manmustwac: That is true mostly in developing countries where people that have bad roads bad hospitals high unemployment corrupt leaders high crime rates etcetra etcetra look to God for comfort & assurance

FOLYKAZE: Nobody to run to anymore. Thinking cap cant be widen so God comes in.

Ray McBlue: Man was born, man asks "why am I alive", Man makes up BS story, BS story spreads like wildfire because people have nothing else to do but tell BS stories.


In a more serious note, we needed answers, and the concept of god filled a massive gap in our knowledge, it's a good thing that science and reason is gradually making that gap disappear.

RationalDude: But, have you ever wondered why different humans around the world (who had no previous contact with each other) choose to explain their existence with the concept of a god?

saintvc: WHY DO PEOPLE FEEL THEY DONT NEED GOD

RationalDude: Does a belief in god negate reason and intelligence?

saintvc: WHY DO PEOPLE FEEL THEY DONT NEED GOD

FOLYKAZE:

When reason and intelligence comes in, it will stand against God and religious belief. Last time I check, Allah stated in the quran people shouldn't question.... Jehovah said clearly in the bible we should reason things within our own understanding as it is a threat to belief in God.

So therefore, belief in God and religion negate reason and intelligence

RationalDude: From your post, it seems like you are specifically referring to just the Christian/Muslim God(s). Mind you, there are many different Gods and religions all over the world not just the major two. So, I ask again, does a belief in god negate reason and intelligence?

RationalDude: Does it matter if god is real or not? Why do humans feel so much need for a god?

aManFromMars:
Simple answer: No.

RationalDude: Exactly the response I expected from Folykaze.
P.S: are you the same person as muskeeto? I want to send you a p.m

Alfa Seltzer:
Poverty.

The rich have no such need, naturally.

RationalDude: I think poverty would only apply in poorly developed nations.

Kay 17:




1. A well ordered world necessitates an intelligent creator and negates blind Nature

2. A well ordered world reflects the well ordered mind of the intelligent creator

3. Hence the well ordered mind demands a creator

RationalDude: That's an interesting response but what would you say about the pope? The dude is in charge of one of the largest organisation in the world and yet he still has a need for God. I think poverty would only apply in poorly developed nations.

aManFromMars:

Yeah.. Prncksh@gmail.com

Reyginus: I think I will have to go with Kay below

Alfa Seltzer:

The pope is in charge but has no pessession. He is a pampered pauper. Poverty is the root cause of religion.

RationalDude: Check your mailbox

aManFromMars:
Not NL's pm service.. send to the email address I posted earlier : prncksh@gmail.com

RationalDude: I've sent it!

RationalDude: Do you truly believe that this world is ''well-ordered''? Or could you kindly explain what you mean by ''well-ordered''?

RationalDude: I'll answer this if you can explain why god stopped existing when I stopped believing. Come to think of it, if for some odd reason, all humans stopped believing in god, god would cease to exist.

From the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Final Proof of the Non-Existence of God

The Final Proof of the non-Existence of God was proved by a Babel Fish.

Now, it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some have chosen to see it as the final proof of the NON-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that You exist, and so therefore, by Your own arguments, You don't. QED"

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic