Do you believe in God?
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zoocurious02
Zooville Settler
Yes, but not in a biblical sense. No worship, prayer, divine will. Just the forces of the universe
HungryBear
Tourist
I’d say that I don’t believe in God (with a capital G) but I am spiritual for sure.
Blacksoul
Citizen of Zooville
“Religion has actually convinced people that there's God, an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!
But He loves you. He loves you, and he needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, but somehow he just can't handle money! Religion takes in billions and billions of dollars; they pay no taxes, and somehow they always need money. You talk about a good f! ”§# story”
― George Carlin
But He loves you. He loves you, and he needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, but somehow he just can't handle money! Religion takes in billions and billions of dollars; they pay no taxes, and somehow they always need money. You talk about a good f! ”§# story”
― George Carlin
ilinalta95
Tourist
I was raised in a Catholic home, I considered myself Catholic up until I was about 22. I never fully accepted that God created us however. My mind was always open to the possibility of biogenesis, panspermia or some other scientific explanation for the origin of life.
Short answer: even when I was a practicing Catholic, I never really believed in God.
Short answer: even when I was a practicing Catholic, I never really believed in God.
AbbieMorniningstar
Lurker
Yes but i serve The Morrigan
KnotMePlease212
Tourist
I'm not in a rush to find out 
CetaceanLover23
Esteemed Citizen of ZV
I do and frequently listen to worship music (Brandon Lake, Red Rocks Worship, Phil Wickham, Elevation Worship, etc), but do not believe in Devine intervention at all. I do not believe God plays any role in the outcomes of our lives whatsoever. Free will exists.
What do you mean by spiritual?
The God of the Bible. All the other ones have their proper names, but that one they call "The" god, and they capitalize the "G".
What is your sense of it, or how does it differ from the traditional?
How's that, were you forced to go through the motions, more or less?
dooggylover69
Tourist
Nope.
Interesting. If God plays no role in the outcomes of our lives, what does he do? If he did create the universe and everything else, or even living things he has intervened in the outcomes of our lives - existence, for sure. No?
CetaceanLover23
Esteemed Citizen of ZV
I do not believe God created the universe. I do believe there is a God though.
Nyvi
Tourist
Well yes and I believed everything I was supposed to, or at least tried really hard. I was surrounded by it in all parts of my life so I never got an outside perspective
Oh, and if you stepped out of line you were "corrected" immediately.
Sorry about that. I hope you're OK now.
BrotatoChip
Citizen of Zooville
I don't think God as defined by any religion that I've found, I think it's arrogant to think anyone understands something like that. Even if there were something as rigid as a single God, understanding what it wants, needs, does, etc would be seemingly impossible. I mean people can't even agree on what the Bible means, if anything, now add all religions to that and it seems silly to even pretend there's an agreed upon answer or possibility of one.
I think I value "good" but that definition of "good" is probably largely formed by religious beliefs taken on through some church and then generally cultural osmosis, so it's probably somehow tainted and imperfect.
God may be consciousness I suppose, and I worship via self reflection and trying not to waste my consciousness by falling victim to my own biases that want me to contort reality solely to my benefit, thereby wasting my consciousness. If I disrespect the perception of reality offered by consciousness by picking and choosing what is real on my own, that seems sacrilegious. If that makes sense. It barely does to me so I doubt it, lol. Not an easy question.
I think I value "good" but that definition of "good" is probably largely formed by religious beliefs taken on through some church and then generally cultural osmosis, so it's probably somehow tainted and imperfect.
God may be consciousness I suppose, and I worship via self reflection and trying not to waste my consciousness by falling victim to my own biases that want me to contort reality solely to my benefit, thereby wasting my consciousness. If I disrespect the perception of reality offered by consciousness by picking and choosing what is real on my own, that seems sacrilegious. If that makes sense. It barely does to me so I doubt it, lol. Not an easy question.