Yes, and I have peace in my life because I have this relationship.
I have not since I was 14. I don’t completely dismiss the possibility of one but I think it is incredibly unlikely.
But if you believe in one, have at it. As long as you are not forcing me or others to be involved, I don’t care.
I don’t think so in the cure of god as a single being.
I think there’s possibly some phenomenon maybe linked to quantum entanglement where everything in the universe is more linked than we realise and there’s some sort of awareness in that.
The pagan belief of nature as a God is probably the closest to something I’d agree with rather than modern depictions of god.
I believe in me. You are all being perceived by me. And anything I cannot perceive is not in the realm of existence.
Nope.
I’ve been raised as a Christian, but always found it weird that there was zero proof and all based on a book. It seems like the longest running book club ever. I’m still going to church regularly, mainly because I enjoy the company and the church we’re going to promotes a good lifestyle: Take care of each other, respect other’s people’s choices, and be kind.
I really despise the news where people are banning e.g. aborting / LGBTQ /queer in the name of Christianity. Just respect what other people do!
And I think there are things we can’t explain. I recently read “After” written by a doctor who has spent decades to research NDE’s and there are many things he can’t explain, and scientists still don’t know what exactly the conscience is.
you don’t need proof when you have ✨faith✨
From the things I’ve seen in my lifetime I can only assume there’s no God, and if there is a God then he’s not worth worshipping for letting the amount of suffering exist as there is in the world today.
Seconded.
Absolutely not
I dont believe in anything like gods, ghosts, magic etc
No. I usually call myself an agnostic atheist and follow it up with this thought: say humanity some day, somehow sends a man or a robot to explore a black hole and at the very bottom of that black hole there is an old door with a doorbell. We ring the doorbell and soon after an old man opens the door and says: “oh, there you are. I’m God, come on in”. I think it would be kind of arrogant to just dismiss him immediately and say “no you’re not! God doesn’t exist!” That’s why I’m not just a hardcore atheist.
I’m an agnostic theist, I believe in the possibility of god(s) or god-like entities.
There is a quote I resonate with by Marcus Aurelius:
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.
Wow, I had no idea that there was a quote out there that aligns so well with my beliefs. I grew up in a semi religious household but was never forced to go to church. My parents encouraged me to go, not only to theirs but even go with friends that were different religions.
After going to various churches through some really vulnerable times I still don’t subscribe to any religion, but I also can’t bring myself to go full atheist.
Too bad that quote is way too long for a tattoo 🤣
It’s a bit wordier (well, most people are wordier than the stoics lol) but Socrates had the right idea too I think:
Let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good, for one of two things: - either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another.
Now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by the sight of dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain. For if a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed even by dreams, and were to compare with this the other days and nights of his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than this one, I think that any man, I will not say a private man, but even the great king, will not find many such days or nights, when compared with the others. Now if death is like this, I say that to die is gain; for eternity is then only a single night. But if death is the journey to another place, and there, as men say, all the dead are, what good, O my friends and judges, can be greater than this?
If indeed when the pilgrim arrives in the world below, he is delivered from the professors of justice in this world, and finds the true judges who are said to give judgment there, Minos and Rhadamanthus and Aeacus and Triptolemus, and other sons of God who were righteous in their own life, that pilgrimage will be worth making. What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer? Nay, if this be true, let me die again and again. I, too, shall have a wonderful interest in a place where I can converse with Palamedes, and Ajax the son of Telamon, and other heroes of old, who have suffered death through an unjust judgment; and there will be no small pleasure, as I think, in comparing my own sufferings with theirs. Above all, I shall be able to continue my search into true and false knowledge; as in this world, so also in that; I shall find out who is wise, and who pretends to be wise, and is not.
What would not a man give, O judges, to be able to examine the leader of the great Trojan expedition; or Odysseus or Sisyphus, or numberless others, men and women too! What infinite delight would there be in conversing with them and asking them questions! For in that world they do not put a man to death for this; certainly not. For besides being happier in that world than in this, they will be immortal, if what is said is true.
Exactly! I haven’t seen any proof of a god(s) but I’m willing to keep an open mind. At the end of the day if I live life trying to do well, I should be good.
That quote resonates a lot with me as well.
Yeah, I used to be an atheist but I converted to Catholicism after a bad trip on shrooms
No and I’m glad I don’t, seeing all the ignorance of the world caused by religion. But I still respect people’s beliefs (to a degree) like I do with my best friend. He’s like a brother to me and he’s devout. As long as people don’t shove their beliefs into me or talk religious nonsense to me, I’m chill.
I’m an atheist, I don’t believe in the existence of any god or divine figure, nor in ghosts, spirits, etc.
No, but I don’t want to rule it out completely. I there is, it’s probably nothing like anyone has every thought about. There’s a lot about the universe we don’t know. I think it’s a bit foolish to claim for certain things when we know so little about the universe. One day, it might be possible to measure the soul with scientific equipment, and future people may look back on us and think, “Wow, they actually believed they were only organic, not even realizing they have a quantum soul,” the same way we look back at people who thought the earth was the center of the universe.
The world is a complicated place, and what we say now may look foolish or ahead of its time 100 years from now.
Fuck no.
