Why do you believe in God

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Religious supremacism? Not quite. You are the one going on about "Oh Aspies are just so logical and so much better than NT's, we would never be suckered into believing in anything as foolish as religion, no, that's only for the ignorant pack NT herds."


I don't pick fights with other religions.


Simply false.


I don't disrespect you for being an atheist, I disrespect you for being an arrogant jackass. The two don't necessarily go hand-in-hand, though I've noticed they often do.


You have no basis for this claim. Demographic data on Aspies is far too sparse to make any such claim.

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Religious supremacism...

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you pick fight with non-believers intead?

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examples please?
i can at least give you a few clear examples that my statement is not false at all: the middle ages, missionaries enforcing religion on ancient cultures, 9/11, WWII, the middle east.... and many many others coud be listed here... care to join me making a complete list?

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Religious supremacism... again... and a lot off humor!

i have met IRL and on dutch and danish discussionboards for aspies many "aspie-colleagues"... and i estimate that more than 90% were either atheist or agnostics...

So long as those beliefs do not pose a danger to others.

Just thought I should point out that little caveat.

i can at least give you a few clear examples that my statement is not false at all

The belief a belief is dangerous is quite dangerous.

I should be able to think whatever I like. You seem to think that I should be banned from thinking in something just because it would be dangerous. That's non-sense. For us to be considered free at all, we should at least have freaking freedom of thought.

/facepalm

My religion says you should not be allowed to live

therefore I will kill you and your entire family and you can't complain because you think people should be allowed to believe anything.

People believe in God for various reasons. I believe for everything that is around could not have come by accident or chance. If you do not believe in something you might accept anything. I cannot convence you to believe in God or not , for that is your choice.

And why the heck should I say you are not allowed to think that?

I am against a world in which you don't even have control of your own thoughts,

and thinking something would be banned.

On the cosmological argument? Basically, it's the whole "first cause" deal, why anything exists. It goes back to the ancient Greeks, who postulated the existence of a "prime mover" or "unmoved mover." Something has to have caused the universe to come into existence, and this thing is, under the cosmological argument, assigned the name "God."

And yet you ascribe to a religion... strange

As I said it's not really the thought that's the problem its the coercive effect of religious belief that is trouble.

Oh and most forms of coercion are illegal.

As a kid I was told there was a tooth fairy. When I got a bit older I realized there wasn't. As a kid I was told santa claus was real. When I got a bit older I realized there wasn't. As a kid I was told there was this big invisible being watching over us whom who must worship. You see where I'm going.

Enough Religious supremacism. I got bored of it quite a while ago... 40+ years to be more precise. you were probably not even born at that time.

for my entire life i have heard about religious disputes, wars and what ever. no matter which religion involved.

i'm sick and tired of hearing about religion and this so called "god" stuff. it has never done anything good to humanity for several thousand years!

so... why should i accept that religious people disrespect my choice of being an non-believer? i can't avoid hearing their views because its all over where ever i go, look and listen ... and as soon as i (or other non-believers) express a view on this topic, believers crave respect for the people who believe in this religious nonsens.

religious aspies are by far a minority in the aspie world.... simply because for most aspies religion makes no sense - is not rational and lacks proof and logic.

in the nordic regions where i live the vikings once had a nice cosy religion. unfortunately it got silenced and oppressed by the christians. they took the viking holidays and made them theirs... to assure that the viking would convert.

so happy Yule to all of you believers too! lets drink and eat for 12 days... and celebrate the resurection of the sun!

The question I posed was to get an understanding of why religious people believe what they do, in other words if you don't believe in God then this post has nothing to do with you, there are plenty of posts dedicated to religious arguments, this was not intended to be one.

I briefly touched on that in my last post. Logic cannot explain everything (at least, logic as we humans are capable of comprehending...)