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View Poll Results: Why do OTHERS believe in God? | |
How else does one explain the universe?
|     | 1 | 50.00% | |
They have experienced God.
|    | 1 | 50.00% | |
It gives them hope.
|    | 0 | 0% | |
Having faith fills a need.
|    | 0 | 0% | |
They were raised to believe.
|    | 0 | 0% | |
Their prayers have been (or are) answered.
|    | 0 | 0% | |
Without God, there wouldn't be morality.
| | 0 | 0% | |
Ultimately, good must be rewarded and evil punished.
| | 0 | 0% | |
They are afraid of death.
| | 0 | 0% |
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26th November 2008, 10:37 AM
| | Loudmouth
   
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26th November 2008, 11:22 AM
|  | Wanderer
 
| | Join Date: 6th February 2002 Location: Erewhon
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Reps: 242,480,131,836,514,624 (power: 242,480,131,836,531) | | Originally Posted by Notedstrangeperson  This sounds a bit simplistic but presumably it would be the same reason most theists believe in God - he exists.
Why do people believe that? |
26th November 2008, 11:54 PM
|  | Impossible to Inevitable
 
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Reps: 37,383,295,934,155,936 (power: 37,383,295,934,169) | | | Hmm...for nearly all the reasons you listed above. I don't see why Christians would deny those reasons...
__________________ Doubt requires more courage
than conviction does,
because conviction is a resting place
and doubt is infinite;
it is a passionate exercise.
Weve got to learn to live
with a full measure of uncertainty.
There is no last word.
That is the silence under
the chatter of our time. John Patrick Shanley |
28th November 2008, 05:05 PM
| | Wanderer
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