God is a myth.

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discuss.

A big rhetorical AMEN to that.

Waiting for Raggy to come here ....

I'll wait for evidence either way. I lean towards atheism, but I am actually agnostic.

Why is it about every week or two someone has to post this or a similar topic. God is dead, God is an illusion, God is this, God is that. Are you trying to make yourselves believe it or something? Because it really is getting annoying, and smacks of trollism and baiting. It's offensive. At least the ones discussing this or that book had some constructive merit.

My 2 cents. I won't stay to discuss since this dead horse has been beaten enough in these forums and I'm bored of getting on this merry-go-round again.

I'm agnostic as well, I don't think I actually lean towards atheism, more like in the middle I think.

Although I believe to be kinda skeptical or lean towards to be that about the Bible, which it looks very likely to be a series of writings without any inspiration from God, other than men themselves and part of the real inspiration being previous cultures and previous religions as well, not God or at least not in a direct form as it is claimed to be. In that case the God from the Bible could be seen as a myth, it is discribed in a way who was more acceptable at the time if you take the literal interpretation or the interpretation intended to be at the time, which it wouldn't be acceptable by today's standards.

Most likely.

myth IS everything.

I don't think God is a myth. He is male so he is actually a mythter.

And everything is from God. Are we establishing a pattern here?

I'm more agnostic than anything too, albeit an agnostic who embraces his own subjective experiences as meaningful even though it's unlikely there's any universal truth to them. I wouldn't say that G!d is a myth but that all descriptions of G!d that exist or might ever be attempted will invariably be myth, which isn't to say there's no truth to them at all. There may or may not be truth to them. I'm not using the word in the popular sense of an untruth, but in the sense of a genre that includes a lot of narratives about the world based as much on human imagination as on science.

I've decided to take that position as well.

There always remains the distinct possibility of there being a god due to the nature of such things. If it was a God and didn't want to show itself, we wouldn't be able to find or comprehend it, not with this level of technology. And if it doesn't exist, we can't be certain. It's a matter of faith that God does or doesn't exist.

It takes a lot to break me up at 7am - thank you.

There is something sentient greater than us, which we can't begin to describe or know, and which we sometimes express through myths.

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Perhaps mythic in writing or storytelling.. i personally believe in God and am a reluctantly self professed christian... although i dont like using that word, because of the stigma it has earned through the years... i think it was a derogatory name to begin with.
I love God, and i am not threatened by athiests or agnostics... I know what i personally believe and respect the views of others... sure i may sound ignorant or archaic, but Its been a long and drawn out process of faith to get where i am ... I dont like arguing about the existance of God.... I am not trying to evangelize the world every waking minute... Atheism takes just as much faith as far as i am concerned. I truly think that we all can coexist respectfully. i am tired of the christian church going after homosexuality and other hot topics today.. its all wrong to hate anyone or to be caught up in a game of "i am holier than thou. "
The truth is that everyone is screwed up in varying degrees and we all need to help each other, instead of singling each other out. says the dirty hippie.

Would be interesting to see what Jamie Heineman and Adam Savage would say, and could they bust it.