Is God vengeful, forgiving, or nonexistent?
GOD can be interpreted in many ways, but in every religion that i have learned about all of them belive GOD to be very forgiving and not vengeful. He only punishes evil and helps the Good. For whoever that doesnt belivve in god, well they wouldnt care if he is vengeful or forgiving because he doesnt exist for them.
Is non-belief proof of God's non-existence?
Non-belief is the result of either a lack of evidence or a lack of understanding of the evidence. So, if it is present in a person, it clearly indicates that one or the other is the cause of his resulting non-belief.Now, in this particular case, we are talking about an un-provable concept (a supernatural being can transcend physical laws of nature and as such it leaves no discernible trace of it’s actions) riddled with logical inconsistencies (it is supposed to have ‘’the likeness of man’’, yet is described as invisible and formless, infinite in scope and knowledge and power, which are all opposite of human traits; also, omnipotence and omniscience are paradoxes which cannot exist in a single entity, because ‘’an omniscient being would know things it cannot do, which if he can do anything, he knows not’’; being omniscient, and being the creator of everything, a god would KNOW what would be the outcome of every single one of his creations even before he created them, so all their ‘’mistakes’’ in life would be his fault in design…however, a God is frequently depicted as ‘’judging’’ other people, which implies he DOESN’T KNOW what they will do before their lives are over).So, when taken together, non-belief is a perfectly logical consequence of the definition of God, and the complete impossibility of evidence of such a conceptual being.And since we established that non-belief is proof of either lack of evidence or lack of understanding - the lack of evidence clearly takes the 1st prize here.So, in a nutshell - depending on your definition of a ‘’God’’!P.S. A deistic concept of a God is perfectly possible in the light of everything we know today about our world. However, it would still lack evidence for it’s existence, so a non-believer would have every right to continue down his path of non-belief until he reaches a point with some hard proof. However, the possibility will always remain open.
How do atheists know God doesn't exist instead of just believing that God doesn't exist?
Q: How are atheists so sure about their beliefs?You really don’t get it, do you? I will try once again to answer this as simply as possible.When somebody tells me that the Earth is flat, I don’t believe them. That’s because the Earth is not flat. They insist that it’s true because they are conspiracy theorists. But that doesn’t make them correct - only reality is correct.When somebody tells me that vaccines cause autism, I don’t believe them. That’s because vaccines do not cause autism. I can sympathize, especially if they have autistic family members who they think were victims. But that doesn’t make it true.When somebody tells me that God is watching me, I don’t believe them. That’s because it’s not true. I know that they really want to believe it because it makes them feel good and makes them valid members of their fold - accepted. But that has nothing at all to do with reality.I don’t have any beliefs about flat earth, anti-vaxxing, chem-trails, Bigfoot, or your religion, whatever it may be. In fact, if somebody brought absolute proof of Bigfoot, I would then become a believer. But, unless that happens, I don’t have any such belief.So far, nobody has ever found one bit of evidence for any of these. In fact there have been studies to prove that God exists, to show that prayer works, that miracles are not hoaxes, and so forth. Yet those studies always turn out to be disappointing to the faithful.So if you want to believe in Bigfoot, go right ahead. You can tell me that you know somebody whose cousin actually saw Bigfoot. You can show me the books and tabloids with out-of-focus Bigfoot sightings. But I’m not gullible enough to fall for it. The same thing goes for your religion.Yes, I know that you think that your religion is different. Flat Earthers think that their stance is valid and supported. Bigfoot adherents are likewise quite confident in their stance. They are indeed “sure of their beliefs” as you have accused me. But…TL;DR;It’s not that I’m so sure of my beliefs. It’s that I don’t believe in something unless there’s some kind of evidence.I’m just not that gullible.
Proof that God does not exist?
I read this in a book and I believe it is legitimate. What do you think?: --------------------------------------... “The Babel fish,” said The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quietly, “is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy not from its carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish. “Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching 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 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 vanished in a puff of logic. “‘Oh, that was easy,’ says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. “Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo’s kidneys, but that didn’t stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best- selling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God. “Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”