Neither the Godists or the Dawkinists can argue this one and it's been done to death so to parapharase a classic letter, 'yes Virginia there is a santaclause or god...it exists in the hearts or minds'
Believe what you want! But best for us all to not ram our dogmas and ims down other peoples throats
I think it is great that people have God to believe in as people need something to believe in when there doesn't seem to be any logic answer to things that happen in life. At the end of the day though, my answer to this would be "no".
When I was a kid I think I believed in god because my mother told me that he was real and being my mother I trusted everything she ever told me must be true. I also was a strong believer in Santa Claus. I remember having an argument with my friend Jimmy about Santa clause and gradually I had to agree that Santa probably wasn't real but make believe. Have you ever thought of the words "make believe" MAKE BELIEVE say it slowly and you might get the message in those words. Ok so here I am, my belief in Santa clause was shattered. The whole story was a made up lie. What else was I told that was also a lie? I was thinking about this a few weeks ago. The creation of Santa clause has turned more people away from religion than anything else. Whoever created this Santa Claus myth created a fatal virus to the fairy tale of this god myth.
Is it better to learn from ones experience or what some guy says his research showed him? As a young child i grew up in the Aglican church which is a stray from the cotholic. In it membership was like a lifestyle. I was invited to a penticostal church when i got in my teens and i felt a major difference because people were praising and worshipping God and i saw them getting in what they called the annointing of the holy Spirit or being filled with the holyGhost. I got baptized and for seven years i saw people filled and spoke in tongues but never me. I wondered why and was told that if/when i believe, i thought i did believe then in 1990 i had the experience and it was so overwhelming even a long standing fear of death that i had was gone and i was now standing in crowds and speaking as if i had not been the shy guy of only months earlier. My life took drastic changes and i saw miracles performed. You don't have time to read all my testimonies if i should write them. I just need an Atheist to explain to me what if not the Holy spirit being real that happened on the 20th day of August about 1:30pm 1990 that made my language change and my body to shake as if i was not the owner and in that moment it was lie the other members were not there and i was just reaching at the foot of a thone with his majesty loving me/.
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