Who is god?

Cabaal

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/who-is-god-1.2094186

what does God mean to people in Ireland today? We went out and asked some of them.

Some interesting changes and viewpoints, I'd wager that back in 1980 pretty much everyone would have said a catholic god.

Reminds me of the story my mother told me recently, my dad only really ever did weddings, christmas etc when it came to mass. He once had a customer say to him "I wish I could be like you, I wish I didn't have to go to mass".

Thankfully that viewpoint has changed

Still scary that some people still can't accept the fact that some people simple don't believe a god exists though,

They were talking about that around the table the other day. Another sister said that he doesn’t believe in God. I said, “Ah, he just doesn’t know Him.”

Knowall Macduff

Even people who believe in fairies, santa, horoscopes have difficulty accepting that other people don't

Brian Shanahan

To answer the question posed in the thread title, I am god.

And, Cabaal, what the hell have you done with the spaceship I conned my disciple into bringing you half the way across the galaxy to deliver to me, hah?

challengemaster

Some of that is properly cringeworthy.

The times must be saving face as well - because with 50/50 atheist/agnostic, the placards don't actually read as you'd expect....

I'm rather confused by this, though

Do you believe in God? Sitting upstairs somewhere? No. We’re a tiny speck in the universe. [If he’s there] Earth and the humans are just a little hobby for him.

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What did you think of Stephen Fry? Fair play to him. He was brave, and Gaybo took it well. But it’s a narrow point of view.

InTheTrees

Doesnt it seem like a lot of "The Faithful" had (and a lot still have) no idea that a majority of us actually feel the same way Stephen Fry feels?

I think that interview came as a major shock to many of them.

magicbastarder

challengemaster wrote: »

Some of that is properly cringeworthy.

it's a fluff piece, with every possible point of view catered for. to be expected, hardly an analysis of what irish people now believe.

lynski

I have heard variation on the 'you just don't know him yet' a few times recently. It is so insulting to hear, the latest was an imam, say that someone who is atheist has just not studied or know enough to believe in a god.
Also, the same one said, in response to stephen fry, that if people have suffering in their lives it is because of something they did in the past or a choice they are making, and for children because of something their parents did. So bone cancer in children is because their parents did something God did not like, and they probably have not studied enough to believe.

Shrap

magicbastarder wrote: »

it's a fluff piece, with every possible point of view catered for. to be expected, hardly an analysis of what irish people now believe.

Every point of view? There was nobody saying "God is unnecessary".

swampgas

Surely if there really were a god out there, the question of "Who is God?" could be resolved by, you know, just asking him/her/it directly? I would have thought that a god who refuses to communicate is most likely not there at all?

It's one of those telling things - even religious people get nervous of those who claim to be "talking to God".

mikhail

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

To answer the question posed in the thread title, I am god.

It's true. I read it somewhere.

Wereghost

This guy has it wrong. John Williams is not the man; he is, an fact, God.

More pertinently, I think God at its most credible is a sentient infinitely varied entity - just like the Omniverse but with added ultimate sentience, and therefore never as good an explanation for our existence.