Buddha himself said he is not a god, just a pathway. We just need someone higher being to praise upon happiness and blame on misery.. Nobody has seen god, why do we believe on god so blindly. Everything we do present has effect on our future, it is NOT GOD who has written anyting in our destiny. It is not god who brings us bad luck/good luck.  Man makes his own destiny. I dont believe in god, but myself.. Dont tell me 'if you dont belive then have respect for those who do blah blah..' It is just that you cannot justify why u believe in god, why should I believe in god??

 

Well just wan't tell  people that .hundu religion is the soft religion .we respect all  animals .in North America .there is animal protecter organization .hundu loves all  animals .the people whoever do not believe god .those people always have problem .cow is the best animal .you can drink its milk to save peoples  life for that reason .hundu count caws as a mother .when you drink milk from mom you can't eat mom !

Sandhust Lahure,

 

There is nothing I do not agree with you. All of your takes are fact-based, logical and clearly intended for the greater good of mankind. I really appreciate them.

 

Re organized religion, I totally agree with your view. Political misuse of religion or religious misuse of politics have done terrible things and great disservice to mankind.

 

When I talked about “taming” of faith, this is what I was recognizing and was calling for squeezing the sphere of religion to keep limited to people’s individual spiritual matters.

 

Since the vast majority of people are of faith and the vast majority of them are harmless, normal and as positively contributing to the society as anybody else, I think it is enough to keep only the religious fanaticism and fundamentalism in check and let the rest enjoy their faith and choice.

 

Here is a data on Americans;

9 out of 10 Americans believe in God

http://www.gallup.com/poll/20437/Americans-Little-Doubt-God-Exists.aspx

 

I do not remember the figure, however, I have seen an enigmatic data that a significant number of American scientists have faith in God too !

 

One can wonder if they pray for miracles in their experiments. Turns out they don’t. I don’t remember where I read the explanation or if it was my own speculation and projection, however, there is a trick called ‘compartmentalization’. You put your ‘faith’ and ‘reason’ into two separate compartments and don’t let them not mix up.

 

However unusual, paradoxical or hypocritical it may sound, it exists and seems to be working fine.

 

Hence my tolerance to faith, to be honest.

 

In fact this notion of ‘compartmentalization’ is what I find as a sustainable solution to the religious problem.

 

A compartmentalized faith, by definition, has to know it’s limit and be tolerant and respectful to the logical system outside. And in return, the world of logic and reason will recognize the value the faithfuls put on the faith. Everybody happy.

 

जस्तो लाग्छ मलाई ।

 

Nepe

 

P.S. Regarding the merit of faith, I did not talk much or explicitly, because I am still learning about them. However, here is a small survey conducted by a psychologist and his student on American conservative and liberal Christians’ view which indirectly shows that faith is their psychological need.

 

Dan P. McAdams and Michelle Albaugha.

What if there were no God? Politically conservative and liberal Christians imagine their lives without faith

Journal of Research in Personality, August 2008

 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WM0-4T4HP25-2&_user=10&_coverDate=08%2F03%2F2008&_alid=825063457&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_cdi=6920&_sort=r&_docanchor=&view=c&_ct=1&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=0968bc407962dbe0735030725a95d81c

 

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i believe in paganism and satanism..i am germanic...thor be my god..

Hail Satan....In Conspiracy With Satan.\m/

Should we care what you belive or not?

 -  Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. - Unknown

Here's what I think about god, like it or not.

There's definitely something fishy going on in our planet. I mean, us, plants, animals. I don't believe we came to be merely by chance! Everything's there for a purpose. Fingers, thumbs, the folds in your eyelids, hair in your nose, the saliva on your tongue. EVERYTHING that u can think of has a reason to it.

Its as if someone (superior to us) made us to this detail. "hmmm lets give the lil guy 2 eyes instead of one so he can know what perception of depth is", and was a real genius of an engineer. So good, that we ourselves havent been able to create anything like HE created. Sure we have machines, computers that computer gigormous amounts of data within seconds, but they're crude and primitive compared to what He (or SHE or IT or THAT; whatever you wanna call) made.

So in my mind there is NO DOUBT that we're NOT the ONLY ones who EXIST. Offcourse I don't have the answer to "well gimme one example of NAME/PLACE/ANIMAL/THING that exists beyond us. I dont know, I haven't been there, nor seen it, nor felt it. I just KNOW its there from deductive/conclusive reasoning of the state of our existence.

Whether GOD in actuality is an alien or not, that I will leave to your own imaginations. But he exists, just like us, maybe not on the same plane, but there's no denying His work, his proof of existence. Albert Einstein didnt go and invent light and its physical properties, he merely studied it, and fell in love with the pureness and perfection of both theory and the actual thing. I'm sure he wondered: who on earth could have invented such a thing? Light: the basis of all life and information as we perceive it today.

But then here's where the story takes it turn (at least for me it does).

Brahma didnt create it. Nor did he create ANYTHING. Nor did Jesus, nor Allah or any of the other religious supreme beings claim to creator of the universe.

WE CREATED THEM. Yes sir, we did. We moulded our fantasies, curiosity, with an unquestionable fact of HIS exsistance. And then we played 'pretend'. "OH YOURE CUTTING YOUR NAILS AT 6 PM. AND YOURE ON THE DOORSTEP". "NARSIMA RAO IS COMING TO KILL YOU".

Why do we create such gods. Esp in Hinduism. Damn what 33 crore Gods.. and still counting? Why do we need God so much?? That we need to create 33 effing crores of him and pray. How does it work?

Create one today and start praying to him/her and if within a given time limit your prayers arent answered, create another one and start praying to that one? And all this while, you, benevolent creature of His creation, are decaying back into mouldy human clay.

But no! there's nothing you can do about it. Those GODS that they conjured up well before your time, you will still believe in, without understanding. Its unquestionable! BLASPHEMY! why do you think such a word even exists? So that NO ONE can question religion?

Tsk tsk.

Religion was invented by man as a means to support his logic. Logic was based on information. Information came from the stems of our senses. What we touched, ate, looked at, smelt. Our ego interprets the information from the senses and stores them into memory. By default, we are built in such a way, rather our minds are built in such a way, that it is always thirsty to fufil its purpose, parse and store information. Thence curiosity plagues all of humankind.

So inorder to stay sane, religion was invented. So that the masses wouldnt be worried if a Jupiter sized comet was going to pass in close proximity of the earth, praying in vain to a god that exists no where outside the realms of their own imagination.

So pityful are we :).

We give up our power to question logic so easily. So easily are we swayed by the pujaris and priests and pundits and padres.

"La hernus, tapai ko chora lai America ma gayera [successful] hunu ko lagi, malai bhagwan ko nam ma eti paisa chadaunus" is the unsaid motto of some holy men. Translate that into languages across the globe and apply it regionally, it can't fail.

[kramasa]

Everything comes at a price. We are as humans, love to endeavor into the unkown. I can't imagine a world without religion. On the other hand, I think the demerits of religion, clearly outrun the merits, as we have seen in contemporary socities. I read someone saying, "Faith is illogical". It's true that logic contradicts faith. But,  faith is yours to keep - you believe it or you don't. Logic and faith cannot co-exist at the same time or on the same page. People have their own understanding of faith and religion. It's the center line between good and evil, and as some might say, right and wrong. There are miracles, around us and studies prove them relevant.  The list goes on. It's like things at the quantum level - we see a different pattern on how things behave, at the subatomic level. The point I'm trying to emphasize is that, our sole reason here is profoundly uknown. We have books and ideas, which tells us about our past, but if future remained consistent what we thought to be, we wouldn't have religion and faith around.

It's ok to believe in god. It's ok not to believe in god. It's not ok to believe in lotto.

नास्तिक