No.
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I don’t see any evidence for evolution creating new species. None
Not at all, nor anything supernatural. I was raised evangelical and it really soured me on religion period, and I’m still trying to unlearn many of the harmful teachings. Luckily my SO was of the same mind so I’m eternally grateful for it; that kind of thing can destroy a relationship.
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I went through an existential crisis in my 20s because I was ‘told’ I needed to be religious but never was. I read a lot of theological and philosophical texts and came to a conclusion similar to yours, if there’s a ‘God’, then they’re cruel. I oddly get Pantheism more than Monotheism, because at least it justifies that there’s ‘good’ and ‘bad’ deities but a lot of them are based on interpretations of phenomena that can now be explained by science.
I took much more to philosophy. I know what I believe is right and wrong morally, and science explains (almost) everything. If there’s a ‘God’-like figure, they can suck my nut sack because I believe they are at best indifferent, at worst, evil.
And of all the bad things, I find it quite disconcerting how many bad things organized religious have and continue to do. As someone raised Catholic, the organization leading it has, to say the least, a troubled history. This happens unopposed by an all-knowing, all-powerful being under the excuse of free will?
So, Egyptian god of the Apocalypse. I got two of them and agree completely. Very sleepy but still demanding.
Yes. I think. It’s becoming more difficult.
No
Do you believe in Santa?
Last year my youngest was in kindergarten around the time of St. Patrick’s Day here in the U.S. At some point they went out to recess and came back in to find little chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil on their desks. I picked him up after school and as we were driving away I asked how school was. He told me that he thinks leprechauns might be real. I asked what made him think they might be and he gave me the “we left class and when we came back there was chocolate on our desks” answer. I asked him if something else could have happened, like a teacher leaving them, and he said no, because the door is locked when they leave. I told him “maybe it was a rainbow unicorn who left the chocolate.” His response was very dismissive. He said “no Dad, that’s impossible because rainbow unicorns don’t exist.” He’s a sharp kid but he’s not quite at the logic stage. :)
leprechauns
Kids brains are funny. I used my superior child logical skills to proof to my parents why santa is not real, I was so proud… And a few years later I had an absolute psychological meltdown crisis after realizing that the Easter bunny isn’t real 🥲
I mean, who else is bringing me presents on Christmas?
The tooth fairy?
No, and this shouldn’t matter to you or anyone else.
Oh shush.
In any specific god? no. What I believe is that we don’t know and will never know anything beyond our own existence. We don’t know what we are, in the grand scheme of things (or if there’s a grand scheme at all). We don’t even know if we actually exist.
I just live my life to the best of my abilities and shrug off all that “beyond my existence” stuff as pointless. If I tried to think about it, I don’t believe I would ever come anywhere close to a real answer anyway.
God? What a preposterous idea! I believe in aliens, Lister!
I believe in the possibility of a creator, be it a single omniscient/omnipresent/omnipowerful/etc being or some natural process we do not understand.
But do I have enough evidence to swear fealty to any particular thing that might occupy this role? Fuck no.
I would submit that any being that desires worship is not worthy of it.
Not only desires, but demands it and threatens eternal torture if you don’t give it to them. An important distinction.
True, desiring it alone is bad enough, but demanding it on the threat of eternal torment is about as evil as you can get.
Yes, kind of. I believe there has to be more than can be scientifically proven because otherwise there really isnt much point in this world. I also think there has to be some kind of soul, how else could you be aware of your own mind? Though I wonder if its internal or external and just connected to your body in some nebulous way.
But what I definitely dont believe is that church or anyone who gains material benefit from religion has any connection to god. And what comes to bible, its good starting point and has many good core ideas. Its also a bit corrupted by greedy and powerhungry people so it shouldnt be relied upon if you can’t filter it. Other religions likely also have good ideas in their holy texts though they are likely harder to understand and relate to due to cultural differences.
Ones relationship with god is extremely personal and no one can’t order you about with it.
Why does there need to be a point to the world? Why can’t things simply exist?
What is the purpose of a quasar? Why does a muon exist? I don’t think those questions need to have an answer, they’re just a product of “laws” of physics being what they are.
It’s the same for everything here: what is our purpose? It’s to live life and find happiness, to create beings that also share the capacity to live and to have them continue the system as well, or not. Why? There is no why, you either choose to or not as it is entirely up to you do decide your own purpose, if any at all. There doesn’t need to be purpose, having one simply helps guide us through life in one possible trajectory.
It may seem somewhat isolated and pointless, but we create the meaning in our lives. Our families and friends exist with or without the idea of a god. There doesn’t need to be a point to it all that is beyond our own enjoyment of any given experience.
As for the soul, our brains are capable of reflecting on our actions, it’s an incredibly useful tool for adaptation and I believe that is the nature of our consciousness. It’s the recognition of “previous” sensory input that we process. It seems like a soul, or something “outside” of the self, but it’s just a facet of our brains ability to “watch” our own actions and to review external input received.
Well, its not that I actually strongly believe anything. I’m just hoping there is something after death. It also makes it a little easier to live here since I dont think I can do anything meaningful in this life and considering how it all will go to shit anyway due to humanity just not bothering to do enough to stop climate breakdown.
I guess I just really dislike pointless faffing about.
