Which is better, believing in a god or not?

Yeah. and all these people bite onto my post--__--
my very answer is preposterous. duhh?!

you should think in what you want in life for you, depending in what you want, you should create your own belief even
if what you wish is to fap your hole life or win the novel price build your beliefs to support yours self and your goals in life .
personally I recommend to drop all that shit and believe on your self but that's your decision. be happy day by day every day all your life
sorry for my spelling but i speak Spanish as a first language

Arguing that the theory of evolution disproves the existence of a god is flat out wrong. It may tear down the image of the Judeo-Christian God that had been accepted for centuries, but it does not disprove the possible existence of a god.

A god, for a lack of better word, is an excuse. Everything that we cannot attribute to our scientific knowledge can and will always be attributed to something else. Ancient peoples did it because they didn't have complete knowledge of how the world worked. We may have come quite a ways from that point in time, but don't be foolish and assume science will explain everything; our scientific theories are called theories because there's still plenty of room for contrary argument.

Until we reach the point where we have that complete knowledge of how the universe works and how it was made, we will never know for certain if there exists or doesn't exist a god.

The choice to believe, then, is completely based on faith. Faith in the existence of a god, or faith in our science to disprove such an existence once we reach (if we ever reach) that point. That's what it comes down to.

I was raised Catholic but mother didn't really force it on me or anything. My father was rather spiritual and believed in all of the gods that exist in every religion. So that made me pretty open minded in everything. I do not though, follow a religion I just believe in a higher being.
It's okay to believe in something but you don't have to. If having faith in something makes you happy, keep going.

YEY, ATHEIST VS CHRISTIANS THREAD!!!111!!!

Read this very carefully
Evolution does not necessarily mean 'Monkeys to Humans'

Also, hear me out with the red truth
Science is slowly stripping everything the illusions that humans made
By illusions, you know what I mean.

Science never tries to disprove God because God is a concept that science doesn't accept. Every scientific theory is based on more then delusional talk and what's more important, they can all be disproved. Whether someone's imaginary friend that can't be seen or noticed is real or not isn't even an discussion. It's something that should be frowned or laughed at. But science is freedom and people can believe what they want as long as they don't hurt anyone. But then you have stuff like the bible and the quran and their teachings have a long record of hurting people and still are hurting people but it's quite easy to disprove them.

I just find it mindblowing. I can accept that people want to believe in god, I could even accept that there is one, But I can not accept that people believe in old books full of bullshit.

I believe in God. I believe there is a Creator and Supreme God but my beliefs are solely mine and I totally shun religion. I actually believe in God but Christianity is just full of too many shit that I can't follow it. I was born Buddhist but Buddhism was more or less rational thinking so I didn't find following it's teaching was anything new since I already knew them before anyone told me about them.Islam? Er.... No thanks. Islam is too strict for me and I think some of their rules make no sense. Like praying 5 times a day. Showing your faith is good but that's a bit too much.

Not reading all 30 pages.


But people who believe in god tend to live longer. Has to do with being part of a community, generally happier, when they are sick they arn't as scared because they have god with them, etc.

Nothing wrong with a little faith

Ughh im not in the mood digging through research to find you some proof, but it's like how people who smile more live longer or who are happy.

So you're saying atheists aren't happy.

I Disagree (well not on the whole living part, still too young to determine that) but I am quite happy knowing MLP much more then when I was sorta believing in god (was more angry if anything).

just google "people who believe in god live longer" and there are DOZENS of things that come up, so clearly it's just not me spouting random shit


just one of many proofs.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8044586/Having-faith-helps-patients-live-longer-study-suggests.html

Strange, your link has no link to the study that I can see. sorry, biut it's not evidence until the data's there.

Here, I can do that too. Here's 'just one of many proofs' that atheists are actually happier than believers.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/08/07/smiley-face-atheists-survey-finds-non-believers-to-be-upbeat/

you guys..you're breaking my balls. Just google what i said and look for sources, that was just one i copy/pasta'd


I'm atheist and really don't care either way. Was just stating my 2 cents

Well we don't care bout that either, just my 2 cent.

Science may not accept God, with a capital G, but I'm arguing that science does not disprove the existence of a god.

What I'm describing when I say "a god" is a natural force that creates, but itself was not created. The force that gave birth to this universe, that kicked off everything with a bang. That's what I'm arguing the existence of.

People believe in old books full of bullshit because often times life doesn't give them anything else to believe in.

Actually, due to the nature of time, it becomes easy to presume the universe has always existed, however, in different states.

If something is proven, then you don't have to believe in it anymore. Because then you know it. Because most people don't know if a God exists or not, they have to either believe it or not. That is the concept of faith.

(Edit: "Most people" because I have no proof that some people maybe do KNOW that God exists, or doesn't.)

But let's stretch the concept a tiny bit based on the assumption that we have to believe things we don't really know about:
How many of you really know anything about Physics, Quantum Physics, Biology, Evolution, Medicine, etc. ...
Meaning, considering that there are according to Stephen Hawking only three people in the world who really understood the relativity theory, meaning who really KNOW that it is correct, the rest of us, who is not that well informed about Physics and don't know how to do the math to check ourselves if it is correct: We, who don't know for sure, we have to believe that others do.

When we go to a doctor, we have to believe that he/she knows what he/she is doing, although we can't be sure unless we are doctors ourselves (and even then our knowledge could be false or outdated or not specialized enough or too specialized).

Just because someone is an Atheist, doesn't mean that this person has no faith in anything. And BTW:


As for the concept of religion, Christopher Hitchens has in my opinion a good and valid point on how organized religion is the main source of hatred in the world:


The concept of God as it is preached by Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) is the concept of an almighty being, that sees everything, hears everything, knows everything and can do everything (everything like in "not imaginably huge fuckload of stuff"). On top of that the very same religions preach that God is pure good and of course pure love and compassion.

So a critical thinking theist ... ok, now I have to make a break to laugh my ass off ... ok, back to the topic: so a critical thinking theist might end up with the problem that you either rethink the concept of almighty and assume that
A) God might not be almighty and therefore can't undo all the wrong and evil in the world,
B) our concept of right and wrong is incorrect (what would explain the mysterious ways, right?),
C) God is a sadistic bastard or
D) God simply doesn't give a shit.

Nice book on that topic is btw The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. I am warmly recommending it to everyone, who is critically overthinking his/her faith.

And just for the sake of it a few cutesy quotes at the end: