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NeedToUseYou -> RE: Why Do You Believe In What You Can't See? (10/15/2008 4:02:56 AM)
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ORIGINAL: knees2you
Was just sitting here wondering why
people believe in what they can't see?
What does this being do for them, what kind of purpose does it serve?
How has it changed your lives?
Always, knees[sm=cactus.gif]
I'm just wondering the older I get why people care if others believe that god exists, at all.
I mean, most people believe, we have higher purposes, and standards, than just to be mindless animals. God, Jesus, most religious figures, are an attempt (IMO), to put that concept into a physical form. There is no evidence, that there is a higher purpose, but nearly everyone believes things, without any reason
Most believe, children should be cared for. You could ask why, it doesn't really matter, there is no evidence, that life is important, and beyond that to be purely logical about it, we are overpopulated thus we should be encouraging death, not promoting others lives.
However, the concept of right to life, is very important to people, though it is just a belief, nothing more. It doesn't really exist, it's as absurd as a belief in god, to the atheist.
The idea of love, caring, and all emotions are illogical, and should be weighted as nothing, in a logical world, yet, we all believe they are important. They are simply because we all agree they are, but in cold reality they aren't. More beliefs in nothing.
Why do we believe slavery is wrong? Again, it's just a made up human concept, that if you believe it, you believe it based on other made up principles. Thus are as foolish, as any religious person could be believe in the supposed invisible man in the sky.
Actually, if anyone examines what they think, you'll find, unless you are a true sociopath, that almost our entire system we use day to day, is based on nothing more than group consensus, there are no facts, proving that slavery is wrong, we just agree it is thus it is. There are no facts that life is valuable, we just say its so and it is. There is no basis for all our principles we live by other than the illogic of emotion, or some made up premise we treat as fact.
Not much different than a belief in a god, that simply embodies these higher ideas in a physical form. I do think God, is a bit dated now, as he doesn't embody embody our modern idealized version of higher purpose anymore, like he used to, but that is all it's about, nothing more, in my mind.
Why do people want to believe in god? That's a really dumb question really, why wouldn't someone want to believe in an idealized being that embodies what we perceive to be perfection. It gives hope that we can be better than we are.
Now, do I believe in god, no, do I believe in higher purpose, sure. Am I going to act like I'm better than someone that believes in a physical god, that encompasses all our modern day beliefs of right and wrong. No, because it's not any more illogical really than believing in right and wrong to begin with.
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