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Zach,
Having given it a great deal of thought, I don't think you can believe in something you don't believe in.....either you believe it or you don't and are playing lip service to it.
I've personally wished, in a weird sort of way, that I was able to believe that deeply in something unproven. But, alas, I cannot. I can't even pretend to very well.
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If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers. - Steve Allen
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I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No idea I've ever come up with has ever struck me as a divine revelation. Nothing I have ever observed leads me to think there is a God watching over me.
-Isaac Asimov
(This one fits me perfectly)
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People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
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This other one is perfect for me as well:
If someone were to prove to me - right this minute - that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior. - Luis Buquel
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Hi Accer- I'm a believer in a "Great Spirit" , not an entity. For me, science and spirit hold no contradictions. I do have some problems with religion, though. God or no God, this world sure is big and beautiful, and I believe what we think, say, do and leave behind matters. And I don't think we have free will accidentally. I wonder where brilliant people like you get their brilliance, and I don't mean IQ!
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Well, in my case I'm a dog lover and I can speak in my personal point of view. Dogs really fogive, people not always.
