No one can say for sure. Religious people say that there is. Atheists say no. Everyone has their own truth. There is no answer to the question of what happened before the big bang, just as there is no answer to the question of where God came from. Everyone believes in their own things. Someone in God, someone in science. Therefore, everyone has their own god.
If this question could be answered unambiguously — then you would not have this question. The whole essence of the concept of the existence of a Supreme Being lies in the phenomenon of faith. If it were possible to say exactly — there would be no faith, there would be knowledge. And if there is no faith, then there is no concept of “God”. There is only knowledge.
According to the theory of potentiality, God exists and does not exist simultaneously: potentially (hypothetically) he is – possible, but actually (actually) he is not – impossible. We can always only assume whether God exists or not, whether we exist or not, whether the world exists or not. But assuming this and realizing that we always assume it, we automatically endow the object of our assumptions (God, the world, man) with an eternally hypothetical (potential) epistemological and ontological status.
Most likely it exists, but not in the way that religion gives us. It just so happens that a person, in order to live his life, must, in addition to satisfying the elementary needs of the body, create some philosophical justification for his actions, aspirations and weaknesses. He does this constantly unconsciously. Even if from the outside it seems that a person lives like an animal, without thinking about anything, this does not mean emptiness – at this stage of his life, he strengthens or completes his personal “philosophy”. Let 99% think it's rotten and primitive, but still.�
I mean, if you don't create your spiritual component, the universe will do it for you by force. And whether you are a slave and a nonentity, or an outstanding figure, it DOESN'T MATTER to her. But since each of us cares about our own fate, we begin to come up with a rationale for everything around us that helps us move forward as best we can. And at a certain stage of internal writing of your own philosophy, which unites everything together, it is easier to make such an assumption that “SOMETHING IS SOMEWHERE”.�
All of what follows is purely my opinion and is not intended to offend anyone. Please don't sue me! If you reject a bunch of stereotypes in favor of both existence and absence, then for me rather not. It is quite logical that God was invented as a kind of control system, something higher. But it's hard and unnecessary for me to believe it. I think those who are lonely need God now. Who is looking for reasons to rip themselves off in the morning and fight. But no more. As for religion, it certainly played a huge role in its time. Christianity was the only moral standard after civil strife, when people had no other choice. But I don't see any need for it now.
Then there's the banality: it depends on what you want to call God. And if by God you mean the creator of our universe, then I will not reveal the truth by saying that no one knows for certain. This is the feature: you want to believe it, you want to believe it, you don't believe it. We'll find out all about it. When we die.�
It seems to me that God is rather what is inside a person than what is outside – for example, his conscience. inner core� Personally, I don't believe that there is any higher intelligence in the form of the god that all religions talk about. I would rather believe that God is the laws of nature, the forces that move the universe, but they do not have a mind, they are driven by mathematical laws, most of which we do not yet know. One smart person said that it is impossible to prove that something is not there. But I didn't see any evidence of the existence of God) And some offtopic stuff. At school, my strongly religious history teacher made the same arguments as Anatoly. And even then I was ironic about them. Why? well, let's just say that if the Earth had other parameters, life either did not appear, or would have appeared adapted to such conditions.
Exists. Moreover, no logically consistent model of the world can dispense with the idea of the existence of God. As now, any scientific theories that talk about the origin of the universe are incomplete, since none of them has a methodology that describes the root cause of the universe. Every scientific theory describes the world, starting with an intermediate link, but no more.
It all depends on what purpose you are interested in and who you are interested in. If you quickly find out the answer to the question that humanity has been struggling with for thousands of years, then you will face a fiasco. If you want to collect various theories and hypotheses, then Google can help you with this. If you just collect the opinion of TQ users, then (here we come to the second factor), then there are several options.
Believers will say that it exists, for nihilists it does not exist, agnostics will answer briefly and essentially “xs”, and pagans will ask the counter question: “What kind of god are you interested in?”
In general, before you look for God (or you can call it something else) somewhere, then try to look in yourself.
I don't like the humanization of God, and even more so the associated fear of God (if you make God angry, he'll spank you). I am not against religion in general, but it is obvious to me that it is a time-tested tool of control, so I avoid very religious people. I came across videos on YouTube of a Muslim girl who talked about how to deal with eyebrows from the point of view of Islam and whether it is possible to perform ablution with painted nails. In my worldview, God doesn't care what's wrong with your nails, your hair, your pimples, who's in your bed right now, how many innocent babies you've eaten for breakfast, or whether you've served dan to one monk or at least four. I am not an atheist, but my God is more like some kind of energy network, nature. A set of random fates and circumstances that we can change a little bit every second with our actions and thoughts. Living according to your conscience, getting high from life, you set an algorithm for this world, in which a happy outcome is more or less clearly spelled out. This does not mean that you can build a perfectly good life on the positive side alone, and it does not mean that you have appeased God (I also think that the Christian God values suffering and deprivation very much). But in any case, we must do our best to save up the energy of kindness and love of life – I think this is the easiest way to integrate into the System. So for me, there is a God, but he is more like a tangle of threads than an uncle with a magazine in which he writes down your points.
Since we have already spoken about the self-determination of the existence of God, and the fact that in fact God is one's own Self, I will add only about the very essence of faith.�
Whether there is a God or not, I don't think it matters. “Any religion,” and any deity is just a set of laws, “one of the early stages in the development of the legal system, “understandable and unconditional” for the public.�
After all, if in the power of any of the rulers, “and as a result,” avoiding punishment for crimes is possible, “then the” heaven-hell ” system headed by God is unconditional.�
But human greed has taken its toll, ” and now any God “who has his own church (there are many denominations) is nothing more than business, or fanaticism, which is no longer healthy.
Science does not know whether there is a God or not. And the fact that there was such a man Jesus and that he wrote the 11 commandments, it seems to be true. Everything else is an interpretation of these commandments, and in a sense adapted to the needs of the rulers of those times.
Revolutions also started with good intentions and what came of it?
Here you need to clearly separate two completely different things: faith and knowledge. Each of these concepts satisfies completely different psychological and intellectual needs of a person.�
As an intellectual need, knowledge, real knowledge, demands: question everything. Even if you're sure, check and double-check. Therefore, intellectual truth based on knowledge is constantly changing, improving, and enriching. She's not dead, she's alive
Religious faith proclaims something quite different:If I believe in God, then I exist; if I don't, then my soul is dead. It is impossible to prove or refute this postulate, it is a psychological attitude. Nor does a believer need proof of God's Existence. Therefore, religious postulates are based primarily on tradition. They are firm in their fundamentalism.
Any most advanced intellectual is always a human being. Therefore, you can be a great polymath, a world-wide scientist and remain a religious person. That's right: religion has accompanied us since the darkest of times.
The fact that faith is a powerful material force, I was convinced by the example of my family. My older sister (now deceased) was very ill in infancy and had a fistula on her neck. Then this fistula was overgrown with the roughest and ugliest scar. Very prominent, beautiful face and figure, the girl was terribly complex about this. The collars of her clothes were always high to cover this scar. But then one day, she was already under 60, I came to visit her and did not see the scar. It's like he never even existed. In answer to my question, she nodded at the TV: she was charging water. She also showed me her knee, which had been mutilated by several surgeries: there were no signs of surgery.
“So what's up with God?”
Nothing new, since the gods and the God began to live among people.�
As long as people worshiped their tribal and ancestral gods, i.e. they were pagans, everything was simple: there are gods, which people found a huge amount of evidence for. If our gods are stronger, then we will win and take the “others” as slaves, and their women and property for our own use. Our victory is a sure proof of the existence of these gods.
With the advent of monotheism, everything became much more complicated. Priests of the same religion in different trenches asked the Almighty to destroy their co-religionists. As the saying goes:”God is one, but the providers are different.” So they live, turning the world religion into a collection of small-town pagan gods.
So there is a God, but he is not somewhere out there, but in the soul of the believer. If you don't have it in your soul, then it doesn't exist at all. God is about people and nothing else.
It depends on the criterion of existence that you choose and on the trust in certain sources. Let's do this. Can there be objects that no one has ever seen? Imagine me telling you that there really are elves. I've never seen them, but I just believe in them. Oh, very doubtful. I can just lie to you about miles of creatures and magical things. However, to believe or not to believe in such objects is your choice. Let's move on.
Do you think that objects that you have never seen, but know that other people have seen them? How do I even know which source I can trust? This is generally normal, I have never seen the president of South Africa, but sources that I trust and the general logic of statehood tell me that he exists.
Who informs us of the existence of God? The Bible and books of the Old Testament, apocrypha (books about God and religion that were not included by the Orthodox Church in the list of books of the Old Testament). Can you trust these sources? What trust criteria should I choose?
I start to distrust the source if I catch them with false information. The Bible is full of such moments. Believers say that I misinterpret them, or I focus too much on this. But it was precisely because of such moments that people were burned in Europe who claimed that the Sun does not revolve around the Earth, but quite the opposite.
How else can you prove the existence of invisible entities? Assess their impact on the environment. Electrons, for example, have never been seen, but they have a magnetic effect that can be rigorously tested and proven. Is it possible to prove any influence of God on the world? Must not.
Is it possible to say with certainty from all this that there is no God? Must not. Even if all the sources are blatantly lying, we can't be sure that it doesn't exist. Perhaps it exists, just has a slightly different image than the one in which it is described in books, perhaps it does not exist at all. We cannot prove this strictly. I'm agnostic =)
Everyone chooses it for themselves. If you are interested in such ignorant questions, then perhaps I will assume that you have not solved this for yourself, and you are trying to find out an opinion – which they will try to impose on you.
Oh, these arguments that cut off all doubt in one fell swoop.
of course, there is a G-d, but it cannot be otherwise
Of course, there is a G-d, but someone created us
Of course, there is a G-d, because I can't imagine that there isn't one
It is enough to start studying history to start asking questions. Every event described in the Bible resonates with the events of days gone by. Only now, when you study it in detail, it turns out that with such a portion of noodles on your ears, you read about every fact, which becomes somewhat uncomfortable. In fact, the Bible is nothing more or less than a chronology, a chronicle, if you will.
Then you can study psychology and political science and think about why religion exists. People can't know for sure if G-d, heaven, hell, and other cool things exist, because we've already written here that it's impossible to falsify a non-empirical theory. This led to the development of the idea, they say, that if I do not obey my ruler now (and earlier, as is known, the ruler was identified with G-d or was his deputy, as contemporaries believed), then fig knows what will happen after I die, and death, i.e. the unknown, scares and will always frighten most of all.�
Another question concerns philosophy, because here you need to determine for yourself what you call a beautiful word (and even with a capital letter) God. You can go into” Ethics ” according to Spinoza and present it as matter, you can philosophize according to Nietzsche, saying that G-d is dead, you can reason like Sartre, being a militant atheist, you can reason a lot, but the point is that until you drive the definition of this word into your own framework, no accuracy will be established for yourself.�
For me personally, religion (here the church as a social and political institution) is evil, because studying history, I do not yet find a single reason to justify the atrocities that were committed and are being done because of the great and bright faith in some bearded peasant in heaven.
And yes, it doesn't exist. All the gods are here with you. There is no providence, no Karma, nothing. There is you and your actions, your conscience and your morals. No last judgment, you will have to answer only to yourself.
In fact, from the point of view of science, it is impossible to prove or disprove the existence of God, since it is impossible to conduct any empirical study of this phenomenon – there is neither an object nor an experiment. Not to mention that it is impossible to falsify a non-empirical theory.�
However, the probability of the existence of God tends, in my opinion, to zero: god is getting closer to being cut off by Occam's razor (the philosophical principle that it makes no sense to introduce unnecessary variables that the theory does not need), as the arguments of creationists sound less convincing in the light of the theory of evolution, various astrophysical theories and other scientific achievements. It is much more rational, in my opinion, to assume that God is a product of a specific human psychology.
Moreover, regardless of whether God exists or not, I think we should approach this issue from the pragmatic side: the concept of God, around which most religions are built, has brought much more harm to humanity than good-stupidity and intolerance, disregard for private life and for people in general, a lot of absolutely irrational prohibitions, conservatism and authoritarianism, not to mention wars and terrorist attacks.�
In short, I hope there is no God. And if there is-I don't care, we can do much better without it. I believe in Man!
there is. I can't imagine that there is no God, it's absurd. Consciousness is such a miracle, it cannot exist on its own. I don't like atheist materialists, because I consider them devoid of imagination and mundane. I also don't like ardent adherents of religions, they are too trusting and stupid.
Of course there is? And where do you think this whole world came from and at the expense of what it exists?
We know that everything around us obeys the most complex laws of nature. But if you are a reasonable person, you should understand that someone had to draw up these laws! There is no way to get laws out of an explosion. And then also to monitor their implementation for millions of years.
If we are talking about the Christian God, then, frankly, this is an incorrectly formulated question. Let me explain.
“Is” is the present tense form of the verb “to be”. Being is a category of existence in the universe within the space-time continuum as it is known to humans. There are people. There are planets. There are stars. There are galaxies. There is space. There are atoms. There are neutrinos. There is light.
About God, however, we cannot say that he (or He, as anyone would like) “is” or “is not”. He's not a stool or an apple. Within the framework of the concept described in Scripture and Tradition, developed by the Church Fathers, God is a super-existent or super-existent Absolute. It “is” (simplification) both in the universe and beyond the universe. He conceived it, created it, and will continue to “exist” (simplification) even after the end of the world.
PS The categories of time here are also conditional, because Christians believe that after the end of the world “there will be no more time “(this is a quote from Revelation), respectively, and before the creation of the world (before the Big Bang?) there was no time, either.
No one can say for sure. Religious people say that there is. Atheists say no. Everyone has their own truth. There is no answer to the question of what happened before the big bang, just as there is no answer to the question of where God came from. Everyone believes in their own things. Someone in God, someone in science. Therefore, everyone has their own god.
This question is probably consistently asked once a week.
The answer is traditional.
According to atheists, no.
According to some believers, yes.
In the opinion of another part of believers – yes, and not just one.
According to science , it is not clear where to stick the devices here to check.
So we live. That is why it is faith, not knowledge.
Quite a naive question.
Of course, people who profess a particular religion will write what they have.
Of course, convinced atheists and materialists will write that no.
Agnostics will write what might be and is, but they don't know for sure, and they're not sure.
Everyone will answer this question based on their knowledge and beliefs.
Therefore, you will only get a list of specific people's beliefs, but not an answer to the question asked.
I'm afraid everyone answers it for themselves.
If this question could be answered unambiguously — then you would not have this question. The whole essence of the concept of the existence of a Supreme Being lies in the phenomenon of faith. If it were possible to say exactly — there would be no faith, there would be knowledge. And if there is no faith, then there is no concept of “God”. There is only knowledge.
According to the theory of potentiality, God exists and does not exist simultaneously: potentially (hypothetically) he is – possible, but actually (actually) he is not – impossible. We can always only assume whether God exists or not, whether we exist or not, whether the world exists or not. But assuming this and realizing that we always assume it, we automatically endow the object of our assumptions (God, the world, man) with an eternally hypothetical (potential) epistemological and ontological status.
Most likely it exists, but not in the way that religion gives us. It just so happens that a person, in order to live his life, must, in addition to satisfying the elementary needs of the body, create some philosophical justification for his actions, aspirations and weaknesses. He does this constantly unconsciously. Even if from the outside it seems that a person lives like an animal, without thinking about anything, this does not mean emptiness – at this stage of his life, he strengthens or completes his personal “philosophy”. Let 99% think it's rotten and primitive, but still.�
I mean, if you don't create your spiritual component, the universe will do it for you by force. And whether you are a slave and a nonentity, or an outstanding figure, it DOESN'T MATTER to her. But since each of us cares about our own fate, we begin to come up with a rationale for everything around us that helps us move forward as best we can. And at a certain stage of internal writing of your own philosophy, which unites everything together, it is easier to make such an assumption that “SOMETHING IS SOMEWHERE”.�
What it is, and where it is, is another matter.
All of what follows is purely my opinion and is not intended to offend anyone. Please don't sue me!
If you reject a bunch of stereotypes in favor of both existence and absence, then for me rather not. It is quite logical that God was invented as a kind of control system, something higher. But it's hard and unnecessary for me to believe it. I think those who are lonely need God now. Who is looking for reasons to rip themselves off in the morning and fight. But no more.
As for religion, it certainly played a huge role in its time. Christianity was the only moral standard after civil strife, when people had no other choice. But I don't see any need for it now.
There is. I exist 🙂
Then there's the banality: it depends on what you want to call God. And if by God you mean the creator of our universe, then I will not reveal the truth by saying that no one knows for certain. This is the feature: you want to believe it, you want to believe it, you don't believe it. We'll find out all about it. When we die.�
World.
It seems to me that God is rather what is inside a person than what is outside – for example, his conscience. inner core�
Personally, I don't believe that there is any higher intelligence in the form of the god that all religions talk about. I would rather believe that God is the laws of nature, the forces that move the universe, but they do not have a mind, they are driven by mathematical laws, most of which we do not yet know.
One smart person said that it is impossible to prove that something is not there. But I didn't see any evidence of the existence of God)
And some offtopic stuff. At school, my strongly religious history teacher made the same arguments as Anatoly. And even then I was ironic about them. Why? well, let's just say that if the Earth had other parameters, life either did not appear, or would have appeared adapted to such conditions.
Exists. Moreover, no logically consistent model of the world can dispense with the idea of the existence of God. As now, any scientific theories that talk about the origin of the universe are incomplete, since none of them has a methodology that describes the root cause of the universe. Every scientific theory describes the world, starting with an intermediate link, but no more.
Is there a God?
Depends on who's asking.
It all depends on what purpose you are interested in and who you are interested in. If you quickly find out the answer to the question that humanity has been struggling with for thousands of years, then you will face a fiasco. If you want to collect various theories and hypotheses, then Google can help you with this. If you just collect the opinion of TQ users, then (here we come to the second factor), then there are several options.
Believers will say that it exists, for nihilists it does not exist, agnostics will answer briefly and essentially “xs”, and pagans will ask the counter question: “What kind of god are you interested in?”
In general, before you look for God (or you can call it something else) somewhere, then try to look in yourself.
I don't like the humanization of God, and even more so the associated fear of God (if you make God angry, he'll spank you). I am not against religion in general, but it is obvious to me that it is a time-tested tool of control, so I avoid very religious people. I came across videos on YouTube of a Muslim girl who talked about how to deal with eyebrows from the point of view of Islam and whether it is possible to perform ablution with painted nails. In my worldview, God doesn't care what's wrong with your nails, your hair, your pimples, who's in your bed right now, how many innocent babies you've eaten for breakfast, or whether you've served dan to one monk or at least four. I am not an atheist, but my God is more like some kind of energy network, nature. A set of random fates and circumstances that we can change a little bit every second with our actions and thoughts. Living according to your conscience, getting high from life, you set an algorithm for this world, in which a happy outcome is more or less clearly spelled out. This does not mean that you can build a perfectly good life on the positive side alone, and it does not mean that you have appeased God (I also think that the Christian God values suffering and deprivation very much). But in any case, we must do our best to save up the energy of kindness and love of life – I think this is the easiest way to integrate into the System. So for me, there is a God, but he is more like a tangle of threads than an uncle with a magazine in which he writes down your points.
Since we have already spoken about the self-determination of the existence of God, and the fact that in fact God is one's own Self, I will add only about the very essence of faith.�
Whether there is a God or not, I don't think it matters. “Any religion,” and any deity is just a set of laws, “one of the early stages in the development of the legal system, “understandable and unconditional” for the public.�
After all, if in the power of any of the rulers, “and as a result,” avoiding punishment for crimes is possible, “then the” heaven-hell ” system headed by God is unconditional.�
But human greed has taken its toll, ” and now any God “who has his own church (there are many denominations) is nothing more than business, or fanaticism, which is no longer healthy.
Science does not know whether there is a God or not. And the fact that there was such a man Jesus and that he wrote the 11 commandments, it seems to be true. Everything else is an interpretation of these commandments, and in a sense adapted to the needs of the rulers of those times.
Revolutions also started with good intentions and what came of it?
Here you need to clearly separate two completely different things: faith and knowledge. Each of these concepts satisfies completely different psychological and intellectual needs of a person.�
As an intellectual need, knowledge, real knowledge, demands: question everything. Even if you're sure, check and double-check. Therefore, intellectual truth based on knowledge is constantly changing, improving, and enriching. She's not dead, she's alive
Religious faith proclaims something quite different:If I believe in God, then I exist; if I don't, then my soul is dead. It is impossible to prove or refute this postulate, it is a psychological attitude. Nor does a believer need proof of God's Existence. Therefore, religious postulates are based primarily on tradition. They are firm in their fundamentalism.
Any most advanced intellectual is always a human being. Therefore, you can be a great polymath, a world-wide scientist and remain a religious person. That's right: religion has accompanied us since the darkest of times.
The fact that faith is a powerful material force, I was convinced by the example of my family. My older sister (now deceased) was very ill in infancy and had a fistula on her neck. Then this fistula was overgrown with the roughest and ugliest scar. Very prominent, beautiful face and figure, the girl was terribly complex about this. The collars of her clothes were always high to cover this scar. But then one day, she was already under 60, I came to visit her and did not see the scar. It's like he never even existed. In answer to my question, she nodded at the TV: she was charging water. She also showed me her knee, which had been mutilated by several surgeries: there were no signs of surgery.
“So what's up with God?”
Nothing new, since the gods and the God began to live among people.�
As long as people worshiped their tribal and ancestral gods, i.e. they were pagans, everything was simple: there are gods, which people found a huge amount of evidence for. If our gods are stronger, then we will win and take the “others” as slaves, and their women and property for our own use. Our victory is a sure proof of the existence of these gods.
With the advent of monotheism, everything became much more complicated. Priests of the same religion in different trenches asked the Almighty to destroy their co-religionists. As the saying goes:”God is one, but the providers are different.” So they live, turning the world religion into a collection of small-town pagan gods.
So there is a God, but he is not somewhere out there, but in the soul of the believer. If you don't have it in your soul, then it doesn't exist at all. God is about people and nothing else.
More details on this topic can be found in a large multi-year and, in my opinion, very sensible in many ways, discussion at:�https://atheism.dirty.ru/ia-ne-znaiu-ia-agnostik-ili-kratkii-ekskurs-v-terminologiiu-religioznykh-pozitsii-455016/. Internet kinks and speech incontinence can simply be skipped.
Just in case, to be understood correctly: the author of the answer is an atheist.
It depends on the criterion of existence that you choose and on the trust in certain sources. Let's do this. Can there be objects that no one has ever seen? Imagine me telling you that there really are elves. I've never seen them, but I just believe in them. Oh, very doubtful. I can just lie to you about miles of creatures and magical things. However, to believe or not to believe in such objects is your choice. Let's move on.
Do you think that objects that you have never seen, but know that other people have seen them? How do I even know which source I can trust? This is generally normal, I have never seen the president of South Africa, but sources that I trust and the general logic of statehood tell me that he exists.
Who informs us of the existence of God? The Bible and books of the Old Testament, apocrypha (books about God and religion that were not included by the Orthodox Church in the list of books of the Old Testament). Can you trust these sources? What trust criteria should I choose?
I start to distrust the source if I catch them with false information. The Bible is full of such moments. Believers say that I misinterpret them, or I focus too much on this. But it was precisely because of such moments that people were burned in Europe who claimed that the Sun does not revolve around the Earth, but quite the opposite.
How else can you prove the existence of invisible entities? Assess their impact on the environment. Electrons, for example, have never been seen, but they have a magnetic effect that can be rigorously tested and proven. Is it possible to prove any influence of God on the world? Must not.
Is it possible to say with certainty from all this that there is no God? Must not. Even if all the sources are blatantly lying, we can't be sure that it doesn't exist. Perhaps it exists, just has a slightly different image than the one in which it is described in books, perhaps it does not exist at all. We cannot prove this strictly. I'm agnostic =)
Everyone chooses it for themselves. If you are interested in such ignorant questions, then perhaps I will assume that you have not solved this for yourself, and you are trying to find out an opinion – which they will try to impose on you.
Oh, these arguments that cut off all doubt in one fell swoop.
It is enough to start studying history to start asking questions. Every event described in the Bible resonates with the events of days gone by. Only now, when you study it in detail, it turns out that with such a portion of noodles on your ears, you read about every fact, which becomes somewhat uncomfortable. In fact, the Bible is nothing more or less than a chronology, a chronicle, if you will.
Then you can study psychology and political science and think about why religion exists. People can't know for sure if G-d, heaven, hell, and other cool things exist, because we've already written here that it's impossible to falsify a non-empirical theory. This led to the development of the idea, they say, that if I do not obey my ruler now (and earlier, as is known, the ruler was identified with G-d or was his deputy, as contemporaries believed), then fig knows what will happen after I die, and death, i.e. the unknown, scares and will always frighten most of all.�
Another question concerns philosophy, because here you need to determine for yourself what you call a beautiful word (and even with a capital letter) God. You can go into” Ethics ” according to Spinoza and present it as matter, you can philosophize according to Nietzsche, saying that G-d is dead, you can reason like Sartre, being a militant atheist, you can reason a lot, but the point is that until you drive the definition of this word into your own framework, no accuracy will be established for yourself.�
For me personally, religion (here the church as a social and political institution) is evil, because studying history, I do not yet find a single reason to justify the atrocities that were committed and are being done because of the great and bright faith in some bearded peasant in heaven.
And yes, it doesn't exist. All the gods are here with you. There is no providence, no Karma, nothing. There is you and your actions, your conscience and your morals. No last judgment, you will have to answer only to yourself.
In fact, from the point of view of science, it is impossible to prove or disprove the existence of God, since it is impossible to conduct any empirical study of this phenomenon – there is neither an object nor an experiment. Not to mention that it is impossible to falsify a non-empirical theory.�
However, the probability of the existence of God tends, in my opinion, to zero: god is getting closer to being cut off by Occam's razor (the philosophical principle that it makes no sense to introduce unnecessary variables that the theory does not need), as the arguments of creationists sound less convincing in the light of the theory of evolution, various astrophysical theories and other scientific achievements.
It is much more rational, in my opinion, to assume that God is a product of a specific human psychology.
Moreover, regardless of whether God exists or not, I think we should approach this issue from the pragmatic side: the concept of God, around which most religions are built, has brought much more harm to humanity than good-stupidity and intolerance, disregard for private life and for people in general, a lot of absolutely irrational prohibitions, conservatism and authoritarianism, not to mention wars and terrorist attacks.�
In short, I hope there is no God. And if there is-I don't care, we can do much better without it. I believe in Man!
there is. I can't imagine that there is no God, it's absurd. Consciousness is such a miracle, it cannot exist on its own. I don't like atheist materialists, because I consider them devoid of imagination and mundane. I also don't like ardent adherents of religions, they are too trusting and stupid.
Of course there is? And where do you think this whole world came from and at the expense of what it exists?
We know that everything around us obeys the most complex laws of nature. But if you are a reasonable person, you should understand that someone had to draw up these laws! There is no way to get laws out of an explosion. And then also to monitor their implementation for millions of years.
If we are talking about the Christian God, then, frankly, this is an incorrectly formulated question. Let me explain.
“Is” is the present tense form of the verb “to be”. Being is a category of existence in the universe within the space-time continuum as it is known to humans. There are people. There are planets. There are stars. There are galaxies. There is space. There are atoms. There are neutrinos. There is light.
About God, however, we cannot say that he (or He, as anyone would like) “is” or “is not”. He's not a stool or an apple. Within the framework of the concept described in Scripture and Tradition, developed by the Church Fathers, God is a super-existent or super-existent Absolute. It “is” (simplification) both in the universe and beyond the universe. He conceived it, created it, and will continue to “exist” (simplification) even after the end of the world.
PS The categories of time here are also conditional, because Christians believe that after the end of the world “there will be no more time “(this is a quote from Revelation), respectively, and before the creation of the world (before the Big Bang?) there was no time, either.