Is there a god?

Finally broke away from the driving game? Nice to have your input elsewhere.

The wonderful thing about our enlightened times is that while I might laugh at your delusional beliefs I allow you to have them.

If your Bible Thumpers managed to escalate your theocracy would you allow me to have my beliefs? Or would we return to the Inquisition? Would your theocracy be any better than a Muslim theocracy?

You don't allow me to do anything! I do as i please. For being enlightened you still think yourself higher then most, all most like a "New Messiah?" Funny you disclaim your post, your intension, your distain, your mockery. And then you have the balls to do it all over again. So what does the new diety want his name to be or is new messiah sufficient?

You have your beliefs whether we allow it or not. This works only if your human but since your a deity. I guess you make up the rules. You are allowed and we are not, it that right?

I think you would start your own given the chance.

I don't know, can i ask what you see in our future my holyone?

I said it before and I will say it again.
You sound like Southern Trailer Trash.
Your mom and dad were probably brother and sister

This trailer trash has got your number. When you can't debate you often resort to personal attacks instead of dealing with what is really bothering you. Arn't you sopposed to be above all this petty personal attacks, you being a canadian and all, this is also discounting the possibility of yourself being a "New Messiah" of course. We the dumbed down had never considered you would stupe to our level but stupe you did. Does that make you feel all rosy inside? Or are you just sluming it? If you can't come up with something more educated to say then that i fail to see what makes you any better the then "southern trailer trash" you claim me to be?

Do you ever say anything new? Or do you rehash the same **** over and over.
Come on buddy - get a bit more creative.

Do you? Creativity works both ways.

You don't need to believe what your parents believe. If your heart agrees with your mind, you know what you believe is right. Bad things happen to good people because there is evil in the world.

Welcome elfish.

Thank you, Drnaline.

Here is an interesting documentary

CBC - The Lense - Without God

CBC News: The Lens: Feature Story

Tuesday January 9, 2007 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld

In the early 1970s, John Lennon wrote the lyrics "Imagine there's no heaven…no hell below us…and no religion too. Imagine all the people, living life in peace." Imagine. But is it possible to be a good person if you don't believe in God? Noted author and oncologist Dr. Robert Buckman says "yes" in Without God.

For years, it was proclaimed that "God is Dead", that religious faith was in decline worldwide. And yet, in North America, over 90 per cent of the population still believes in God; and in the U.S., the traditional separation of Church and State is being challenged. Dr. Robert Buckman is part of the 10 per cent who claim no religious affiliation. Renowned for his work with cancer patients and as a writer and broadcaster, Buckman is also President of the Humanist Association of Canada. He's written several books on living and dying a secular life, all with his trademark wit and highlighting his own brushes with death.

In Without God, Buckman takes the viewer on a journey to explore the roots of spiritual belief and to challenge the need to believe in God. He meets people who are comfortable with life without religion, who believe it's possible to have moral values without faith in God. The film also examines the scientific basis for belief, including the work of Laurentian University neurologist Dr. Michael Persinger, who suggests that a predisposition to spirituality might be hard-wired right into our brains.

Buckman's views are also challenged by some religious leaders in the film. As long as people have existed, we have constructed beliefs to help us understand a world that often seems terrifying and arbitrary. Faith lends comfort in times of trouble, binds communities together, and helps us mark important passages such as birth and marriage. But after horrific events such as Sept. 11 or the Tsunami disaster, some people will still ask "Where is God?"

Without God is directed by Pat O'Brien, who co-produced with Gillian Lowrey. It is produced by Force Four Entertainment with Penguin Films in association with Vision TV and CBC Newsworld.

You have a choice. You may tell anyone and everyone why you made that particular choice, but to claim that your choice is better is wrong. Choice is choice, whether it is fundamented or not, God exists to those who believe in him, and doesn't to those who don't. It is that simple, we complicate it, IMO "God" cares only if you believe, and not what you believe in, or else he would come and show us personally what is what.

It takes more faith to believe there is not a God then to believe in God.

{That is GOD not to be confused with allah the moon god and guardian rock of the dead.}

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Please explain this nonsense further.

Comparing Christianity in a democratic country to a Muslim theocracy is assinine. Muslims live in peace in a democratic country where as Christians are persecuted and abused and forced to convert in Muslim Theocracies.

Here's a few gems for you.

WorldNetDaily: Tortured brickmakers refuse to embrace Islam

http://english.gospelherald.com/article/africa/372/section/christians.aid.in.rescue.of.102.sudanese.slaves/1.htm

..: JOURNAL CHRETIEN [Pakistan Detains Christian Woman For "Insulting" Islam] :..

An intellect wouldn't need an explanation.

Maybe you're right. I don't speak "Idiot."

You don't speak intellect either.

{Professor, I don't speak rude...just some guidlines if you are intending to ask me anything}

Is there a God? welp, there have been looooooooooong periods in my life where l questioned God's existance, but thankfully, he always believed in me.

"God's" existence is unquestioned in my mind. Of course "he" exists. However, "he" floats in the same plane of existence as do imaginary friends. "He" exists in our minds as a source of comfort. "He" is there because our minds cannot comprehend personal non-existence after death. "He" exists primarily as a psychological buffer against the depressing thought of death. People choose to believe in God because it is easier than recognizing the fact that when we die, our consciousness ceases. Its very simple, people (in a broad sense) choose the path of least resistance. It is much more comforting to think that if you put in a little work on Earth that you will be rewarded eternally than to believe that when you die, your consciousness disapears. To an intellectual today, the only remaining question left unanswered is "where did everything come from?". This question is currently being worked on, and developments in "string" and "membrane" theories are proving that we are extremely close.