Doesn’t everyone believe in God, deep down?
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Of course many people claim to be atheists and agnostics but you might want to run a little test on them like I did with a friend of mine.
He told me that he “didn’t believe in all that primitive mumbo jumbo” and felt that science had pretty much provided all the answers.
So I asked him to do a simple test to which he readily agreed.
I suggested that the following day after he woke up that he would sit quietly for a few moments (or minutes if he were able) and then simply say, “Today, I surrender to you and ask you to use me as you see fit”.
His reaction?
He immediately became indignant and frustrated and said, “I’d never do that”.
When asked why he replied, “What, surrender my free will?”.
And then he became even more perplexed when I stated the obvious, that if there was nothing “there” that he had nothing to be concerned about.
He wouldn’t carry out the test.
If you’re an atheist or and agnostic, will you try the test?
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Well I have to say that I didn’t imagine that there would be any problem when I sat down this morning and decided to try the “test”.
But after sitting quietly for a few minutes and composing myself I found myself feeling very uncomfortable about saying, “Today, I surrender to you and ask you to use me as you see fit” and eventually I didn’t say it.
I will try it again a few times and try to figure out what the problem is!
@ Miss Skeptic
Interesting that you had that reaction because I asked a “confirmed atheist” to do it today and not only wouldn’t he do it but he got really angry too.
Kind like, “Hey, I don’t need to prove that I’m right” …
I personally can’t look out of my window and think, “Well it all just happened”, but I have friends that tell me, “Hey you’re bright, surely you know that science solved the mysteries long ago”.
I decided to check out what many of out greatest scientists actually thought about the issue and you can check out their thoughts at, “What many top scientists had to say about creation“.
Hi live-one,
The list of scientists that your link leads to is really impressive and the people on it made truly major changes to our world.
I sent an email to a few friends with the link and whilst most were receptive, one replied ..
“All the people on the list come from a time when they would have been burned as heretics.
Probably Christened (apart from Einstein!) and raised religiously rather than by atheists”.
Stephen Hawking has said, in his writings, “the actual point of creation lies outside the scope of presently known laws of physics,” and a less well-known but very distinguished cosmologist, Professor Alan Guth from MIT, says the “instant of creation remains unexplained.”
So to say that, “science has the answers to creation” would be foolhardy to say the least!
@ yellowstone
Hi,
I can understand and also appreciate the person that wrote, “All the people on the list come from a time when they would have been burned as heretics. Probably Christened (apart from Einstein!) and raised religiously rather than by atheists”.
The problem with his opinion is that None of the people on the list sound like they were believers in Name only and with the exception of Einstein they all appear to have been very devout.
I got this email today after asking a friend about this thread:
and religion has a shred of evidence to support itself?
Walk round the Vatican and admire the wealth , its just a man made business!!
Like any other company with websites , catalogs and salespeople , this one is selling salvation and how to avoid damnation and a chance that after life on earth is life in Nirvana, valhalla or heaven
See it for what it is
I’m reading about the separation (instigated by the Raj and Mountbatten) of Hindu India, Islamic Pakistan and mixed Bangladesh , around a million died , which one had which god on their side??
It seems amazing to me that people that are otherwise intelligent, can’t separate religion from creation.
I’d say that ‘religions’ are man made and therefore suspect and most likely corrupt, but what has this got to do with the creation of the universe, when no religions existed?