[Serious Debate] Does God Real?

[Xenonight2]

I haven't banned anyone in a while and this is a great place to trick some of you fvckers into losing so your cool so you break the ruels BAHAHAH

I mean seriously let's be respectful of our diverse views on this sensitive subject. No matter how dumb or ill-formed people's reasons are for being an atheist or christian or w/e they are still valid and should be treated with sensitivty and respek.

[nick]

i thought this said does god read.

imma say no because he's supposed to know what everyone is thinking all the time and has like perfect memory right. why would he need to read, i bet he never actually learned how because he didn't need to

[Professor Cena]

the 4th option wouldnt be an option unless god existed, since satan is gods brother, just how cain is abels brother.
satan was cast down from haven, stripped of his wings because he was pretty perverted according to god, but in reality it was just god being a bvtch because he has a very real superiority complex.

lucifer was supposed to be the god we all have come to know, but god was jealous and talked bullshit about him to dad so uh yeah

[Professor Cena]

To me the idea of something not having a beginning or end just goes against everything we see around us.

I honestly think nobody will ever know for sure, and this thread would still be a viable debate in a million years.

onrpg is the beginning and the end

[Abhorsen]

i dont know, nobody knows..
im pretty sure he doesnt give a shit whether we do or do not believe in him/her/it though. he may even prefer us to not believe in him at all if you see that religion has only caused wars and hatred for eachother in the past thousands of years. if he has a conscious i'm sure he has better things to do than caring for us tiny little ants on this dot in the galaxy. like, perhaps crafting less flawed lifeforms :P

[Professor Cena]

i dont know, nobody knows..
im pretty sure he doesnt give a shit whether we do or do not believe in him/her/it though. he may even prefer us to not believe in him at all if you see that religion has only caused wars and hatred for eachother in the past thousands of years. if he has a conscious i'm sure he has better things to do than caring for us tiny little ants on this dot in the galaxy. like, perhaps crafting less flawed lifeforms :P

last i heard god actually left earth because we were all kinds of fvcked up so i dunno
we were just an experiment with free will and he didnt like the outcome so he up n left

[TuxedoSam]

No .

[Abhorsen]

last i heard god actually left earth because we were all kinds of fvcked up so i dunno
we were just an experiment with free will and he didnt like the outcome so he up n left

yeah i can see him beeing that crazy scientist that puts together all kinds of random dna/organs till hes satisfied and be like 'ok that was fun, next planet!'

[Z0MBiE]

Kind of related, I was just reading an article on Stephen Hawking's views on the existence of a God.

http://blogs.christianpost.com/confi...nst-god-23109/

Some of the comments make me cry.

Steven Hawkings is ungrateful as ever. There are kids who don't even recognize that they exist. they are mentally ill & wheelchair bound...yet they are more happy. He should thank God he is beating this disease and there's a reason for it. God is patiently waiting for him to repent.

Which got me thinking, A lot of very powerful people are Christians and Jews and w/e other book they like, if someone did disprove the existence of god how do you think they'd react? Would they let this get out and change their ways? Would they try to cover it up? I can imagine a lot of people would just be plain unwilling to believe that god didn't exist after revolving their entire life around trying to get on his good side. So would nothing change?

[Ronin]

A paradigm shift generally leads to a confrontation. The status quo normally reacts agressively and lashes out against innovators. A part of this might be, that people have in considerable numbers become dependent on it for their sustenance. More importantly people attach themself irrationaly to ideas.

The bible is proven to contain about 90% fabrication. Speak that out publicly and it's numerous believers will at best shun you and try to character assasinate you. The consequences you face go all the way to people trying to get you lynched or attempting murder.

That's how people react to any percieved active opposition. (People who are passive might just fly under the radar.)
It's irrelevant to the process, who is right. Ideas do, contrary to popular believe, not change by convincing. They either win, by extermination of the counter-idea, or by attriton, i.e. runnimg out of new converts.

Humans are acting like pack animals. The cost of switching sides will amount to loosing all social capital. It happens very rarely. People rather submit to their environment.

[TuxedoSam]

Kind of related, I was just reading an article on Stephen Hawking's views on the existence of a God.

http://blogs.christianpost.com/confi...nst-god-23109/

Some of the comments make me cry.

Christians are funny.

[Z0MBiE]

If he's so intelligent why hasn't he found a cure for his own illness. He's the poster child for what God calls a fool

yeah, fix yrself if yr so clever, stupid hawking

[hian]

I want to add a thought, as a number of peeps picked the agnostic option:

Saying you are places you in that sort of limbo that comes from the idea of proving absolutely anything, no matter how seemingly "obvious".
For example, agnosticism means that just like being unable to prove that god exists (in w/e form), a person is unable to, by the same rules of evidence, prove that an agnostic individual exists.

Even by agnostic "logic", you can discard agnosticism as nonsense.

The best way to illustrate agnosticism as a poorly thought-out concept is the following way -
Either agnosticism means you think you cannot know the answer to claim X due to practical constraints, or due to meta-physical constraints.
If it's practical, you should also label yourself agnostic on every other single thing you don't know for certain.
If it's meta-physical, then how do you qualify the difference between an answerable question and an unanswerable question? Furthermore, how do you distinguish between a question not being answerable, and simply being a bad question?

Simply put, we have no reason to assume there is such a thing as meta-physically unknowable phenomenon - and we have every reason to believe that any phenomenon that is supposed to exist, can be investigated and established as true or not.
If you can't know whether god is real or not, then that simply speaks to the increased chance that he/she/it is, in fact, not real.

[Kashis]

The best way to illustrate agnosticism as a poorly thought-out concept is the following way -
Either agnosticism means you think you cannot know the answer to claim X due to practical constraints, or due to meta-physical constraints.
If it's practical, you should also label yourself agnostic on every other single thing you don't know for certain.
If it's meta-physical, then how do you qualify the difference between an answerable question and an unanswerable question? Furthermore, how do you distinguish between a question not being answerable, and simply being a bad question?

Simply put, we have no reason to assume there is such a thing as meta-physically unknowable phenomenon - and we have every reason to believe that any phenomenon that is supposed to exist, can be investigated and established as true or not.
If you can't know whether god is real or not, then that simply speaks to the increased chance that he/she/it is, in fact, not real.

Let me ask this: is it wrong to think that god or gods may exist, but man has no clue as to how exactly? I dont believe in the bible or religions for that matter, but that doesnt mean that they are entirely wrong (even though a lot of it is). Can I outright say god does not exist if the only evidence is flawed to begin with? I dont think having the wrong information or lack thereof, is enough to say that.

[imtired]

I believe there is a God but as a human i still do not understand him 100 percent. I have a lot of questions and while i follow him in my life i still walk my own path. I don't really consider me part of any religion as i follow God my own way.

But i do believe there is life after death either it is physical or state of mind i know not.

I still am seeking answers to what life is and what is right and wrong.

My self i follow one God and one savior but im not like others who want to shove there beliefs down peoples throats. I judge no one of there faith. If you follow another beliefs its find with me as well all walk a path in life. Seeking answers to our questions.

I do believe there may be a evil figure some call Satan some call him other names. he may very well be real. I do think so but again another question we have to think about.

But i believe there is a God i just have not fully understand him yet. only thing i know is he promises me a good after life so i will follow him to be on the safe side. And plus having something to believe in helps me in my mind.

[Professor Cena]

God grew in Heather Mason's womb, due to Claudia Wolf's plotting and Valtiel's constant vigil. Claudia also torments Heather throughout the game, letting God feed off of her anger and despair, believing that a deity who is familiar with such emotions would be kinder and more empathic than one born of happiness. The birth of God ensures the death of the host mother.

At the end of the game, when Heather finally confronts Claudia, she takes a capsule of Aglaophotis, which then forces God out of her body. After Heather throws up the writhing, puny fetus, Claudia, in a fit of desperation, devours it. She is wracked with pain and a similar reddish "rash" that Heather had encountered engulfs her body, and is then pulled into a hole by Valtiel below, where Heather follows.

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Heather vomiting and killing God.
Once Heather reaches the bottom of the hole, she finds that she is in the same room as God, which has grown to gigantic size in an amazingly short period. Valtiel appears once more to shroud God's head before vanishing. Heather sees Claudia's empty robe on the floor and remarks "You can't be dead! I was gonna kill you!".

After a fight, Heather finally kills the abomination. She kicks God multiple times in the face to ensure She is dead, then drops to the floor and cries, releasing her emotions throughout her journey, lamenting Harry.

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