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Why do we believe in God?
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Maybe because we need answers and when we don't have them, we want them whichever way we get them? IOW, I don't understand this therefore we need an answer. Right or wrong is not as relavant as the fact that we now have an answer.
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Read The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker.
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The times that I have believed in God have been when in I was in terrible personal danger and when overwhelmed by grief. With the passage of time the need for the belief from those particular causes, lessens. I have been less inclined to seek God in times of joy and happiness. That difference is probably egotism of a sort--joy is for me while pain and fear are for God.
The intellectual pursuit of a belief in God is a different sort of thing altogether, almost a different God. For me, I think that Aquinas' various proofs attack the problem pretty effectively, though for some reason a satisfying argument about God does not bring me any closer to that which I seek, a reason for faith. Ultimately, my desire or need for an intellectual God comes from being completely unsatisfied by cosmology. I find a causeless singularity imperfect. That's not a proof of God, but is evidence for a personal need. Bot |
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How do you account for primative tribes of people who worship a God or Gods then ? .P.S. Wot's hairdressing got to do with anything ?
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P.S. Bad grammer ..! .Shudda bin...." Have you read what I have written ?
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[http://languageandgrammar.com/2008/01/14/youve-got-problems-not-issues/ ] "A liberal is someone who feels they owe a great debt to their fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money." |
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"Why is 'Did you read what I wrote' poor grammer ?"
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[http://languageandgrammar.com/2008/01/14/youve-got-problems-not-issues/ ] "A liberal is someone who feels they owe a great debt to their fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money." |
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I tend to think of religion as a fireplace. When it is bitterly cold outside you want to step by the fire and get warm. Therefore, you build a fireplace in your shack for those times. Isn't TA with the cosmological camp where they believe that because the universe might not have existed, we need an explaination as to why it does?
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To what extent do psychological or sociological explanations of our belief systems effect whether or not we continue to hold those beliefs? Do we raise the bar on the reasons for our belief if we know we have a psychological tendency to accept certain beliefs?
I remember a faculty search committee I was on. There were two final candidates giving teaching demonstrations. One was a balding older man and the other a young woman with blonde hair and a tight sweater. Our initial agreement was that the woman was the better teacher. But, I had recently read an essay which analyzed student evaluations of teachers and showed that good looking teachers got better reviews than less good looking teachers. So, I asked myself, if I consciously think about the fact that I am psychologically predisposed to prefer the younger woman, can I get a more objective comparison of their teaching skills? I finally concluded that the man was the better teacher. I raised the topic with the whole search committee but no one was really interested in thinking about the extent to which we all might be swayed by factors not directly relevant to the issue at hand. I'm aware that there are virtually no independent rational grounds for our belief in cause and effect, yet I happily continue to live life as a scientific believer. Not so with the idea of God.
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Does anyone besides me think that we are so arrogant that we cannot accept "I don't know" as an answer and that we accept this concept of god because we want an answer and we cannot accept that this is something we don't know?
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