Mens Chat Forum - Your Beliefs On God: No Women Allowed Hah =) Jp

So, I figured we could take a step back and out of the penis related questions for a bit and talk about our personal conceptions on theology, the existence of a God, and the sort. However, I understand there are those who are very serious about their religions, productive debate is fine but if you aren't mature enough to express your beliefs without putting down others, your thoughts aren't needed. Just simple discussion for the openminded and the curious.

I personally am Agnostic, some Christians I knew considered that to be the same thing as Atheist as far as they were concerned, but to be agnostic is to believe that we with our current knowledge have no way to prove the existence of a God (does not mean he does or doesn't exist), so an agnostic can either choose to not believe until proven, or believe until proven false. I just don't think we being mortals despite our advancement in human history, can really postulate the existence of something so incredibly above us. Like explaining to a man of the 14th century what artificial intelligence is.

What is God anyway? Classical Theistic Conception of God states that it is a Being who is wholly perfect, omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-benevolent.

For me personally, it really isn't about God that I question the existence of, but rather the religions that I am concerned about. To make things short, I am more anti-religion then I am anti-God. I just refuse to believe in religion because they have been altered so much by HUMANS throughout the ages. It is not as if however, that I have chose to be ignorant and not hear/know what the religion is about. Turns out I know quite a bit of stories of Christianity (varying from the different branches however), sometimes more then the believers themselves. I know a bit of Paganism, Daoism, Confusionism, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc and even Levey Satanism. Turns out Satanism isn't quite like it was stereotyped to be.

But anyway, onward to God, for the moment I can simply and readily accept that there are beings who are at least "Godly" compared to me or humans in general. Suppose aliens do exist (which I think there has to be considering that scientists say there are more suns then all the grains of sand in the world [imagine the amount of planets even if it were on average 2 per sun! since our sun has 8, I think they trashed Pluto as a planetoid], if any alien were to visit us on earth one day, just consider the difference in knowledge and technological capabilities! The nearest sun from us I think is over 4 light years away, imagine what they are capable of to exceed such things! To us they would certainly be "Godly" because they probably have technology to squash us like a bug.

Concerning the Classical Theistic Conception of God however, I think it is false, just a controversy. Perhaps there could be an all perfect being, omniscient and omnipotent, but I do not see why people have to keep seeing it as a omni-benevolent God. I think people are just too hopeful and prefer the idea of a being that is far greater then us that cares for us then one who would eliminate us like a fly.