Why do you think God exists?

Preacher ✝ said:
We also have science-defying empirical evidence.

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I feel it is worth mentioning that this is a random pdf published by some bloke who formerly headed a jesuit uni and is now publishing online courses and "papers" like these on what is basically (and literally in the url called) his blog, which was never peer reviewed or cited by anyone else or published in a scientific journal and the bloke in question holds no degrees and has never pursued a field in any hard science, only "philosophy".
 
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Bloitzhole said:
I feel it is worth mentioning that this is a random pdf published by some bloke who formerly headed a jesuit uni and is now publishing online courses and "papers" like these on what is basically (and literally in the url called) his blog, which was never peer reviewed or cited by anyone else or published in a scientific journal and the bloke in question holds no degrees and has never pursued a field in any hard science, only "philosophy".
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I find it worth nothing that YOU, Sir, are a NIGGER, and the article has sources.
 
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I'm probably one of those agnostic types, open to higher powers etc but not in the sense of its a big man in the clouds kind of thing. My Grandfather was a Buddhist (the real deal, from Burma, not the whole fake stuff you see in the west now for trendy reasons), and I like the more spiritual approach of reincarnation and just basic respect for fellow man and nature.
I always love when people who believe in nothing tell me that religion is for people scared to die, that they need something to believe in to not be scared of death, but I disagree, to die while believing you will be in heaven/some other place/reincarnated to a better life is facing death with open arms and embracing all aspects of life and the end of it. To believe in nothing and entering a void is far scarier, and I feel like their deathbeds will be a lot more lonely and scary.
 
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At the end of the day, baring any religious or spiritual motivation, basically everyone receives their information from a book or other person. You cannot know for certain if said information is true, for you cannot prove it so. Thus, to believe or not believe is to have faith in one set of information over another.

So in my mind, I am merely choosing one faith over another on my own personal basis.
 
Not necessarily a believer in a magic sky monkey but consciousness itself has always bugged me, why do we actually experience shit, why aren't we just robots that take input - process - do output.
 
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Preacher ✝ said:
I think it's worth noting that you're a nigger, and the article has sources.
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This is an incredible random quote offering, if I may offer a minor edit?
”I find it worth nothing that YOU, Sir, are a NIGGER!”

Just a hint of refinement. I’ve been awake ever so long, you should indulge me.
 
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Faith, primarily, but also that there's no logical explanation for the complexity of life which absolutely must be designed.

Tearful Atheists will cope and seethe, citing "but m-m-muh god of gaps!!1!" It's like saying I don't know where the last slice of pizza went after my roommate goes into the kitchen, yeah I'm filling in the fucking gap you retard, using common sense.
 
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Mao Hao Hao said:
I always love when people who believe in nothing tell me that religion is for people scared to die, that they need something to believe in to not be scared of death, but I disagree, to die while believing you will be in heaven/some other place/reincarnated to a better life is facing death with open arms and embracing all aspects of life and the end of it. To believe in nothing and entering a void is far scarier, and I feel like their deathbeds will be a lot more lonely and scary.
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Fear of death is part of it for many people but 'religion just exists because people were scared of death' is a gross falsehood if you bother to think of it for a few seconds. Our history and religions would be vastly different if all it was was that we wanted was some thing to tell ourselves before we died. Some religions don't even feature an afterlife.
 
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If you studied physics and other hard sciences you know the entirety of the universe is dependent on extremely specific set of numbers and any slight change would have turned us all to mush. It's not a "god of gaps" there is no conceivable way to find out why those constants exist and any "there's a parallel universe who's slightly different" is just further retardation.
 
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1. There's something rather than nothing. Why should that be? Well, there must be some kind of SOMETHING that exists by necessity. That is, it cannot fail to exist. It makes no sense to talk about that being something like the physical universe, because that's a finite thing, or a finite collection of finite things. It has to be something infinite, like the Dao... or God.
2. If you believe in objective morality, you better believe there's something underpinning it. Not just so that we as humans can know what's right or wrong. Rather, if we're going to think of good and evil as serious concepts rather than just subjective preference statements, there has to be something absolute to give that coherence.
3. There was this guy named Jesus who rose from the dead, and despite all the fedora tipping, there's some pretty solid historical evidence of this.
 
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SSj_Ness said:
Faith, primarily, but also that there's no logical explanation for the complexity of life which absolutely must be designed.

Tearful Atheists will cope and seethe, citing "but m-m-muh god of gaps!!1!" It's like saying I don't know where the last slice of pizza went after my roommate goes into the kitchen, yeah I'm filling in the fucking gap you retard, using common sense.
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I see no issue with the idea of evolved life and God. It’s an elegant mechanism - set up a world, which changes. Start off life, give it a way it can change with it. Poke here and there. Voilà.
 
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Otterly said:
I see no issue with the idea of evolved life and God. It’s an elegant mechanism
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Nothing explained by invoking an omnipotent supernatural deity is "elegant". It immediately creates an infinitely bigger, more complicated question than anything you could've possibly hoped to explain with its existence.
 
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