Does intuition favor God's existence?

[odeon]

Religion is actually based on fear.

Basic fear of God, right?

Actually just fear of the unknown, to start with.

Who would not be afraid of a God who decides to sacrifice his own son just to make the point that he can do this as often as he wishes.

That sacrifice is sort of interesting, though. It's not really a sacrifice if the guy is still around, is it? Easier to make that kind of point when you know that your superpowers are enough to fix the problem later.

While we both know that many myths are based upon some distortion of fact,  where the hell did these people (who have burned others at the cross) decide that, instead of a kind and benevolent God or gods, such as most seem to worship, their God should speak in terms of boiling brimstone and hellfire.

Every pagan form of religion has a nice god for every harsh god just to keep a balance in nature. WTF is this whole one God does everything and he is terribly jealous and ridiculously vengeful, bullshit?

Oh shit, forgot to mention, the "Savior/Risen Son of God" sounds like a Zombie, by most definitions.  Go figure.

Basically, that vengeful and harsh god is central to the concept of fear. You don't fear the unknown if the unknown poses no significant threat to you.

[earthboundmisfit]

I do not need the threat of eternal damnation from an omnipotent power to be a decent human being. If one needs religion to tell them not to kill other people, cheat on their spouses, or steal, then those people are psycho/sociopaths and need to be locked up away from normal functioning society.

[odeon]

Nah. I think that quite a few people need a set of rules to stop them, religious or otherwise. Human beings are, IMHO, not inherently moral or good.

[awiddershinlife]

I like having a God to talk things over with. I noticed that all religions just make up their own god. They have gods who only want them to worship on Saturdays, Gods who want them to avoid pork and seafood, gods who want them to turn the other cheek and gods who want an eye for an eye.

So I made up my own God.

My own God promotes kindness and love, yet gives me lots of practice to say "no". My own God reprimands me for being bitchy, but wants me to be assertive (and sends opportunity for me to practice that too). My God is giving me time to figure out the complexities of when good is bad and bad is good. Last night my God made sure I had enough gas to make the trip from Flagstaff to Silver City even though I should have filled my tank in Springerville - a total miracle! My God throws lots of difficulties my way to practice what I need to learn, but helps me get through it alive and sane.

I really love having my God in my corner.

If you want to know more about intuition, turn to neuroscience. Good intuition is the definition of wisdom and is the result of deep experience in the area that one is intuitive about. You can become intuitive without my God your yours.

[ZEGH8578]

When you talk to your own god, you are talking internally. That is what most religious people don't think they do, they think they talk externally, to someone outside their own head, even while they are constructing god's own answers - in their head!

[Jack]

When you talk to your own god, you are talking internally. That is what most religious people don't think they do, they think they talk externally, to someone outside their own head, even while they are constructing god's own answers - in their head!

Yes, that's what believers consider the conscience, god speaking to them.

[odeon]

OMG, the voices in my head are gods? And here I was, thinking I'm going crazy.

[DirtDawg]

OMG, the voices in my head are gods? And here I was, thinking I'm going crazy.

Crazy?  Really?

I just thought I was smarter than everyone else.

 

[Jack]

OMG, the voices in my head are gods? And here I was, thinking I'm going crazy.

The same could be said for people who believe in a psyche or soul, free will and what dictates it, self-god. Then again all matter of philosophy is like that at its core, all something or nothing but still very similar in that way.

[awiddershinlife]

I figured since every religion makes up god based on themselves (some believe god has to be worshiped on Sunday, others Saturday, some believe an eye for an eye, others turn the other cheek, etc...), there is nothing stopping me. I have my own God and own religion. No one else need apply.

However, this has nothing to do with intuition. Intuition is the ability to decide based on rapid unconscious processing of experience. No God needed.

[odeon]

Yeah, Christians say god made us in his image but it's the other way around.

[renaeden]

OMG, the voices in my head are gods? And here I was, thinking I'm going crazy.

As I have written before: If you talk to god, you're praying. If god talks to you, you're schizophrenic.

[Jack]

OMG, the voices in my head are gods? And here I was, thinking I'm going crazy.

As I have written before: If you talk to god, you're praying. If god talks to you, you're schizophrenic.

Preachers often say god speaks to them.

[odeon]

If there is a god, are the humans voices in his head?

[ZEGH8578]

If there is a god, are the humans voices in his head?

That would explain a lot