Prove me wrong

[CIA]

Faith is personal. Make your own god.

 

[ZZ-Tops89]

I'm sorry, but I'm on a diet - I'm afraid my doctor said no flamewars.
Bad for the ol' ticker, y'know.

Wait, from my keyboard cometh the inevitable "don't assume there'll be a flame war" comment.

Max, you shouldn't assume all religion threads will end up as flame wars. Scratch that, I just looked at some of the more recent posts, I guess you were right. But I'm still posting since I got halfway through this post and I'm not about to have that time end up being "wasted time".

 

[Rigs83]

You started a religion thread...therefore, you will be inevitably proven wrong by someone, but only after a significant amount of flames.

And why would it be risky to follow something that makes you feel as if you have a purpose in life?

Jonestown [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown] anyone? I say stand on your own two feet before you lean on something.

 

[Ridonculous_Ninja]

At least 75% percent of the world is wrong about God and the spiritual world.

Should be interesting to see who's right when we die.

 

[Rigs83]

Just go with the majority religion. Its probably safest.
HELL YEAH! CHRISTIANITY!

I believe that is George Carlin's hat philosophy.

George Carlin
You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they're wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that, it might be important.

There's more here [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Carlin].

 

[SomeUnregPunk]

why does it matter? by the time you find out if there is a god or not and what type of god or gods there are you will be dead.

 

[Reklore]

Buddhists don't believe their religions is the only "way". Religion Doesn't get you closer to God N00B it only tells you what you have to do to get closer to God and essentially all major religions tell you to to be good to others and yourself and that's not "too risky". If you picked the wrong god or religion, oh well what you gonna do about it when you're DEAD. If we knew for certain that there is no god at all then we might as well be cunts and douches to each other. At least in my opinion.

I don't believe in god and I don't be a **** or a DOUCHE to people. I?m good to people because i like to see them happy. If someone NEEDs religion to be good, there not truly good

I didn't say you need religion to be good. Most religions "reward" you for being good; so by being good you will go to heaven despite not believing in God. It may be a godless "be here now" heaven but that's why you are good with others so YOU can feel good about it right now and if you are good to people all the time you must be a saint.
And I thought this thread was about "Proving [OP] Wrong".

I'll need to wait 200 years to see if I'll be a Saint, but only if they dont know I'm an Atheist

And most religion may say that they reward good IE Christianity, but they also let you get away with murder if you repent, so in away, people will do what they want because they know they?re going to heaven. And all that don?t believe go to hell, so they're followrs try and get overs to join the church to SAVE them.

It maybe the same for after religions, but i talk about what i know(or think i know)

And about the OP, I'll defend it because its close to my Logic!

 

[Lancer723]

1. Believe in God
2. Die
3. ?????
4. Profit!

or

1. Do not believe in God
2. Die
3. ??????
4. Actually that's it, because you're dead and there's no afterlife


Either way....

 

[the1ultimate]

I'm thinking there has to be flaws to my logic. If you can find them please point them out.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that all the religions say that only their religion is right and everyone else's is wrong. If so this can only mean that there are definitely people who have created religious beliefs, whether god exists or not.

If the gods that we speak of do not exist then you would have to agree that the mind created god. If it is possible that the mind could create god then I think it's too risky to choose one of the religions and spend your whole life worshipping that god when you could find out that the chosen god is the wrong one or there might not even be a god.

Is it possible for the mind to create a true god? I don't know.

But most religions believe not only that they have the true religion, but that their religion shines out from amongst the rest.
In the digital age you'd think people would know better. The internet is the perfect breeding ground for clones, and nothing shines out, especially if it doesn't appear in the first page of google results.

In any case your argument is far from complete, and I will put forward an alternative using a Discworld quote.

This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all true you'll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn't then you've lost nothing, right?" When he died he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking sticks and one of them said, "We're going to show you what we think of Mr Clever Dick in these parts..."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Hogfather)

 

[pompom8volt]

I'm already and atheist, can't help you.

 

[Saylek]

By your logic, there are multiple conclusions:

Man's mind created God.

or

Man's mind perceives God.

or

Man's Mind cannot accept nothingness, and so God is just an expression of the unknown.


Therefore,

God is real in the mind,
God is real, and we sense it,

or God is real in the same way that the mathematical term infinity is real, it is used only to make sense of what we cannot empirically express.

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