Do you believe there is a god?

Yes, I believe.

No, I don't believe there is. I believe the notion was invented when humans first started farming. Farming led to much bigger civilisations than hunter-gatherers could muster and, for the first time, led to civilisations which could produce more food than they needed (especially in fertile areas like river deltas).

Having more than you need allows you certain luxuries (like people who don't farm for all their food themselves but perform services for the civilisation in return for food). It allows for things like armies, entertainers, priests (who have the ear of a mythical entity and can use their influence to improve crop growth). In actuality, the priests were early scientists who learned things about irrigation, crop rotation, etc. and so their learning is what "blessed" the crops.

In time there was a schism and pure science was written and shared (as opposed to being used as a con-trick to avoid work). Science and religion separated and religion, realising the danger of science, sought to suppress it. Science was seen as a challenge to church authority because it disproves their assertions (which have no basis in fact). Scientists like Galileo were convicted of heresy and prevented from ever leaving their house again. Science has rarely imprisoned people for having a difference of opinion.

Many forms of misleading guff are tolerated in society today (cold readers, clairvoyants, those passing on messages from the dead). It's a curious element of human nature that belief isn't about what is true but what people want to be true.

I believe if you believe then God exists and if you don't believe then God doesn't exist.

Man Made God In His Own Image.

I don't care what other people choose to believe but I believe there has to be at least some sort of creator because there is WAY too much order in the universe for us to be just some cosmic fluke.

If the thousands of past human-invented gods were not real, what are the chances the Christian/Jewish/Islamic gods are real? I also don't believe in them simply because they are nothing more than conjectures conjured up by desert nomads in a pre-scientific age where superstition reigned supreme.

There's one simply way for me to accept gods are real, that is if they show themselves to me and did some 'miracles' like make the sun vanish at will. If you're going to claim you had sex with Cindy Crawford, I'm going to demand the sex tape or at least word from her that it's true.

This is why anyone who believes in god right now is proving that they are gullible idiots who'll believe anything. If I tell you I have a magic book sent to me by the god of the universe and you believe it, you're simply a dumbass, no other way to say it.

No, I don't. As for what I believe, depends what we're talking about, really:P. In terms of religion and God and all that, I think when you're dead, that's all. Nothing happens, your "soul" doesn't go to a hell or heaven or some such thing. I don't like my beliefs.

Yes, I believe. To be more precise I believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that He died on a cross for our sins. I call myself a christian but I don't follow any church because I have not find one that 'fits' my believes of God. I believe that there is no such thing as hell (fire, eternal sufferings) and I believe that God is good.

I believe that there is no evidence definitively proving the existence of a god. Based on that, I don't believe there is any point dedicating any part of my life to worshipping, celebrating, sacrificing for or appeasing a god or gods.

I am entirely open to being proved wrong.

yes i do. i don't understand how people can possibly believe that everything you see around you just happened randomly and then a human race evolved from something when there is no evidence of a transition, and then took over the entire world in a matter of a few hundred years, when "apparently" it's been around for billions. and created everything you see today. and the complexities, uniqueness, and perfectness of certain animals' anatomy/biology.
if you don't believe in a God, then you must give huge kudos to the man who created the biggest conspiracy theory man has ever known and so widely believed without a shadow of a doubt.

Idiocy you all

Nope, sorry I believe in Science, and there is no evidence there to support their claims

NOPE. LOL. There are way too many loopholes with the idea of an existing GOD. and their beliefs.... Tbh, they constantly contradict each other and there is no evidence to prove their existence. ok Im agnostic. done. xD I think it is more like an "ideology"... MAYBE. People believe and unite to strengthen themselves based on the beliefs of that particular religion. I wont say it is a bad thing to believe that there is a GOD. but nope i just cant believe in god when there is no proof other than a bunch of believers who insist that it exists. no evidence at all.

I believe anything is possible till proven otherwise. The world is full of possibilities. You can not say something is not possible since you can not see it. Stuff that was once believed fiction in movies is now reality. So whats to say ghosts and martians are not possible? Not saying that I will say these are facts but not a lot that can disprove it. I also would love for these things to really exist. That would be very interesting. I would never play with witchcraft just to be on the safe side. Always wished I would get bit by a bat or a wolf or possibly turned out to be born a wizard but that never happened. Just a simple little human. What a boring exsistance we are doomed to live in.

God is merely a word for us to measure, attempt to understand and idolise something greater than us, to give our species, guidelines, meaning, spirituality, hope and afterlife. God may not be what we view it. Such is the word time, it is a measurement, there is no surefire way to prove time exists as we define it. To me, the religion that follows a GOD takes away our freedom, by giving us yet more rules to follow, in a society full of rules.

I am disapointed children, that you dont have faith in me

I think god is looked at too one sided these days. People think you either are christian or atheist. I never know what to say when people ask me, because I really don't believe that there is one single man in the sky that tells everyone what to do, and controls everything, because that seems sexist and stupid to me. I also don't believe in the bible, becuase I think that is a human creation. I do, however, believe in life after death. I know there is life after death, just because of things that have happened to me in my life, and my mother's experiences as well. It may not be some kind of perfect heaven, but I believe that we go somewhere when we die, perhaps a second stage of life.

I am not by any means religious, but I am definitely spiritual.

But what some people need to understand is that no one is one hundred percent positive about God.

We have faith, or lack there of.

Just keep an open mind. :)

I think self belief is the most important belief there is.

Those trying to use logic to answer the question are wasting their time. Logicians tell us that it comes down to that it's probably not true that God does not exist. That being said, I believe He does exist in the form of the universal consciousness. It's not a coincidence that every culture worships God(s), It's because people experience ther connection to that consciousness. Btw, farming had nothing to do with it, because indigenous tribes worship a deity.

I hold beliefs similar to the religion of Deism. I'll copy & paste a little of the description...

"Critical elements of deist thought include:

Rejection of all religions based on books that claim to contain the revealed word of God.
Rejection of all religious dogma and demagogy.
Rejection of reports of miracles, prophecies and religious "mysteries".

Constructive elements of deist thought include:

God exists, created and governs the universe.
God gave humans the ability to reason."

As to my thoughts on the afterlife - I believe there is one, but only those pure of heart are welcomed into it. :)

I want to believe that there is no afterlife. That's my biggest issue of "faith". I have a hard time seeing death as anything but the end. I also have a hard time believing that God would hate anyone and that God's version of justice is as cruel as the Bible likes to depict, all factors of science and of divine providence considered. If there is a God, we have indeed forced our human qualities onto our perception of God in the same way that we force them onto animals and objects.

I also have a hard time believing that the Bible is 100% literal. I understand that a lot of the events in the Bible have been and are being proven archeologically (fuck spelling), but I have a hard time believing that a being like Jesus would condone the hatred of others after his teachings made it clear that we are to love and tolerate each other. My conflicts with faith do not keep me from practicing it. In the end, if there is a judgement day, I believe I'll be judged more by what I do and how I treat others than by what I believe about the Bible.

Do I believe there is a God? I have faith in the Judeo-Christian God. At the very least, I believe that there is a universal intelligence and a natural law of reality that is transcending the limitations of human perception. Like I said, I have conflicts with my faith, but I have conflicts with many things in life as I have a very narrow view of how things should and shouldn't be regarding what makes sense to me.

Can I prove any of it? No. My faith is a very personal thing to me, I feel that faith is a very personal thing. That's why I'm not shoving faith up anyone's ass. I doubt I would if I could prove it. I just don't have the will to, nor do I care enough to.

God or God's were just ancient astronauts pro traded as Gods.

I believe there is an overall intelligence, etc....but it is not what we are inculturated to believe...it is as much evil as good...as much pain as pleasure...as much yin as yang...etc..it can only be understood by a clear look at what really is...not what we wish there to be...but what actually is..

LOL no of course not.