Why do so many of my people believe in God?

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No...
His name is Nambo...

This is Yahoo Serious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Serious

As far as the second stage of mental evolution that you describe goes, people use inductive reasoning ( I have a preconceived idea, and I will go out and find the "proofs" that supports it and ignore anything which doesn't support it ). In the third stage, one uses deductive reasoning, and takes a good, hard look at the evidence. Both Christians and atheists can be guilty of using inductive reasoning. For myself, while I was raised a Protestant, I left the Church as a young adult, and have since come back after the death of my wife. What led me back was deductive reasoning. The Big Bang Theory doesn't stand up to the First Law of Thermodynamics; The theory of evolution is based on ancient, obsolete 'science'; and, the scientists a few years ago decided that they couldn't account for the gravitational mass of the universe, so they 'invented' "Dark Matter " to explain why their previous theories were flawed. Sounds to me like the Fingerprint of God.

Confirmation bias:
"Confirmation bias, also called myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's beliefs or hypotheses.[Note 1][1] It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias



I am sure it didn't work that way...
True science is objective and dispassionate...
A true scientist is focused on the truth, whatever it is, rather than self aggrandisement...
Remember, there are many who enjoy the debunking of BS...
It was probably more the case that there was an anomaly which was addressed after considerable vexation...

I might do some inductive reasoning to find out...

"Ill be back..." with the guff...
...If my confirmation bias allows...

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Because they want to believe when they die they still live in a different place.

God just isn't logical. That is why I am a nonthiest.

In my opinion, it illogical to disbelieve God. From any of the things I've looked into, the prevailing theories of creation do not make much sense either. I believe alot of people disbelieve God because there is a lot of pressure to. Who WANTS to live a self-sacrificial lifestyle? Who WANTS to deny themselves pleasures? Who WANTS to feel as though they have no input on anything? Academia ridicules those of any faith, in particular the Christian faith. Many in the scientific community have been essentially blackballed for their faith. There is actually quite a few credible scientific organizations that claim they have proven many derided Biblical claims scientifically.

Alot of this discussion can be boiled down to one question- What exactly IS proof? We call something "proven" because some university study says so, but should we? How often does anyone check these studies, validate if they were ever even done, checked the qualifications of those performing them, and scrutinized the methods? If you have, it's probably only because you want to personally disbelieve the conclusions. But if it's reported that some Harvard study says this and that, we call often accept that as proof. To me this is clearly foolish and borderline outright stupid. We call current event things proof when it's reported by some "credible" news agency. But who decides that? We are quick to question God's existence, however we often blindly accept our (humans) own creations such as the media, government and education systems. Even our own eyes deceive us. Constantly.

It's all faith. People who live by the ever-changing book of science have decided that's where they will put their faith. Those who live by some holy book or books, have put their faith in that. And the craziest part is none of will definitively know until we are dead.

For the record, I believe in God. God as in the Biblical God, Christ etc. However I am not a Christian. While I believe in God I don't believe all of what the Bible says about Him. I actually believe God to be quite cruel in reality. I do not believe God is a loving God. Not any more.

God is the most-deceptive phenomenon ever to exist since the identity of the Anti-Christ is none other than the Dark-Side of God itself ! The belief that God is All-Love or Only Loving is most-certainly a False-Belief.

I now quote some writings from The Messiah (the real one of course)...

Anyone who has read the old testament would know that he/she is a vengeful god...
But the modern theists conveniently forgets that inconvenient truth...

A being that subjects you to the facets of time constrained existence....purpose, meaning, good and bad, cause and effect and judges you accordingly, is as much a function of time constrained consciousness as are humans and therefore cannot be omnipotent. A being at once constrained yet unconstrained, good yet bad, in time and not of time, evil and good...this is the likeliest nature of omnipotence. Pure dispassion.

The gods of our subjective minds certainly do not fall into this category.

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I guess - at least in part - that last part sums up something that could get me in the pews regularly , even as I also WANT TO " praise the Lord " ~ Wanting a Halllmark Channel type of scenario ?

You could talk to an invisible magic man in the sky, but unless you are schizophrenic or under the influence of some sort of hallucination inducing drug, the conversation will be one-sided.



Sometimes "God did it" isn't satisfying. When confronted with the question "who creating the universe?" creationists typically bring up the ontological argument. Saying "god did it" is circular logic. Who created god then? If the answer is another creator, this continues ad infinitum.



It may be depressing but truth is true regardless of how you feel.


I think that if people were more open-minded then the population would consist largely of atheists. People just don't seem to be willing to move past their religious dogma and be open to scientific things that may contradict parts of their faith.

The question is not "why do humans believe in God?".

It seems to be "why do so many aspies believe in God?"

Well...the religious aspies who visit the PPR all claim that they are a minority here on WP. So according to them very few aspies DO believe in God. Or fewer per capita than the NT population. So apparently the question is moot.

Please forgive the fact that I have not yet returned to this thread that I created. A lot happened after I made it, and I basically forgot. Recently I guess, this site updated and sent me an email that made me remember it again and I decided to see if any one every replied to my post. I was surprised to find 5 pages, and enjoyed reading all of them, although some of the longer ones with less valid points may have been mostly skimmed through.

Let me start with the last reply, above this one. This person mentioned that my question was moot since most Aspies don't believe in god any way. But when I asked "Why do so many aspies believe in god", I was not suggesting that MOST of them do. I was basically asking "Why do any?". This is because, again, I identify myself strongly as a member of this group. When talking to another aspie, I see many similarities to my own mind that I do not tend to find elsewhere. Because of this, I may be projecting somewhat when I refer to aspies in general as having a "superior mind", since my mind is, in my opinion (and according to evidence that I am presented with on a daily basis), superior to the vast majority. I'm sorry for how obnoxious that obviously sounds, but I feel comfortable being blunt here. Any way, because of that, when I see a similarity between my way of thinking and some one else's, I can't help but think "that person has the same potential as me".

This also causes me to see some one who is like me in many different ways, but believes in god, and ask myself "What led them to deviate from the path of reason in such a way?" That is because, the many reasons for not believing in god have always been obvious to me. Many of these points were outlined by a link that was posted early in the replies which I enjoyed reading.

After reading most of what was said, I have found that the responses were much better than I ever expected. Yes, some one called me out on certain BS. Yes, there were some ignorant reasons that I found unhelpful such as "I believe because it isn't illegal and you cant stop me." Or "Science hasn't proven us wrong yet so god must exist." But for the most part, this gave me exactly the window that I wanted into the logic of people with similar mindsets to myself and who have taken this deviation. One particular response seems to be the acknowledgement that it is a non-logical and emotionally based opinion, because well, emotions exist. I was happy to read this, because saying that you have no valid logic that supports a belief in god but instead choose to do it purely from emotion and desire shows me how intact that persons ability to understand logic and reason actually is, despite believing in god.

All in all, I am glad that I made this post, and glad that I returned to read what every one wrote. I am sorry that I did not reply sooner, but on the other hand I am glad that I got to see the response of multiple people without my interference. I very strongly wanted to reply to many peoples comments while reading them, but if I had been here to do that I would have certainly changed the course of the conversation. Although I'm sure this thread died a long time ago, I can't help but hope that some of the people who replied to me have the chance to read this and know my appreciation. You're words have not fallen on def ears my friends, thank you for helping to further my understanding.