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Old 06-20-2008, 07:36 PM
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There are a number of reasons why people believe in God.

Boagie is right - some do simply because the Bible directs them.

But this is not the only reason.

Others claim certain spiritual experiences reveal the truth to them, and many of these accounts are essentially identical to accounts about Buddhist meditation.

Others simply find God to be an effective metaphor, and effective way of understanding reality.

Often times, belief in God is like belief in Santa Claus. But to reduce all belief in God to being so childish is to make some very negative assumptions about the intellectual capacity of very intelligent people.
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thanks, should have thought about that. But still, why would it matter if god existed as a separate entity, one that is perfect, its silly to me because it seems like an amoral concept.
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thanks, should have thought about that. But still, why would it matter if god existed as a separate entity, one that is perfect, its silly to me because it seems like an amoral concept.
Beats me. Not all notions of God see God as a 'separate entity'. Sufism has some very interesting things to say about that.
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