Where does religious belief come from? (1 Viewer)

[rounder]

Forgive me, but I'm not going to. I think I have made progress on the god thing by what we've discussed in the last few days, namely the issue of defining god prior to discussing him. That's my strongest argument and as long as that stands I have no reason to speculate on these other things.

As for "how all of this happened" I'm perfectly content to say I don't know. I don't have to know everything and many things I will never be able to explain. But for the sake of answering your point, I do not find "then it must have been god" claims convincing in the least, and I think you know this all too well. It's like trying to solve a murder investigation by pinning the murder on some person noone has ever heard of and the police have no record of his existence. I'm only willing to consider suspects that are known, because only that makes sense.

If anything, I'm a lot more interested in how and why people believe in god, because human psychology is something that concerns me right here, not somewhere in the far reaches of the universe where unexplained things exist.

There's a peculiar thing to you, Martin. I think I can very fairly conclude that you are not interested in actually find out the truth of the matter "Does God Exist?" But rather, you are merely searching for any possible argument that disproves God's existence. You want to justify atheism in any possible way than actually search for the truth.

I don't really care, I only wanted you to understand the argument I was making before you dismissed it. And both you and I know that God's existence has not been disproved, if it had, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Nice article, i enjoyed reading it. It shows atheism as bad as theism in terms of taking a leap of faith.

Indeed.

 

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[ßöмßäяðîëя]

There's a peculiar thing to you, Martin. I think I can very fairly conclude that you are not interested in actually find out the truth of the matter "Does God Exist?" But rather, you are merely searching for any possible argument that disproves God's existence. You want to justify atheism in any possible way than actually search for the truth.

I don't really care, I only wanted you to understand the argument I was making before you dismissed it. And both you and I know that God's existence has not been disproved, if it had, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

What if Atheism is the truth?

 

[Ford Prefect]

Whenever i have asked someone why they are religious, it has always come down to fear. One way or another it always comes back to fear. Fear of death, fear of being alone, fear of not knowing why we exist etc. etc. The second people loose that fear they loose religion.