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Do you believe in God?
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I don't believe there's any evidence to suggest the supernatural exists, including god or gods. Based on this information, I cannot reasonably believe in the existence of god. So no, sort of.
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Originally Posted by pan6467
If no, what is your belief?
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I understand that the world can probably be explained through science. It doesn't really have any necessary connection to god except that apparently being a rationalist also makes me an atheist, which is an exclusionary term for those who do not believe in god.
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Are you fervent in your belief?
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It's not a belief, and I'm not fervent in it. I'm fervent in adapting my understanding of the universe to match whatever information I have. If I get positive evidence that god exists, bam I believe in the existence of god. It's highly unlikely that would happen because most of the information presented about god runs contrary to our current scientific understanding of the universe.
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Now you can claim Scientific belief that there is no God, personal belief, statistically.... anyway you desire to say there is no God. But MY BELIEF is that if you are fervent, if you are so wrapped up in being an Atheist and that you scoff others beliefs or are so closed minded that you believe your belief to be the "only true belief". Then you are basically, for all intents and purposes no different than 99% of all other religions and religious zealots out there. It's just YOU choose to say you do not believe in anything.... but a belief in nothing is still a belief in something.
So for me, in my belief.... you choosing to say "there is no God" and being adamant to which so that no prayer can be in school, even if the school is willing to cover all major forms of spirituality, even the lack of, then you are just as pushing of your beliefs as the Christian Right, the extremist Muslim, etc. I say this because you are still pushing a spiritual belief, whether you accept it is a belief or not.
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There's no belief about it except believing what my senses deliver to my brain.