Why do you believe in god?

Not another one of those, please...

Let me redirect you to a recent post similar to this. The answers will be about the same as if they replied here.
Do you believe in "GOD" ,and the "Great" beyond ?

Not this shit again. I believe in god because I believe in myself, duh.

soo basically your saying that your a GOD?? ryu-kun??? ^_^ *grin*

oh, you. I thought you know that. XD

O.o no i didnt T_T

now you do. pray to me! XD

Don't like to be an ass ....

but you can continue your chat at another section or at PM ..
thanks for the understanding ...

OT :
Familiar topic is familiar ... I believe in God because i feel i have to .. i don't have any regret about it .. and i have something better to do than complaining about my God's existence ..
that's all

I don't really believe in god, although I like to use god as an answer to questions that haven't been answered by science.

I believe in God and your belief is that you don't believe in God. It is as simple as that. People need a reason or explanation to live a happy life. They need to hold on to some little known statement or fact and know for themselves that it is true or else they would feel lost, confused, depressed, etc. It is like being in a forest. If you don't know where the trail is then you feel frightened, but once you think you know where the trail is then you feel happier. Regardless of beliefs, don't you believe that happiness is all that really matters?

Im going to ask you a few questions that will also confuse the hell outta you

if god doesn't exist then why has his name been passed down for so long?

why has the bible which was created long ago still written to this day?

"Im going to ask you a few questions that will also confuse the hell outta you

if god doesn't exist then why has his name been passed down for so long?

why has the bible which was created long ago still written to this day?"

1. what name? What god/gods or which faith?
2. It isn't "written" it get rewritten to reflex the culture of today/yesterday? Just read the Old Testaments and compare them to all the "new" stuff there is today.

I'm not one of those smarmy in your face atheist but my reasoning for the existence of religion was in some ways to answer the unknown or attempt to answer it, and to keep order among people.

Well the idea of God never fades, and there's been scientific proof that even cavemen before were doing rituals to revere a Higher Being. His name may vary, but the basics are still there: 1) He created everything 2) He represents good and would very much appreciate it if we follow that 3) He has mystical/supernatural/awesome powers and he can blow shit up.

The very rite of burial refers to the belief on the afterlife and means of maintaining corpses (mummification) refer to believing in resurrection.

Plus killing is a more fun and immediately effective means of crowd control. Why rely on religion if you can kill? There has to be a reason why the idea of God still sticks beside as a mean of crowd control.

Atheists always try to answer with questions. And unless OP starts another question that does not belong the the other "God and Great Beyond" thread, lets kill this one to save space.

It's easy to see why Humans came up with an after life and deity/deities.
Humans started to evolve to have consciousness of death probably over 100,000 years ago.

Humans saw that they stopped moving and breathing and wondered what happened.
They couldn't wrap there heads around it so they made up an answer based on what they observed with primitive means.

Once religion was created it was more of a personal thing until humans started to Create settlements around 10,000 years ago.
With this new experience of living in larger groups humans understood that they needed to come up with new laws for stability and religion was an easy way of coercion.

If you study the history of Religion you can see that the civilization that conquered others would carry over their religion to others spreading it.
So the strongest were the ones who kept their religion alive.
And in an attempt to make it somewhat easier for other settlements to take in their Religion the people would allow them to mold it with some of their own views.
You notice this similarity in the characteristics of different religions and how the newer ones copy from the older ones.

After science started to take the place of "the god of the gaps" the view of god changed to become more inhuman.
God suddenly wasn't always having physical contact with events and people.
God eventually became outside space or time.
This was due to science being used to push away the unknown.

Yet no matter how far science tries to expand its reach, it could never grasp the wholeness of creation. The largest defined existence as of now is called the "Known Universe".

Like in the later part of the Book of Job in the Bible, God challenges Job, a human who complains about his loss, to seek the control of nature that is like His, or do the unimaginable like a God would. I'm not pushing away science, but I believe that science exist to study what God created. To believe solely on what we already know. I believe God is leading humanity to further knowledge, like how Galileo's search for God in the celestial heavens lead to his scientific discoveries.

Hey, what if we turn this thread to a "Science and Religion" thread? The other one is focused on defining what atheists and theists are.

The absence of one thing cannot be taken to be proof of another. Religion, at its very core, embodies faith - the blind belief in that which is unproven and unverifiable - where every answer to every question and every doubt is equally meaningless. And it is not that this way of faith is even a terrible thing, but it cannot be called a good thing either. In truth it can only be called a senseless thing. To believe with conviction in religion, or indeed anything for which you cannot verify, is to gamble your beliefs.

The wisest course, whenever you don't know the answer to something, is to believe that you don't know the answer. Atheists are certain there is no god, and everyone else is certain there is, and no one knows anything for sure, but somehow they are all so certain...

To me, I think the existence of god is unlikely, especially as detailed by any of the traditional religions. I find it humorous especially how people who profess to follow these religions blur the vision of god as depicted in their religion with western ideologies, how everyone assumes this god is purely benevolent. People mold their religion to fill in the gaps of what they do and don't know, they rework it time and again so that their beliefs that are unverifiable mesh properly with those that are, so that at the end of the day they can feel like they still have an answer for everything.

Maybe god does exist. Maybe he really does care. Maybe he really doesn't. Maybe he is benevolent, maybe he is evil, and maybe he was always just a dream born of wishful thinking. I base my moral code on the exchange of respect and strive always to do what is right by the ideologies of my society - and I believe in what makes sense and what is verifiable. And I know that if god really does exist, and that if he really does care, then it wont make a difference to him if I prayed to him on Sundays. And if he does exist, but doesn't care? Then I really don't either.