God believers, If your belief in God is not based on ignorance, why do you use "questions" to debate?
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obviously you don`t know anything about teaching, you have to bring up key points to make one.
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Example:\n\n"Do you believe in a Supreme Being?"\n\nAtheist: "No"\n\nAgnostic: "There is no evidence either way, so I don't know what I believe." (translation into English: "No.")\n\nAgnostics are wimpy atheists more concerned about what others think than expressing their real opinions.\n\nAdditional comment:\n\nThe "why" is irrelevant; agnostics do not believe in a Supreme Being and are atheists.
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No.  I ask the questions to which I want to know the answer.  I ask them once.  My questions have nothing to do with my own faith/religion or lack thereof.  They mostly have to do with my ignorance of other religions.
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I am not offended.\nIt also depends on the perception of the query.\nThe way I interpret the questions....\n1) If you do not believe then why question for truth or answers.\nIt should be of no consequence to you why I have faith and if I should prove anything to you.\n2) My belief has no consequence on your life. Being a conservative or a Liberal has cause and effect on your life directly, hence the oppositions and voting procedures.\n3) I want my team to win; you want your team to win. A direct opposition in the form of a contest. Big difference.\n4) Your exploratory questions about God do nothing more than attempt to dispel my belief rather than you seek out God. Another difference.\n\nSo my life has no effect on yours.\nYour life has no effect on mine.\nGod is real, honest and true.\n\nThe double standard you speak of comes into play when you question the heart of a person's life.\nThere are offshoots that come from Religion about politics, but that is a totally separate entity.\nArguments come from different views.\nReligion should have little arguments since it is personal and you have little to gain by understanding my standing with Jesus and the God our Father.\nPolitics and sports will always have contests.\n\nHave a good day.
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I think most people ask questions with a sincere desire to find answers to their unresolved problems.  Some ask to be reassured, some to ridicule and some have a preconceived viewpoint and want to be vindicated.  Those people do not consider another point of view and are rather insulting to those who have a different belief.
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Large majority find the questions on the front page - that would be coincidence. But others still are interested in what people think concerning religion and God. No one can say that they don't have a doubt about what they believe in, so they are searching. Everyone wants answers to their questions. How can they not ask questions when they wake up in the morning and see a beautiful sunrise, look at the stars, the moon, everything around us is a miracle.\n\nI still have questions and doubts in Christianity but I know that only God has the answers to all questions and I will only find them out when I see him in heaven.\n\nPersonally for me - I would rather live for something - trying to become a better person, living a better life, loving people, having a community and dying to find out I was wrong. Then not and find out I was wrong and go to some terrible place because I didn't believe. I want to be right but hope I am wrong because I don't want people to go to a terrible place. Seems unfair sometimes!\n\nEveryone needs a sense of belonging
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I wrote the following in a blog on God's coherence (source below):\n------------\nBefore I begin, I’m going to define some terms for the purpose of this discussion. These are by no means concrete and we can define them further if need be.\n\nAtheist: Someone without the belief in God. It is not necessarily a position where the person says affirmatively that God does not exist. Atheist is a general statement about a non belief in any God concept.\n\nHard Atheist: This is the person who says that God does not exist, affirmatively.\n\nWeak Atheist: This is a person who does not feel that there is any quality evidence for the existence of God. They do not rule the concept of God out definitely, but they see no reason to believe in any of the Gods they know of.\n\nAgnostic: Agnosticism is not a position on whether one believes in God or not, it is a position on whether one believes that it is possible to know positively whether God exists or not. Additionally it’s a position on whether God can be known through experience.
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In simpler terms...debate with atheists makes me think, learn, and grow as a Christian.  I might stumble a bit, and maybe even embarrass myself, but I am usually a better Christian for it afterwards.\n\nAbsolutely, bring it!!
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Mostly I ask a question to find out something I don't know the answer to. \n I hate it when people insult God, they do that mostly out of ignorance. or to get a reaction out of someone.
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"God thinks" you say.  Really?  What do you base your belief on?
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I ask these questions all the time. And my reason is this...\n\nThe questions are seen by a few hundred people at best, and then are bumped down the queue, not to be seen again until the are resolved, and pop up on the front page again.\n\nTherefore, I will continue to ask questions, to reach as many of these theists as I can.  My purpose is not to insult them, or argue with them.  I just want them to get the question stuck in their heads.\n\nBecause even though it will anger them when they read the question the first time... they have to THINK about it to formulate a response to it.  And if they think about it long enough, eventually, they'll begin to see why religion is so illogical... and false.\n\nAnd that's all I want them to do... THINK about it...\n\nNow, why do I care?  For me, it's about politics.  Religion is destroying this country, and affecting my life, in many different ways.  I want it gone, as soon as possible...
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If someone asks a biblically based question and will not accept a biblical answer, then they were not trying to ask you anything at all. They are looking for a contradiction to discount anything biblical in the first place as to excuse their unbelief!
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maybe you dint find a real believer in God, who is to have an argument with!\n\ni mean believing in something is a symbol of emotional dependancy or some sort of confidence over the 'unknown' that it would help their .. watever! so, people should know whether they really believe or whether they think that they believe or whether they are testing their faith. a person who selflessly believes in god will argue with you better than a person who is a believer for his own reasons. so it depends on the mentality of the person you are arguing with.\n\nLastly i am not contending with your opinion and neither am i condemning it. I am also not trying to argue with you. I am not an atheist. I am not a christian either. you have your right to believe whatever you want.. and so have I. Loosing an argument doesn't prove that gods dont exist and winning an argument doesnt prove either. stop taking things personally and find people who you really want to contend with, the 'arguable' people.
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Whether there is or isn't a god, the fact is you ARE allowed to search for the truth, and so those who object on religious grounds would not be speaking for whatever god may actually exist.\n\nWhich is precisely why some people prefer to be called agnostics, because their objections are to the religious depictions of a god, and the rules that supposedly come from that source, rather than to the existence of some supreme force or being per se.\n\nMost important, in my view, is to object to depictions of a creator god, as again this implies rules exist in nature that are inconsistent with science as we know it.  Mythology is one thing, but a belief that regards that mythology as true because one wants it to be true is not consistent with the type of search for the truth that you are advocating by this question.
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no.  everyone believes in something different when it comes to things that cannot be proven (ie monotheism/polytheism).  and you might not want to quote something from someone biased.
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When a human being wholehartedly believes in what he/she thinks is the truth, automatically tends to believe that the truth he/she found is THE TRUTH, and that everything else is false. Why? Because humans don´t like to make high stakes on something that may not be real. So, if they did make high stakes, the desperately NEED their beliefs to be TRUE, what immediately means that the others´ are not. \nSo they argue, they fight and they even would kill (take a look at history) in the name of their God.\n\nI´m an atheist, but I don´t want to convert everyone. To each his/her own! Even religious people accept that "the paths to God are diverse".\n\nTolerance should be the natural outcome of a little humbleness... which humans tend to lack.
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I think questions are asked out of curiosity. So it is well safe to say you ask questions about things opposite your beliefs. \nHuman nature seems to question other people's lines of thought but it is hard for someone to look within themselves, even when they are told to. Just a thought.