Question:
Why do people still believe in god?
2011-07-17 22:23:30 UTC
Don't try and answer this and say, "you can't prove he's not real!". Scientifically speaking, things are not real unless proven to be so. If I told you I had imaginary friends who talked to me, I'd be receiving mental help. Please do not give me some story about how the universe is so "complex" that god must have created it. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean you should point to god. Why do you believe in god when there are thousands of different religions believing they worship the "real" god. Why do you believe in god? Before you answer this, ask yourself why you're not Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, or another religion that you are not a part of.
Eighteen answers:
Nous
2011-07-17 23:01:08 UTC
Acceptance of a supernatural claim tends to promote cooperative social relationships. This communication demonstrates a willingness to accept, without skepticism, the influence of the speaker in a way similar to a child's acceptance of the influence of a parent. By encouraging this kind of behavior where the most intense social relationships occur it facilitates the lack of skepticism and deters more open minded thinking.



They are christian, Muslim or the other religions depending where they were born simply because they were indoctrinated by their parents as very young children. They will go on to indoctrinate their own children and those will go on to indoctrinate their grandchildren!



Atheists have the intellect to see through the conditioning and escape into the real world!



Agnostics have the intellect to see through the conditioning but lack the courage to throw of the conditioning entirely.



Sadly Christians, muslims and others are still held firmly prisoner by the self perpetuating brainwashing!
?
2011-07-17 22:39:05 UTC
If you did some research at all you would know that all religions are the SAME with small differences here and there...my favorite story comes from the egyptian story of Isis and Osiris which is basically that Osiris was tricked into his death and then his love Isis set out on a mission to find him and was able to find 13 of the 14 pieces he had been split into with the missing piece being his phallus (which was never located) She managed to put all the pieces together and bring him back to life and Isis gave birth to a son NOT Osiris' son as this was IMPOSSIBLE. Sound a bit familiar to the Catholic/ Christian Stories? Next!

Buddha was born of the virgin Maya after the Holy Ghost descended upon her, In Tibet, Indra was born of a virgin. He ascended into heaven after his death, In Persia, the god Mithra was born of a virgin on DEC-25, In India, the birth of Krishna was said to have been born to his mother Devaki while she was still a virgin. I know you wanted to know about why I believe and worship God but I thought I'd just give you an insight as to the greatest similarity all religions have in common and I am a catholic but knowing all of this has only expanded and strengthened my faith :)
Roberta B
2015-06-26 14:41:09 UTC
A Creator, God, is the most logical answer to how existence came about.



To believe that something came from nothing is completely against every human experience. But atheists accept it because it allows them to not be accountable to the only One who could create the universe.



No one has proven that God is imaginary, because they can't. People can state it, but that doesn't make it true.



God reveals himself in many ways, and only those who search for him honestly find him.



Faith in God is not a possession of all people, but it can lead to a deep-seated personal happiness.



People believe in God because God makes himself known through his works. Also, because just like a house is constructed by someone, the one who constructed all things is God. Thirdly, a real, ultimate Creator, by definition, has to be uncreated, so there must be only one.



The God of the Bible recommends himself to be the Creator because of consistent fulfillment of prophecy. Secondly, every few months a discovery in science or archeology is made that corroborates some aspect of the Bible's account. Third, the morality of the Bible's commands about how to live our lives works for everyone - respect for life, respect for property, respect for reproductive powers, respect for truth, and most of all, to put God's service in the center of our lives.



Just because a Creator of the universe cannot be seen does not deny his existence, because we don't see gravity, or the wind, or electricity, but we know that they exist, because we see their effects. Similarly, when we see lives radically changing for the better because of a new found faith in a Creator, we are seeing the effects of God in their lives. I have seen this many, many times, and no atheist can deny that this happens.



The truth is that there is no proof that there is no intelligent Creator - and the tremendous complexity and interconnectedness of our existence strongly indicate that one does. Atheists generally do not want to talk about beginnings or of finding final answers to important questions, which is the whole point of it all. Who am I? What am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Is this life all there is? We could give our opinion about these questions, but opinions are not answers.



It is true that most great scientists in history believed that the earth was created.



To insist that scientific methodology was conceived only in the last 300 years is unreasonable, especially in view of our knowledge of ancient cultures and their accomplishments - they were not all ignorant deluded illiterate goat herders.



Isaac Newton demonstrated that with every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. It is logical to conclude that the tremendous complexity of matter, energy, forces and the laws that govern them must have a cause of equal complexity.



It is also true that the modern scientist accepts that at some point in the distant past, the universe began to exist. The red shift of the stars confirms this.



This fact brings Kalam's Cosmological Argument into play. (Google it)



It is also true that an alternate cause of the universe is intelligent rather than a mindless force.



The fine tuning mathematical constants that are evident throughout the universe reveal a common intelligent mind producing it all.



The DNA (or RNA) molecule on earth is found to be amazingly complex, and exists in even the tiniest kinds of living things.

The question then is, is the ultimate source of that existence someTHING or someONE -- that is, a mindless random source, or an intelligent one?



Because information has never resulted from randomness, the intelligent answer is superior.



Therefore, there exists an intelligent, uncreated Creator.
Betty Jean
2011-07-17 22:37:26 UTC
I believe in God because he is real and I've experience the power of his word when I was a child. I used to be like you I'd question if he is real right eve after being born again and he led me to research the bible myself. I found out so much scientific evidence that he really did exist and that the bible is like a history book which happened through time. I no longer question him about anything and am glad I did the research on my own. I am not a part of any other religion because Satan uses them to lead the blind into their own pit. I believe in my God because without him there is no life, and no hope.
?
2011-07-17 22:29:21 UTC
People just need something to believe in. Adults will tell little children the tooth fairy and Santa doesn't exist, but then they believe in God. Religion should be more personal but organized religion just corrupts. What true religion would actively advocate war (especially based on another religion which has been responsible for more deaths than any other reason) and hating other people for being gay?
2011-07-17 23:05:09 UTC
Science proves that a bumble bee can fly, heck so does commonsense, but science has no idea how a bumble can fly. It's a an unsolved mystery. way to go science....
Polytheist
2011-07-17 22:33:26 UTC
It is difficult to undo years of religious indoctrination.

It also because many are weak-minded and need a skydaddy to help and protect them.

it is amazing that many do not see how illogical the concept of god is let alone the flaws in god.
2011-07-17 22:26:27 UTC
Because some people will always be weak minded and need a nonexistent scapegoat to blame things on.
?
2011-07-17 22:25:52 UTC
Obviously people just need to go on a few more generations before they evolve past such silly superstitions.
Trombone
2011-07-17 22:46:36 UTC
Because there is God.
Minetto
2011-07-17 22:43:03 UTC
When you stand before him you will know till then it does not matter.
2011-07-17 22:26:36 UTC
There's something wrong with the temporal lobes in religious peoples brains! Their temporal lobes are under-evolved and faulty! I'm Serious!!-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YPOTaUyvA0

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104291534

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N_2ULj_LL0
Lomi Lomi
2011-07-17 22:30:03 UTC
Because if we care to listen to the voice deep in our heart, we would be compelled to find Him.



CHAPTER ONE

MAN'S CAPACITY FOR GOD



I. THE DESIRE FOR GOD



27 The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for:



The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God. This invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon as he comes into being. For if man exists it is because God has created him through love, and through love continues to hold him in existence. He cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that love and entrusts himself to his creator.1

28 In many ways, throughout history down to the present day, men have given expression to their quest for God in their religious beliefs and behavior: in their prayers, sacrifices, rituals, meditations, and so forth. These forms of religious expression, despite the ambiguities they often bring with them, are so universal that one may well call man a religious being:



From one ancestor [God] made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him - though indeed he is not far from each one of us. For "in him we live and move and have our being."2

29 But this "intimate and vital bond of man to God" (GS 19 ยง 1) can be forgotten, overlooked, or even explicitly rejected by man.3 Such attitudes can have different causes: revolt against evil in the world; religious ignorance or indifference; the cares and riches of this world; the scandal of bad example on the part of believers; currents of thought hostile to religion; finally, that attitude of sinful man which makes him hide from God out of fear and flee his call.4



30 "Let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice."5 Although man can forget God or reject him, He never ceases to call every man to seek him, so as to find life and happiness. But this search for God demands of man every effort of intellect, a sound will, "an upright heart", as well as the witness of others who teach him to seek God.



You are great, O Lord, and greatly to be praised: great is your power and your wisdom is without measure. And man, so small a part of your creation, wants to praise you: this man, though clothed with mortality and bearing the evidence of sin and the proof that you withstand the proud. Despite everything, man, though but a small a part of your creation, wants to praise you. You yourself encourage him to delight in your praise, for you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Annie
2011-07-17 22:27:12 UTC
Because I do..... there, I gave an answer and did not break your rules......
2011-07-17 22:27:25 UTC
Just cuz
2011-07-17 22:26:04 UTC
God has proved His existence to me.
?
2011-07-17 22:27:02 UTC
Why do atheists think that they can talk down to everyone else?
2011-07-17 22:25:00 UTC
Why do people still ask this question?


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