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AIBU to ask your opinions on God?

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Violetduck · 04/12/2020 21:31

Do you beleive there is a God? I would like to, but how can he exist alongside modern science?

Aibu to believe in something more?

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WhenISnappedAndFarted · 04/12/2020 21:35

I personally don't believe in god. My relatives are and when talking about horrible things that go on reply with 'God works in mysterious ways' and I just can't buy that.

I have absolutely no issue in others believing in god but I don't myself

nothingcanhurtmewithmyeyesshut · 04/12/2020 21:35

No. I dont believe in any religion or God. I believe that Jesus was likely a real person and probably a very charismatic leader but the son of God? No.

HermioneWeasley · 04/12/2020 21:37

Non believer here

YANBU if you believe though, just don’t try and force it on anyone else

HavfrueDenizKisi · 04/12/2020 21:38

I do not believe in a god/s. I think humans have developed brains cognitive enough to feel like they need to 'mean' something on this earth and that life isn't just firing synapses that stop when our bodies die. Hence religion in its many and varied forms.

Stephen fry once had a piece about belief in god and what he said rung so very true. It was something about what you would ask god. I'll see if I can find it.

HavfrueDenizKisi · 04/12/2020 21:40

m.youtube.com/watch?v=-suvkwNYSQo

ChaToilLeam · 04/12/2020 21:40

No reason to believe so I don’t.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 04/12/2020 21:40

My DH is religious. I am a sceptic.
But he had a good point once. He said he believes in evolution and all that, that the god came in before all of it. The absolute beginning of beginnings. That someone had to create the thing which started it all. And maybe occasionally intervene.

flaviaritt · 04/12/2020 21:42

If God exists, He exists alongside modern science, either because we are mistaken about science, or because we are mistaken about God. But I don’t think we will ever know either way unless there is an afterlife.

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr · 04/12/2020 21:42

There is no god. If you think there is, prove it.

MayYouLiveInInterestingTimes · 04/12/2020 21:42

Have you heard of “the problem of evil”? Ink has been wasted on that problem by the greatest thinkers since this concept of one all powerful god appeared. It has never been answered.

God does not exist. I don’t believe in it at all, but as an omnipotent, omniscient, benevolent being - pick two, obviously the combination of three does not exist. I have worked with PMLD young people and think the concept is, bluntly, an insult to all those who suffer through no fault of their own.

buckeejit · 04/12/2020 21:42

I believe in God. I haven't a concrete view though. Was raised in a staunch Presbyterian family & its hard to know what's inbedded into me & what I really believe.

I don't attend a church as find them too prescriptive & usually find the preachers too preachy-I find it difficult to be lectures on aspects that I don't agree with & the focus often seems a little off. The bible is pretty good but I wouldn't take it as gospel 😉

I'm forging my own way with my personal God & what feels like a just moral code. There is much good in most organised religion. Take what you want & leave the rest is sort of my way. The things that make me feel most spiritual are giving thanks for the blessings in my life & being in nature. I'm lucky to live somewhere that there is immense natural beauty. I love a lot of hymns too, there's a lot of resonance in some , 'oh Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, consider all the works thy hand hath made...'

Theworkwitch · 04/12/2020 21:43

It would be a shit fucking god, wouldn't it!! So much pain and suffering.

Gatehouse77 · 04/12/2020 21:43

No, I don't believe in a god. If you look back to the very early gods many of them were related to our lack of understanding of the natural world and emotions - gods of weather, love, etc. The more 'modern' religions were about control of the people and superimposed themselves on the existing beliefs and rituals.

Given that Christianity, Judaism and Islam all believe in the same god I'd argue it's a bit fucked up that for over 2,000 years god hasn't thought to clarify what those beliefs should be. The same 'all loving' god who committed genocide at the time of Noah. I can't believe the human race hasn't done far, far worse in modern times not to have the wrath of 'god' upon them.

blackpoolsneighbour · 04/12/2020 21:44

No, there is no god. A scientist friend says God is the reason it all happened and science is how he did it but I believe the science and not the religion.

TooTrueToBeGood · 04/12/2020 21:45

I don't believe in God personally. If I did though, I don't see why God and science have to be mutually exclusive. If God does exist he will be a scientist in his own right and will utilise science to achieve his aims. Religious people who think they have to choose between their god and science are off their rockers.

TheFormerPorpentinaScamander · 04/12/2020 21:46

@SchrodingersImmigrant

My DH is religious. I am a sceptic. But he had a good point once. He said he believes in evolution and all that, that the god came in before all of it. The absolute beginning of beginnings. That someone had to create the thing which started it all. And maybe occasionally intervene.
I agree with your DH. God exists alongside modern science. I don't know the hows, whys and wherefores, but I do believe there is a God.
ClearingSpaceOnTheTrophyShelf · 04/12/2020 21:46

@SchrodingersImmigrant

My DH is religious. I am a sceptic. But he had a good point once. He said he believes in evolution and all that, that the god came in before all of it. The absolute beginning of beginnings. That someone had to create the thing which started it all. And maybe occasionally intervene.
A good point GrinGrinGrin. Ok
WotWouldCJDo · 04/12/2020 21:47

I don’t believe in any gods, but if I had to I’d probably choose Norse mythology.

zaphodbeeble · 04/12/2020 21:47

Doesn’t exist

blackpoolsneighbour · 04/12/2020 21:48

@brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

There is no god. If you think there is, prove it.
Can you prove that there isn't? I don't believe that there is a god but it's as hard to disprove as it is to prove. People of faith believe in their god because they have faith that the god exists, they presumably don't need to prove it because faith doesn't need proof.
SchrodingersImmigrant · 04/12/2020 21:48

I am firmly in a camp of Stargate😂 God's were all aliens and build pyramids.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 04/12/2020 21:48

*Built

WotWouldCJDo · 04/12/2020 21:49

I agree with your DH. God exists alongside modern science. I don't know the hows, whys and wherefores, but I do believe there is a God

But what’s the point in believing in gods that don’t do anything?

loadypoady · 04/12/2020 21:49

I am a born and bred Roman Catholic and still attended mass regularly prior to lockdown with my Irish born Dad.
I cannot give up that I’m a catholic but I don’t believe in any of it if I’m honest. I plan no funeral as I don’t believe we are resurrected and brought back to life. I have told my husband and now grown up kids I want to be cremated only with no service.
I’m so glad I was brought in the religion though and could never turn my back on it.

turolive · 04/12/2020 21:49

Not a fan tbh.