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Originally Posted by verticalgyro

I don't believe in the existence of god, you say he exists. Make me change my opinion.

Come on, treat yourself.

Pah! That's an easy one!

Originally Posted by Markintime

What if God is not a supreme omnipresent being but an aspect of our consciousness?

What if God is a giant Gerbil with halitosis, haemorrhoids and a collection of Debbie Harry CDs?

Originally Posted by PBUH

What if God is a giant Gerbil with halitosis, haemorrhoids and a collection of Debbie Harry CDs?

That would mean he was in 7 Armoured, late '80s. Pure speculation.

Originally Posted by Markintime

If someone believes in God and draws comfort and strength from that belief why should it be necessary to 'open their eyes'? Surely if it is a source of comfort and strength it's better to have it than to have a void? You aren't benefiting the believer by exposing his belief. You are, in effect, forcing your beliefs on another, why not leave him to his delusions?

I'm not aiming this at you directly, it's more a general question to anyone who doesn't believe.

Good point. It may be a case of Atheism only very recently being "allowed" in society wanting to express it's voice. Heresay or even being the wrong flavour of Christian was after all punishable by death at points in our history

Religion and its unquestioned promotion has been forced upon people for so long it is inevitable that non-believers want to push back. My 8 year old came home from school telling me that I am not her real father not so long ago, all because the local CofE vicar had been in spouting his nonsense as the Headmaster smiled that special benign smile that we reserve for the Queen Mum, puppies and fairy tales.

Maybe its time for a mutual ceasefire but the Church, in it's widest sense, would never agree to that because they rely on preaching and lecturing to keep the word alive

Originally Posted by skintboymike

I'm not. I'm pointing out that God in his various guises is no less fictional than Father Christmas or the Tooth Fairy. Just because a greater proportion of people around the world believe in God doesn't make him any more or less real; It just makes him more popular.

All is fiction. All is story. How else do humans communicate, via binary code?

Borrowing slapstick logic from T'Internet posters who can't spell Claus an argument doth not make. It's axiomatic that the two genres of story don't equate.

Have you started this thread because you don't get enough religious callers knocking at your door?

It's quite simple, there is no such thing as a "God", except for Nature, that is to say, Science.

Organised Religions are just examples of organised conmen preying on the weak minded and superstious.

I feel quite sure that one day calling youself religious will have you declared mentally ill. The more devout someone is, then the more need there will be to have them committed.

Ritual for tradition's sake is ok and would evolve over time anyway, but all this ritual for superstion? No, it's total bollocks.

Originally Posted by verticalgyro

I'm afraid you're going to have try a little harder.

I don't believe in the existence of god, you say he exists. Make me change my opinion.

Come on, treat yourself.

I didn't say "He Exists". I said God is intelligible as is your consciousness. And that your consciousness does not exist evidentially. However you're prepared to intuit your consciousness. Play with a straight bat.

Originally Posted by viceroy

Con!


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