IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer W on March 6, 2010 at 6:43am

I view the modern deity of God as a myth. If you want to make God something else; a universal creator, a concept, whatever.... He's the leader of the super hero team of myths: Zeus, Thor, Allah, Dionysis, Superman, Krishna, etc

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Permalink Reply by Carrot Hare on March 6, 2010 at 7:04am

I don't believe in anything remotely paranormal 100%!!! And proud of it

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Permalink Reply by visual@rchitect on March 6, 2010 at 8:38am

yes..... i'm sure there is no god. 200% sure.

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Permalink Reply by visual@rchitect on March 6, 2010 at 8:39am

but i do believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Bertrand Russel's orbiting teapot. Hail O Noodly one...... Bless us with thy noodley appendage. Yes, i am a devout Pastafarian!

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Permalink Reply by katalyzt on March 6, 2010 at 9:20am

One would have to describe what “god” they were talking about first. Meaning its attributes and whether it can influence nature. In other does it manifest in reality. ;O)

Katalyzt

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Permalink Reply by Michael on March 7, 2010 at 2:04pm

I put god on the same level as the Tooth Fairy abd the Boogyman. Just as any sensible person is 100% certain that the Tooth Fairy does not exist, so I am 100% certain that god does not exist.

I laugh at anyone who tries to leave the door open for god with that "we can never be 100% sure of anything" routine, because they are simultaneously admitting that they give some credence to the Tooth Fairy, the Boogyman, Sagan's dragon in the garage and Russell's teapot! I mean, how silly is that?

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Permalink Reply by Marc Green on March 8, 2010 at 12:02am

Shame on you! There are countless scientific researchers that have put their "faith" in their science and scientific systems which have killed people. The very facts brought out by the Rogers Commission on the 7 deaths of the Challenger crew members should open your eyes to the infallability of humans and human groups pertaining to systemic knowledge and application.

In light of this and the very idea there could be a planet in a solar system in a galaxy extemely far away from here that actually does have something similar to a "tooth fairy" and/or a "Boogyman", not to mention a Sagan-type Dragon or a yet "un-recognisable to Earthlings" teapot circiling in actual orbit around that planet; does in no way permit you the egregious stance of extrapolating an Earthlike perception in simile upon the rest of the universe(s).

I'm not saying your wrong. But I'm also not saying you're correct. If you and I and a holy-roller were in a spaceship alone together on a trip to said planet, I'd be almost as hard-pressed to agree with your denials as much as I'd be hard-pressed to agree with the Bible-thumpers assertions. This simply for the fact that your assertions would appear to me as closed-minded as the other traveler since we're all about to land on a foreign planet.

Having said that: I do not believe in a God or Gods. But I also don't believe that your comparison of the above items is in any way comparable to the existence or non-existence of such extremely powerful entities. The likelihood of a God existing (in ultimate control of the Universe(s)) is so much more exponentially non-comparable to the existence of a fantasy-dragon living in Carl Sagan's garage, I don't know where to begin - not to mention comparing such powerful beings to a teapot floating in space, a scary monster holed-up in a child's closet or a mutant creature with a humanoid tooth-like fetish.

All I would ask is that we do more than try to compare apples to oranges. Because right now... I'm laughing at you. [And it's only because I need to laugh so that I don't cry over your lack of reason and the apparent bull-headedness of NOT only putting God(s) aside for clarity but your refusal to be open-minded to the possibilities of some weird crap we might just find out about.

Can't You See? It's only you, me and this insane guy that's about to land on this new planet and none of us has a clue what we'll find. LOL

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Permalink Reply by Gary Burk on March 14, 2010 at 11:23am

There you go! I know for certain that there is a Tooth Fairy. In fact, I know the Tooth Fairy personally. You see, it just so happens that the Tooth Fairy is my dad! As a young child, having received several quarters ($0.25) in the past in exchange for lost teeth, I managed to awaken one night just enough to catch the Tooth Fairy making the trade. Just imagine my surprise when I realized my dad had another job at night while I slept. He must have never slept!

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Kaufman on March 7, 2010 at 2:32pm

Is everybody 100% there is no athena? What about thor?

How about whether or not there is a working dishwasher at my father-in-laws house? What does it matter. The only thing that can possibly even slightly affect any of you is that dishwasher...should it exist. And I doubt you are too worried about that.

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Permalink Reply by John B Hodges on March 7, 2010 at 3:19pm

I like the reply that was given by someone in an article in American Atheists magazine a few years ago.

There have been many gods proposed, over the centuries, by many assorted religions and "teachers". Some were specific enough to be testable; the classical Greek pantheon were supposed to live in a palace on top of Mount Olympus. We can say with 100% confidence that there is no such palace, and no gods living there. Some religions describe their gods in ways that are self-contradictory; for example, being both omniscient and omnipotent at the same time. On the other hand, many religions describe their god or gods in ways that make them untestable, undetectable by any objective test. The writer in AA magazine proposed that logically we should be "strong atheists" with regard to all testable gods and "agnostic atheists", the 99.999% sure kind, with respect to all untestable gods.

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Permalink Reply by klypp on March 7, 2010 at 4:36pm

Sure God exists! Or, eh... rather he kind of did...

He came around yesterday doing that burning bush trick while I was watering my roses. Of course I took advantage of the situation and put him out with a well directed splash of water.
He's looking kind of burnt and rather miserable now... But hey, it's God! And I'm planning to sell him to a museum and maybe donate some money to our good cause.

Any idea of how much money I could ask for him?

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Permalink Reply by Marc Green on March 13, 2010 at 9:24pm

LOL
That reminds me of what George Carlin once said: "I've found him! I have Jesus... in my trunk."

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