Do you Believe in God ?
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31-35, F
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TinyViolins · 31-35, M
I do not. When people refer to the 'capital G' God, it's usually referring to the god of the Abrahamic religions, but he is far from the only one. Throughout history and culture, there have been a few thousand gods out there that have uniquely distinct attributed traits to indicate they're a differentiated enough deity. Some religious apologists try to make a case that they're all extensions or interpretations of the Abrahamic god, but there's really no substantial evidence of that.
And as our scientific knowledge of ourselves, our world, and our universe grows and becomes more nuanced, there's just not enough room for the gods of old to hold relevance in our understanding of life. Nowadays, the most scientifically literate religious worshippers have modified the concept of god to explain the gaps in our knowledge rather than admitting we don't know the answers yet. Given that the idea of god has been modified so much over the years with our growing body of research, it makes it very dubious that a god exists in the first place. There seems to be a strong case that god is simply a means of ideologically glossing over the research by retroactively hamfisting his role into the currently untested aspects of our scientific acumen.
God is more a means of mitigating uncertainty rather than an actual interactive force that influences the things we see and experience, but even if he was, it just leads to far more questions than answers as there's no explanation of how or why those mechanisms exist. It just gets glibly brushed aside under the 'mysterious ways' doctrine.
And as our scientific knowledge of ourselves, our world, and our universe grows and becomes more nuanced, there's just not enough room for the gods of old to hold relevance in our understanding of life. Nowadays, the most scientifically literate religious worshippers have modified the concept of god to explain the gaps in our knowledge rather than admitting we don't know the answers yet. Given that the idea of god has been modified so much over the years with our growing body of research, it makes it very dubious that a god exists in the first place. There seems to be a strong case that god is simply a means of ideologically glossing over the research by retroactively hamfisting his role into the currently untested aspects of our scientific acumen.
God is more a means of mitigating uncertainty rather than an actual interactive force that influences the things we see and experience, but even if he was, it just leads to far more questions than answers as there's no explanation of how or why those mechanisms exist. It just gets glibly brushed aside under the 'mysterious ways' doctrine.