I'm glad the majority believes in God.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Sarbeck on January 31, 2012 at 1:13am

"...but others need to believe or society will collapse. Crazy huh?"

Not at all crazy, A3Kr0n.

A sociologist years ago opened my naive eyes when he told me that religions serve governments as alternate police forces.

When I started reading political history, I saw an explanation: "The first purpose of government is to make large numbers of people governable."

Some believers try to frighten doubters with, "Without God, everything is allowed."

I reply, "Oh, the sheriff no longer has keys to the jail?"

Permalink Reply by Roy on January 31, 2012 at 7:02am

It's been a long struggle for me to face the fact that I am an atheist, since 1975.  One time I was working in a factory and I was giving a theist a rough time explaining his beliefs and he asked me, "If you don't believe in god, why aren't you out there robbing and killing people?".  I just replied, "If belief in god is the only thing keeping you from doing such things, I'm very happy that you are a believer."  He never argued with me after that.

Permalink Reply by A3Kr0n on February 6, 2012 at 9:34pm

That's a very good reply!

Permalink Reply by Madhukar Kulkarni on February 1, 2012 at 7:26am

God, the keeper of human conscience. Actually, the conscience works far better if the fetters of belief in Him are broken.