doglover wrote:Yes, Cephus, believing in God DOES make me feel better. That's because, I've FELT God's presence at certain times in my life.
How do you know? How do you know that instead of feeling God, you didn't feel the 'devil' of another pantheon, sent to mislead you from the one true path? How do you know that your brain wasn't malfunctioning? How do you know that you didn't get abducted by aliens and their mind-control beams aren't affecting you? How do you know any of this, it's all empty claims without some objective support.
Quote:Someone HAD to create the universe and all life forms, IMO. Maybe I'm wrong...maybe everything just HAPPENED. I don't know. Faith isn't logical Cephus. It's mystical and highly personal... faith defies logic. While you may consider faith a weakness and an irrational way to live one's life(and that certainly is your perogative to do so) I don't.
Faith without some logical basis is worthless. Otherwise, why is it better to believe in God than it is to believe in Allah or Vishnu or Enki or any of the millions of other deities man has invented to believe in?
Faith doesn't defy logic, faith flies in the face of logic. Faith is wishful thinking and warm, fuzzy feelings. Faith is wanting something that doesn't exist in objective reality. Sure, it would be nice to have a million dollars, but all the faith in the world doesn't make it so. Faith in Santa Claus doesn't put presents under the tree.
Besides, the evidence shows that the universe came into being just fine without resorting to mystical father figures in the sky. That's what education gives us. Lack of education and failure to examine the evidence gives us ignorance and failure to comprehend reality.
