My family has an unshakeable religious resolve, but I fell out of faith as a preteen. The sheer volume of competing religions filled me with doubt, and I never managed to overcome that. I know a lot of people on either side of the faith coin, but my own indecisiveness is starting to weigh on me.
Do any of you believe anything? If so, how do you support it in debate/under critique? Why do you think your faith is the correct one, and how did you come to that conclusion?
Wew lad Sup Forums is fast, but I think there's a Good Friday thread up already, too.
Do you not pay attention to any of the religious threads that allow you to ask anything?
Considering how easy it would be for anyone to write in a "holy book" like the bible (THE WORLDS LONGEST RUNNING GAME OF TELEPHONE) I don't care what the books say and just choose to believe there is a God. Not a particular God just that one exists. Because there are so many religions out there the odds of choosing the right one are slim. I like having options ie not being restricted in what I do or say because God said so in a book. But if any God is real my bet would be Jesus or Kek, but again no clue so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't come to Sup Forums often, but you're right: I should've checked the catalog.
I consider myself a deist.
I think that there is a higher force, but since we don't actually know jack shit about it nor it seems to give a single fuck about us (apparently because everything is made perfect, and under "perfect" I mean self-regulating and not requiring any interference), it doesn't matter.
and not requiring any intervention*
Deism is interesting to me. It seems like the easiest sort of faith to at least discover some sort of reasonable proof of, but I see more articles about people trying to prove we live in a simulation than te existence of a God figure, Abrahamic or otherwise.
The notion of deism is silly because it presumes an all-powerful God that, by necessity, not only create everything but conceives of it all well.
>He lets it run on its own
Fine, but by nature of omnninessince He is still aware of everything, and had been aware of it at its onset.
>the universe is to big for God to care
Then that could would not be Omnipotent. An all powerful God, by definition, would have an inexhaustible amount of concern.
I think it isn't that the universe is to big not to care, rather the events within the universe simply aren't of that being's concern? Sure, he/it COULD express an infinite concern, but chooses not to.