h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I am sorry that I have not replied but I have been not on this site for a very long time. I have been busy and been through alot during these past few months. My Auntie has recently died of Kydney Cancer and it was her Funeral last Thursday just gone. She had been ill some time. She was 92. She lost her husband of Liver Cancer last year. He died 4 days before his 93rd Birthday.

The reason why I believe in God is just look at the things around you, like the Flowers, Birds, Animals, the stars etc.

All of which have perfectly good explanations that have no need of god.

Personally I believe in god because I can't be bothered to think through the logical implications of such a belief

Noggin

'The reason why I believe in God is just look at the things around you, like the Flowers, Birds, Animals, the stars etc.'



Odd. As I've stated at more length elsewhere, those are exactly the reasons I *don't* believe in God.

Ah! I found it:


When I consider the beautiful world around me, the infinite depths of the starry night sky, the wondrous intricacy of the web of living things, the tender loveliness of a wild sunflower blooming beside a country road, a rainbow, a sunset, a waterfall, a cottonwood tree standing alone in a field of wheat -- When I consider all this subtlety and magnificence I can't imagine how anyone could possibly accept the simplistic, insipid, small-minded and absolutely inadequate explanations offered for it all by the creation stories and cosmologies of the religions people have made.

I can't help but feel sadness and sympathy for such people: what horrible, tragic hurts must have been done to them earlier in life to make them turn away from reality with such hatred? How terrible that these people have suffered such injury that they must blind themselves to so much of the unfathomable beauty of the world in order to embrace the hopeless protection of the tremulous fog that religion offers.

az

Hello, we're back are we? I'd forgotten I started this thread. So come on then, is there a God? Quickly please, and I want yes or no answers only, let's see if we can sort this one out and move on to some trickier questions.

(At the risk of being accused of spamming, I'll repeat myself)



No.

Good, excellent. Anyone else?

No.

No.

(Actually, there have been, and are, countless imagined gods, but never evidence of one in actuality)

Anyone for yes? The nos have it so far.

Yes, without a doubt.

mich2ael

In fact, check out a totally awesome website: www.godsnotdead.com . You'll find stories there from people who've found out that God is real.

mich2ael

Excellent, now we have something like a contest. Any more for yes? We're getting close to a definitive answer here, people.

Maybe a 'yes' could provide a 'why'. I did in post 764.

Sure thing:

When I consider the beautiful world around me, the infinite depths of the starry night sky, the wondrous intricacy of the web of living things, the tender loveliness of a wild sunflower blooming beside a country road, a rainbow, a sunset, a waterfall, a cottonwood tree standing alone in a field of wheat -- When I consider all this subtlety and magnificence I can't imagine how anyone could possibly doubt the existence of a Creator.

Actually I can...some people can get so hurt by life experiences that they fail to appreciate beautiful things.

mikey2

Looks like a bit of an impasse, doesn't it?

I did look up Godisnotdead and sorry but personal testimony doesn't amount to any sort of proof.

I chose 3 videos at random and all of them were little more than people with troubled lives re-discovering their faith and attributing to some personal epiphany the cure to whatever ailed them at.

Who knew that lack of faith leads inexorably to drink, drugs and lives of depravity?

I feel a distinct lack of depravity in my life right now.

I wonder where it all went so wrong?

Try the "raised from the dead" story.

mikey2

benjaminpmoore - have you been watching 'that mitchell and webb look' by any chance?