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Do You Really Have To Believe In God?

God: All powerful being, or security blanket?


  • Security blanket

    To me, God started out as a way to explain things people didn't understand. It evolved into fear and out of control worship. Really, all religions started out as cults. Yes, even Christianity.

    30%  Voted for by hollowandconfused, Stella Cadente, Lost one, Oral Fixation.
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  • ??????

    You asked a question:

    ***Do You Really Have To Believe In God***

    but you did not say for what? Do you really have to believe in God for????????? For you to get to heaven, have friends, do the dishes or what???? I'm not sure what you are asking so I don't know how to answer you exactly.

    15%  Voted for by Energizer Bunny, bob2314.
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  • Needs are not universal, they always have a 'for'

    A need, ought, have to; all of these things (aside from determinism and compulsion, in that it is unchangeable, we refer here to if choice is imminent) are only conditionary. One does not HAVE to eat food. One does not HAVE to drink water. You can stop (compulsion aside). But if you do, seemingly, there is a consequence. You will die. So, it is not that food is a universal need, but food is a need FOR survival.

    We can talk of hypothetical universal needs, but such things, as I understand, don't even have a clear definition, even in theory and hypothesy.

    15%  Voted for by TeChNoWC, achingsoul.
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  • Nope

    nah its alright you dont need to believe god...just like you dont need to believe in the toothfairy, guess it just makes life seem fakely magical if you do believe...something to get your hopes up and live for...an answer to all the questions that bug you, even if it isnt the right one better than having that nag you for your life

    Voted for by nays-lil-boat.
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  • !!!!!!!

    I was going to quabble about the question of the question but I think you are right EB... One does not HAVE to believe in God unless they want something. That something may not be necessarily be material. Do you really have to believe in God to be a follower of certain religeons? Yes. Do you need to believe in God period? Well that goes back to why you would ask the question in the first place. Recently people have been toying with the idea that "God" isn't anything that we will ever understand. That maybe God is not anything humanlike (although the bible states that we are in God's form)maybe God is an idea. My brain hurts from asking this same question and because I do not belong to any religeon I would answer NO. I don't HAVE to believe in God. It is a choice and I like to think that God is out there in some form and is watching over me at all times.

    Voted for by wolfencopter.
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  • we are not the boundaries of reality

    i think it is a major misconseption to think it actually matters whether we believe something to be true or not. whether i believe in a God or not does not make God any more or less real. the reality weather God exists does not revolve around the synapses of human individuals. if God exists it's because he is independant of our human boundaries.

    Voted for by slder4crst.
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    i think that if god wanted us all to believe in him or her or whatever then he could have made it so we did.because if we actually were created by him then he should know that we aren't perfect.religion is one big opinion and god expects us to have an opinion

    Voted for by allaboutpoetry.
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  • Security Blanket

    People need someone to believe in.

    Voted for by lod .
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