Guess I’ll get things started here! Tell me what you believe about the creation of the universe, and any god(s) that may be out there. But most importantly, let’s hear why you believe it!

  • A_Very_Big_FanOPM
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    1 year ago

    I believe that religious belief is faith rather than believing in a hypothesis without evidence.

    What is the difference between faith and “believing a hypothesis without evidence”?

    As a non-believer, these concepts are the same to me

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      1 year ago

      Maybe faith is also not good enough defined to use it without further explanation.

      Let me use an example my religious parents always used. For them the “god” is the thing that they use to define their life. For them a soccer fan who goes to some stadium most Sundays, and plans and lives their life around their team would have “soccer” as god. Therefore, the sentence “I don’t think a god exists” just doesn’t make sense. In their framework of religion everyone has one or multiple gods, it’s just the things everyone uses to live for. And the faith is the dedication towards these life defining things.