Is god necessary anymore?

The only need for gods ever to exist was for a crutch for frightened minds that couldn't come to terms with the accident that is their existence, and to explain things they couldn't understand.

Can the world survive without god or does it need his contant supervision?

Two comments, KV.

One: I'm interested in your take on what Husker just wrote.

Two: The last thing in the world that I am asking for -- is PROOF.

I NEVER ask for proof -- unless someone actually says that they can "prove" that there is a God (that has happened a couple of times) or that they can "prove" there are no gods (that has also happened a couple of times).

I would be more than satisfied if a proponent of either side (theist or atheist) were to offer ANY unambiguous evidence in either direction. Frankly, I've never had a theist or an atheist offer anything even remotely close to unambiguous evidence for their position.

Is God necessary anymore? You bet.

Wilso wrote:

The only need for gods ever to exist was for a crutch for frightened minds that couldn't come to terms with the accident that is their existence, and to explain things they couldn't understand.

Please explain where you came up with that!

Ok the is no supreme being. At least no one has been able to prove that there is. And therefore that is proof enough that there is not. I will take the other view since we can not prove that there is not than there must be. Many look at this world of ours and see only it's imperfections. I would like to redirect your sight to see it's beauty and the miracle of life. Did it just evolve or was there some master plan. We can only wonder. I choose to believe that there is some supreme force that created it all.

God as "mythology" isn't needed and was needed to be less destructive in the past. It did, to be fair, have a restraining influence in the past. Now, I think a kind of Native-american nature=spiritualism is the only "religion" that has a future. Globally, people are increasingly becoming under the influence of free thought, free will and education and so are finding how ridiculous it is to turn your mind over to religion that presumes to tell them what is right and wrong. The humanitarian philosophies of the past will have a great contribution to global religions in the coming centuries. People are and will abandon levels of angels and saints of heaven, whatever that religion happens to be. The religions of the future will be out=growths of groups like Baha'i, Ethical Culture, Reform Judaism, Quakerism and the Unitarian=Universalism. Buddhism will have a very short path to this future global religion. Or not.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but i need God still...

I need the hope he represents, i need the comfort that there is still someone in the world who hasn't forgotten about me...

i feel stronger when i know he is there... i don't think i would be nearly as stable if he wasn't there to lean on.

myth or not, i need him.

I see no evidence of its [god's] intervention, and doubt if anything would be different if it stopped doing whatever it is that you think it does.

Terry wrote:

I see no evidence of its [god's] intervention, and doubt if anything would be different if it stopped doing whatever it is that you think it does.

According to the torah, the best mitzvah or tzedaka is anonymous. Jesus says the same thing in Matthew and it's probably a safe bet that Islam holds the same belief. So, why wouldn't god be held to the same standards?