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The existence of God

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As a indian hindu (which i am proud to be) i must say that in our religion there is a lot of stuff which has not to be and is total crap. I think that god exists but cannot be achieved by idol worship or all ritual stuff (no offense for those who believe in this). I do not fear god and think that if he is our creator , would never set a "hell" for us.
I think of god as a mentor who can help in bitter times. I think of god as a friend on whom i can trust and complain. I do not think bad for those who do not believe in god , as most of my friends and even my brother do not believe in god. But still i do feel the presence of God. If you go by our mythology... you can find some illustrations which are being now proven scientifically. As a legend goes...

A god once in their childhood though of the sun as a giant mango. Due to their mischievous nature they flew towards the sun to eat it. The sun, alarmed by this, hits him on the face with his weapon.... After this a lot of stuff happens which i am not writing here....

This story may sound very inscientific to you (also to me) but a famous poet of that time wrote about the glory of this god in his poem. Now the scientists of this century... decipher the poem and tell us that the poem tells us the exact estimate of the distance between that sun and the earth during the summer equinox (remember the legend? ).

How could have a poet calculated the distance at that time? Though this is not enough proof for the existence of god but still I believe it.

A great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan had given the proof of most of his theories as follows:

"I dont know, just some goddess appears in my mind, tells me the theory. I just write it on a paper and publish it"

His equations are now being proven by mathematicians all over the world.
If he was speaking the truth about this then we may say that god really exists.

PS: I totally agree with ShinyUmbreon in his post. What he said is 100% truth to me.
Sorry if i hurt anyone's feelings.
 
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I am an atheist, I don't think there is an all-creating and observing god. And it's true we can't disprove the existence of any god, nor can we prove one exists.

I for one am sure that in time science can and will disprove a god, it won't be in my lifetime but it'll happen. I've always figured that a god was an answer to that we don't understand. Like how Thor became a god; people couldn't grasp how lightning and thunder came to be. It's in our nature to have an explanation for everything that happens and during the time, when humans couldn't figure out how thunderstorms worked: It must be the work of a god and so creating the explanation to how thunderstorms came to be.

So, for a long time we as a species had no clue on how everything was created, thus it must be the work of a god. I know religion is way more than just the "tale" of how everything came to be, but this was an example. I'm also pretty sure that when gods are proven to be non-existant, people will still believe in it or hold on to religion.

Religion is on itself a harmless practice that helps a lot of people, I personally see religion as a guide to life. And if people want to have a religion, whichever one it is, should always be possible. I can be an atheist and you can believe in Allah, God, Buddha or whatever deity you want to believe in, for all I care you believe in the flying spaghetti monster.

And to be totally honest, I've always been interested in believes of others, I find it interesting to find out how for example the Islam works. Even as an atheist, you can learn from religion or how religious people interact with each other and how they use their religion as a red line through life.

I do however hate that religion is used to manipulate people. That is never the point of having a religion in my view. And especially during medieval times religion was used as a power tool of control, which in my view is the worst way to treat a religion.
 
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