Do you want God to exist? — TheMadFool
I am that person, I don't believe in God, but if it were in my gift I would have a God.I wonder - would there be anyone here who doesn't believe in God, yet want one to exist? Or vice versa?
Question for you - if you believe that is the case, why bother saying anything? Whatever you say must be like everything else - meaningless. — Wayfarer
I believe in a God, and am not an atheist. In that scenario, I was trying to point out that, for a theist, discovering that there is actually no God would be confronting - we would be forced to realise that nothing has meaning (if that were the case, which I don't believe it to be). — Javants
Would this be a valid way at looking at your statement? — Rich
"Do you want God or Laws of Nature to exist? Would that be your question? — Rich
My argument, if at all it is one, is that the rational thing to do is be agnostic about God. The obvious existence of theism and atheism goes to show that the arguments from both sides are not convincing enough. Yet people affirm/deny God with a certainty that isn't justified. — TheMadFool
Some of us want God to exist.....Isn't this the real picture of theism? — TheMadFool
Yes, I want God to exist, but with a lot of ambivalence about which God. — Bitter Crank
Agnosticism, as far as I can tell, is equivalent to doubt. Should there be equivalent doubt about the Laws of Nature? Are those who are convinced that they exist/do not exist acting irrationally? — Rich
it would be dependent on whether his/her/it's existence would be of any use to us. — dclements
This is over simplistic. I think a God is useful, but I don't believe in God. Although perhaps I think God is useful as opposed to the alternative, no God. For I don't know what a world with no God looks like.Yes and people differ in opinion on that. The end result? Theism for those who think god is useful and atheism for those who think otherwise.
That doesn't wash because atheists have plenty of hopes and fears too.Yet, they are not compelled to be theists. — TheWillowOfDarkness
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