doesn't actually prove anything, religion is entirely Faith based without any actual logical reasoning or evidence.
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The likelihood that one of these building blocks came by chance is astronomical, simular to 1 in one quattuordecillion.
If the chemicals in the experiment represent the earth’s early environment and the molecules produced represent the building blocks of life, whom or what does the scientist who performed the experiment represent?
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Humans being capable of manufacturing a few molecules found in living organisms is not definitive proof of a God. None of us really know how anything came to be or what happens when we die, God and religion in general are entirely man made concepts filled with things that defy all logic. Simply not understanding the world around us or how any of it came to be does not prove the existence of God especially when the very idea of "him" was made by man.
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That's an appeal from ignorance fallacy. Just because we don't understand the complexities of life or our world does not mean God.
There's actually a rather good video on the topic that probably addresses some points you would make like this one that can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaVIOCsJPjM
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You say ......
My reply .....That’s your subjective view , you’re claiming for one to be “truly objective “ one has to accept your opinion on the mattter and then worse still you’re claiming those who disagree with you are not honestly seeking an answer
Everything in your opinion points to an intelligent designer what is the nature of this intelligent designer and how do you know it’s nature?
Who created the intelligent designer?
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You say ....Good point dee!
My reply ......I’m glad it has helped you see clearly the errors of your thinking and you’re most welcome
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Prove it.
Go to a church, and interview the parishioners, or the minister, preacher, rabbi, or priest, and question them about your indoctrination theory?
"Mostly because they’re indoctrinated"
I've been to some churches, and didn't see any indoctrination going on?
And I also have yet to see any anti religious individual, or individuals, going to a religious building to request an interview, to see if their indoctrination theory can hold its own water, in a real world interview with those individuals who voluntarily go to church, and are doing nothing wrong?
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And how did theism take over the world? If, as atheists say, it is so unconvincing?
People believe in God because they can feel Him. God is intuitive.
Human beings have never had an intrinsic desire for a non-existent thing.
Science has shown us that it is our environment that causes a desire in us. For example, food exists, thus therefore hunger. Sex exists, therefore lust. Others exist, therefore we desire companionship. Dangers exists, so we desire safety. The elements make us desire shelter.
What makes us desire God?
Every culture on Earth since the beginning of time has developed a God narrative. We have made customs, built temples, formed rituals, written poems and songs about God. Man desires God.
Man's desire for God is a natural response to God in our environment. Just as our desire for water is the natural response to thirst.
People believe God exists because they feel the desire within themselves, and know without having to be told, that the desire could not be there unless the stimulus causing that desire also exists.
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We don't have ALL the answers today, but we have a whole lot more than we had then. I believe it was Galileo that was imprisoned for going against the religious doctrine?? The man who said: " I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use."
The Santa Claus thing … We find that tapering away because, over the years we thought about him once a year. With "God" being driven into our heads week after week, it is much harder for the concept to "taper away" (but it is, slowly). With, during the week, hearing about the "miracles" that a person survived (and ignoring that a dozen or more died), it just reinforces the god concept, but, it happens, seemingly, every week. I heard no talk of miracles when the creature walked into the church, prayed with the people there, then killed all he could. "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able"??? "Is he able, but not willing"???
The same things happen under the "other god (s)". There has been NO "visits" from ANY of them. When one does, I'll believe. 'Til then, I'll drink to Galileo.
As for the universe I will say again: If something as complex as God can exist without a creator, why can't something as complex as the universe exist without a creator? ( Likely, because we don't go to church every week and are told that it exists … because the Bible tells me so. )
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After all man's efforts have been exausted, the answer to the challenge will be clear. God will establish his Government on his timeline.
God from then on will interfere for good.
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Proving God existence
let's take the universe for example, the universe is contingent meaning it has to deepen on another independent existence which is God
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