If somehow you learned there was no god, how would that change your daily life?
819219
It wouldn't change it at all. I don't assume there is a god. I try to be a good person "for Goodness' Sake," not to receive some heavenly reward from a bearded man in the sky.
752616
Whether I believed in God or not, my behavior would change very little.  I believe that life is more pleasant when we treat each other with respect, compassion and generosity, and demand the same from our leaders.  It is worse when we seek to comfort ourselves to the detriment of others.  Promises of reward and threats of punishment are not necessary.\n\nIt's not a matter to me of whether I believe God exists but whether God, as presented, makes sense.  If God created us to endure a series of tests or a rule-bound game, with an absolute reward/punishment outcome, I'd consider that God unworthy of the concept.  If God is a co-witness and fellow traveller who values experience over obedience, whose concept of justice is based on compassion rather than rules, and who would never consider abandoning one of his creatures, I could buy into that.  \n\nGod is supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent.  They say knowledge is power, then they say power, especially absolute power, corrupts.  Not quite true.  As humans, we can never have absolute knowledge or power, only "more" of each.  It is the remaining ignorance and fear that corrupts us because our grasp is tenuous.  Were someone to have absolute control of all power and knowledge in the universe, that person would be invulnerable and would understand everything.  That person would have no needs or threats, and no obligation to "settle" others' conflicts.  That person would be free to either ignore the problems or to objectively show a better way out of them.\n\nIf you are a parent, you may have had an experience of children fighting among themselves, understanding both of them perfectly while realizing that their dispute is meaningless.  Or you may have comforted a child facing a new experience, or cautioned a child incapable of recognizing a danger.  That's what it would be like for God.  Dispassion, wisdom, and patience would be God's attributes.  Anger, revenge and score-keeping just don't fit the picture.  These are the attributes of weak, fearful, childish humans.\n\nThe omniscience we lack is the reason we are in conflict, because we don't understand each other.  The omnipotence we lack means some of us will be stronger than others and we would likely exploit that for the sake of our own security.  God would transcend all that.  Absolute knowledge is understanding.  Absolute power is compassion.\n\nIf God were presented logically, as a loving creator who calls us out of fear into confidence and sympathy, I could go for it. The petty, capricious autocrat painted by Bible-thumpers doesn't make the grade.
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A philosopher said there are four outcomes to not believing in GOD\n\n\n1. You don't believe in GOD and you have a good life, you die there is a GOD you go to hell\n\n\n2. You don't believe in GOD and you have a good life, you die there is no GOD and you just rot\n\n3. You do believe in GOD and you have a good life, you do and you eternally happy living in heaven\n\n3. You do believe in GOD and you have a good life, you do there is no GOD, oh well\n\n\nIt is better to believe in GOD then to die and realize you made a mistake.
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Believe in your heart that there is no god.  Knowing this will give you the confidence to get up every day and live your life for the human species.  Be kind to your neighbors and most likely they will be kind to you.  Promote our species and planet to the top of your priorities.  Doing this will empower you with a sense of purpose and urgency rather than guilt from a fictional god.
935244
None of the above. There is no god.
944737
We would probably discover as we explored the final frontier, boldly going where no man had gone before, that there were no new unknown lives to seek out, no new civilizations to study.\n\nIn any case, I do not know why that would change a person's beliefs either way. I don't think it would change who we are inside either. It never did in the past when the explorers searched out "new worlds" such as the Americas and so forth.
9625
No. I think God would find our day-to-day existence kind of boring. Everything amusing thig we do he's probably already thought of.
692243
i agree with you if there was no God  there would bno such thing atheist
734273
It's true. Without God, I'd be lost.
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None.  There is no God. \n\nReligion is a primitive attempt at understanding how the world works. It has been completely replaced by the Scientific Method, which is the greatest discovery of all time.\n\nThere is no more evidence for the existence of God than there is for the existence of leprechauns. Better to spend our time enjoying our wonderful world and helping our fellow beings instead of arguing about which brand of imaginary supernatural friend is the "right one".
747472
here's a good answer: God. I don't understand how people can look at the complexity of human life and still say there is no God. It is statistically impossible that we exist on our own.
563230
I don't have a religion...I see no proof that a god does exist so until I see proof I choose to not believe...There are way too many bad things happening in the world to think that somewhere there is a god/higher being that could make it be better and just chooses to do nothing.
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the question is- what if there wasn't?
99860
Well at least you are aware of the fact that you don't have any thats a start.....I find the only thing that truly changed the negatives in my life was the acceptance of the Holy Spirit ...
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i think there might be a god, but i'm not sure. i don't think a god would be as judegmental as christians make him out to be. what would really make me a believer would have to be a personal experience of some kind.
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Nothing at all. \n\nI have faith that God has a plan for the salvation of each and every one of us that is going to work, so why would I change anything?\n\nLove and blessings Don
575025
That's a very big "if". \n\n"If" a pink elephant appeared to you in a vision and said it was God, would you switch religions?