Does God Exist?

[GeistFaust]

I think human would be much better if we took on a Deistic approach to God. Not affirming or negating his existence would do us a world of wonder, and would allow only to strive for the practical and real instead of constructing castles in the sky. This is just my perspective and you can take it for what it is worth, but I think learning discipline, self-mastery, morality, intellectually training yourself, and becoming a cultured person are more important.


Unfortunately many people have little concept of these traits and qualities so they are left to wandered loss in what appears to be a meaningless world. I just think humanity needs to stop over anthropologizing abstract divine beings, and to stop theologizing every matter concerning our sense experience, and the object of it with the context of the world.


I think we would save ourselves a lot of problems, but alas I am given up hope that humans will ever stop doing such a thing. Moderation is a impossible thing to achieve with humanity, and it is its major fault, but I don't hold it against humanity for being so. Life is crazy and irrational, and sometimes immediates a crazy and irrational response in order to grasp and understand the self in the context of it.

[Sarmatian]

Anyways, does God exist?

Sure. And there are many of them.

Just last night a was talking to one of them (no sarcasm)

[Teyrn]

I think human would be much better if we took on a Deistic approach to God.

This is probably the most sensible approach to take. Beliefs in the divine based upon scriptural wishful thinking rather than, say, human reason are largely subjective and easily open to doctrinal imposition, clericalism, biblical forgery, etc. Starting with Paul Apologetics™ largely entered the world with Christianity and the apologists have been working tirelessly to defend a silly religion ever since. Faith is more important than reason, gut instinct, and common sense it seems and you'll see many, many Christians who live in mortal terror of the freethought approach and given that there are admonitions in the Bible against trusting human wisdom and human knowledge it's not hard to see why.