Help me on my religion project by awnsering 4 quesions.

[Daedalus]

1. Does God exist? why or why not?
I frankly don't care. If there is a God, he's obviously not a very consciously integral part of my life, so I really don't care to pursue someone who has no evidence backing them. If God wants faith, he could present himself to us. I'm a secular humanist. The same goes with solipsism or the flying spaghetti monster - they MIGHT be there, but it doesn't concern me. What DOES get me is when people believe that faith is an acceptable way to lead a nation (or world).
2. What is faith?
Trust in something unproven or uncertain.
3. What has led you to believe or to doubt? Why?
Everything I mentioned above, plus the contradictions in God's supposed powers and also the Bible.
4. What makes your life meaningful/ worthwhile?
Advancing the human race, and spreading happiness to everyone I know.

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[TheArmyGuy]

no, not like that. his answers were irrelivent to the questions.

Uh no, you're either reading it wrong or interpreting it wrong on purpose. His answers are perfectly valid opinions, and even half of them are facts.

[kevin 51l]

1. Does God exist? why or why not?
2. What is faith?
3. What has led you to believe or to doubt? Why?
4. What makes your life meaningful/ worthwhile?

1. no, because it has something to do with my belief of atoms and stuff and i can't explain it completely
2. the ability to dismiss life for hope
3. logic, the internet, i can't stand going to church. law of conservation of matter, science is just more fun
4. music, friends, math

i'm 15 but i turn 16 in a week so you pick which one you want

[Katadeus]

I'd love to know why the hell the universe exists anyhow
The more I think about it the more it annoys me
We exist within a paradox.

Also sorry for not mentioning in my post I'm 16

[TheArmyGuy]

I'd love to know why the hell the universe exists anyhow
The more I think about it the more it annoys me
We exist within a paradox.

Also sorry for not mentioning in my post I'm 16

Plot twist: In the future, humans invent time travel and discover the universe is a paradox and everyone will die. To stop the paradox, they go back to the time of the supposed big bang and create it themselves. While they're at it, they make some silly stone structures and granite blocks a couple billion years later on earth to troll future humans, and go back to the future.

[Headcrab Zombie]

You picked a website with some pretty strong bias for atheism.

A lot of online communities, especially those with a high percentage of younger people, have a bias towards atheism.
And judging off the little information in the op, I think the project is about people's views towards religion and reason for believing or not believing, rather than sampling percentage of religions



I'll post my responses for this once I get home

[Dequire]

If God is omnipotent and created everything, it wouldn't be irrational to believe that he's unaffected by (and probably created) time. Meaning God had no beginning and therefore doesn't need any sort of origin.
What religion do you believe in? Because that's not what the Bible says
If that was true then conversion to Christianity would be useless because you have already committed an unforgivable sin. That's silly
What
Who is saying these things, I've never heard anybody say this before in my life

Biggots, idiots and the frequenters of the West Baptist Buero, good sir. I'm afraid some people are just that ignorant.

[dkamm65]

I frankly don't care. If there is a God, he's obviously not a very consciously integral part of my life, so I really don't care to pursue someone who has no evidence backing them. If God wants faith, he could present himself to us.

That would be called an Apatheist. It's a "disinclination to care all that much about one's own religion and even a stronger disinclination to care about other people's."

[Filipe]

I feel like just answering the first question

1. Does God exist? why or why not?

Some people believes it exist, some don't, I personally believe god exists, and I respect people who don't, but in my opinion, the stupidest thing is when someone tries so hard to say that god is not real, no one can really tell if god is not real, or when someone is extreme for god and tries to convert atheists, we get it that you don't believe in god or believe in god and tries to convert everybody, but you should atleast respect people who believes or not.

[Headcrab Zombie]

That would be called an Apatheist.

There's so many different terms that people have created, it's silly.



Anyways my answers:

Age: 21, atheist

1. Depends on your definition of 'God'
If you mean a God as defined in the Christian bible, with every quality listed, and having performed every act claimed, then I can say I am entirely sure this god does not exist. If you mean in an extremely generic sense, perhaps a deistic god who simply created the universe then stepped back, there is no reason for his existence or nonexistence to be known, and no reason for said god to care. There isn't any evidence to justify a belief.

2. To me, faith is the belief in something, always with a lack of supporting evidence, and usually in the presence of contradicting evidence. It's belief in something because you want it to be true. A god always watching over you, like a strong father figure, protecting you, and giving you something to look for after death, really is a nice thing to want to believe to be true.

3. It's just a bunch of things I've discovered through my life. Very general things that are often cited, like this biblical claim being contradicted by science backed up by evidence,  that biblical claim just being entirely silly, down to specific things like "how could a save god hate someone for having a quality that he created them to have?"

4. All sorts of things in life that are there to be experienced

[JitankIsFag]

1. Does God exist? why or why not? - yes, because if there was no god then we couldnt have been here. I don't think any other explination makes sense
2. What is faith? - faith is having hope in something.
3. What has led you to believe or to doubt? Why? - i believe that there is a god because something had to have created us and if that god created monkies and they evolved into people then i guess that's what happened but you never know.
4. What makes your life meaningful/ worthwhile? - my woman

these are my beliefs and i have freedom of belief

I'm sorry but this is an invalid argument. Just the first question answers is completely conservatively answered and implied. Unless this was sarcasm, i cannot respect this as a valid answer.

[SeventhSandwich]

1. Does God exist? why or why not?
2. What is faith?
3. What has led you to believe or to doubt? Why?
4. What makes your life meaningful/ worthwhile?

1. You cannot prove or even substantiate the existence of God or any god, so the prudent assumption is that there is no god. See: unfalsifiable hypotheses

2. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faith I'd give you some subjective definition pulled from my ass, but we both know that's totally pointless.

3. My standard for evidence is that there's no point in explaining empirical concepts like evolution or the formation of the Earth using unscientific explanations found in religions. Our society has known for centuries that observations are demonstrably more effective at leading to important discoveries and innovations than lore.

4. I want to live forever.

[Headcrab Zombie]

I'd give you some subjective definition pulled from my ass, but we both know that's totally pointless.

I think that's what he wants; if he wanted an objective definition he could have used a dictionary like you did

[SeventhSandwich]

I think that's what he wants; if he wanted an objective definition he could have used a dictionary like you did

The operative phrase here is 'pulled out of my ass'. All definitions are subjective.

[dkamm65]

There's so many different terms that people have created, it's silly.

What's silly is having a word for somebody that doesn't believe in something in the first place. See: "nongolfers"