Do you believe in God?

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If you've never seen proof than isn't there some kind of comparison to a kid believing in santa ?
Because both get passed down by parents and you become a believer long before you are able to properly pass judgement on them.
You can't blame people for not grasping blind faith in a time of science where there is an explanation for almost everything.
In my opinion religion is a relic from the past where it was extremely usefull to give people hopes and belief during harsh times.
We all want to believe everything wil be better in the future.
Don't take this as a flame, it's just my observation as a non-religious person.

Actually religion, amongst other attempts to find some order in the universe, was a genuine attempt to puzzle out how to deal with things. It organized people into communities to help each other out, to support leaders who would coordinate the efforts, and to murder and torture and punish in one way or another anybody who got in their way. Even though much more intelligent and logical systems have been devised, the organizations still exist and still do many of the things that have been traditionalized with some good effects and some quite horrible effects. And when questions are asked about why they continue in many of the ways that no longer make any sense the only answer is that they must believe in what they do with no reasons whatsoever because not doing so would make them question what they are doing and would disrupt their lives in a very upsetting way.

So, god created the human race so that they may praise him, but without having any evidence of his existence. Sounds rather silly to me.
The concept of a god creating an entire world just so that its' inhabitants could worship him is a bit perverse imho

Naw. It's not totally perverse. It's insane.

Sounds silly to me too. God must be fairly petty and vain if he wants humans like slowmutant to worship him.

Considering what psychology of God has been revealed by his Biblical actions, I guess he has to be happy with whatever worshipers he can nail down.

Rofl.

well, if I was one to create a virtual world with individual sentient programs living in it, without them being capable of seeing this reality, if technology for that would be possible, then, I would demand to be worshipped.

I believe that We are all god. So I would pose the question as "Do you believe in your self?"

I believe that self is separate from God.

I believe that God is a stupid concept created by humans to answer questions and/or something to thank for what we have. (Look back 12,000 years ago, everyone was worshipping the sun which perfectly explains the latter, though if I were to side with the people who believe judaism and christianity are just parodies of sun worship which actually has it's nice amount of evidence to it honestly you could say today people indirectly worship the sun)

People today worship their own intellects.

I'm aspie and lean heavily to the eastern religions. I believe in Advaita Vedanta which is Hindu. What others call God I call The Universe. Works for me.

Many of the attributes we tend to attribute to capitalized G God I can't go along with - like personal god and creator god. For me whatever one might construe as god is totally inseparable from everything else one might mistakenly think a "personal god" has "created". In my view there is neither beginning nor end to anything. Everything is eternally recycled and transformed.

To sum up I neither believe nor disbelieve in God: I believe in The Universe.

And that's okay.

So you're a pantheist?

No, I believe he is a mysticist.