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god?

  • 10-02-2009 12:23AM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭


    do you believe in a god?

    do you believe in god? 162 votes

    yes
    0% 0 votes
    no
    27% 45 votes
    i believe in a higher force
    72% 117 votes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    No, of course not.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 862 ✭✭✭cautioner


    Gotta have a friend in Jesus.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    no, and i expect this poll to confirm my belief that god does not exist in our generation for the most part, and it's only going to get better* from now on


    *please note that by "better" i mean less and less people are going to be brought up as believers of a religion they were born into, and hopefully catholicism, or at least it's form at present, will die out. however, i am not against religion, each to their own, and i'm not interested in a theological debate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Logic > fairytales

    That's a No.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭cocoa


    wait, you didn't specify the rules of this referendum. What happens when we refuse to pass your so-called god treaty? Will he stop bothering us or just ask for another poll? =P


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


    Nope. The concept just makes no sense to me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 862 ✭✭✭cautioner


    Catholicism = no.

    Biology, however = there is something...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


    This post has been deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    Growing up in a house with 2 religions, how could I believe in a god!

    So its a no from me too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


    This post has been deleted.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    Adam wrote: »
    no, and i expect this poll to confirm my belief that god does not exist in our generation for the most part, and it's only going to get better* from now on


    *please note that by "better" i mean less and less people are going to be brought up as believers of a religion they were born into, and hopefully catholicism, or at least it's form at present, will die out. however, i am not against religion, each to their own, and i'm not interested in a theological debate.

    Oh yes, a small collective of computer nerds will confirm our generation religious affiliation!

    A surprising number of my year are quite religious, I however am not.

    I dont however dislike religion, I just think theists are a little mis-guided, and im sure they think the same about me!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭anladmór


    yeah you have to remember we're a different demographic. in ireland just because teens have access to internet does not make them really aware.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Fad wrote: »
    Oh yes, a small collective of computer nerds will confirm our generation religious affiliation!

    A surprising number of my year are quite religious, I however am not.

    I dont however dislike religion, I just think theists are a little mis-guided, and im sure they think the same about me!
    i think you're a little misguided if you consider the majority of boards.ie users to be "computer nerds"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Awful lot of heathens up in this joint....


    I said no


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭mardybumbum


    May I ask what a "higher force" is?????


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭anladmór


    who is the non-conformist who voted ''yes''?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    The question is phrased pretty loosely but I believe the OP was asking do you believe in a god as defined by an organised religion-ie do you believe in the literal existence of Jesus Christ, Allah, Vishnu, Thor, Whateveryou'rehavingyourself (one of the lesser known gods there); or do you reject the idea of those gods but believe that the world and the human race was created by or is observed by a being which occupies a different plane of existence to us-ie are you "spiritual" but not religious; or do you believe in diddly-squat.

    Amazing the ****e I'll type when I'm supposed to be doing something else


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    anladmór wrote: »
    who is the non-conformist who voted ''yes''?

    Emomatt15, has to be!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    Adam wrote: »
    i think you're a little misguided if you consider the majority of boards.ie users to be "computer nerds"

    I think you're a little misguided taking me seriously.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Fad wrote: »
    I think you're a little misguided taking me seriously.
    oh i'm sorry, was there a part of your post that was intended as humour? hmm, i must have missed that part...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    i know the australian census has showed that today's generation are more likely to be better educated, and to not be religious.

    hopefully those trends are true for ireland as well, i'd imagine so. i know a hell of a lot more of my peers are atheist as opposed to what my parent's peers would have been.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    I believe that there is a higher power.
    I don't follow any organised religion but I am not an atheist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭takola


    I believe that there is a higher power.
    I don't follow any organised religion but I am not an atheist.

    What he said.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    I'm nothing really...I'm definitely not religious, but I'm not an atheist who worships at the altar of Richard Dawkins either...I think it's incredibly arrogant to say you *know* if there is a higher power/deity or not so I go with agnosticism and don't let the question of religion bother me much. I'd be leaning on the side of atheism though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    Leaving Cert Religion has made me think about things like this alot, my actual belief has shifted quite a bit in the last two years, due to a variety of factors. But RE kinda got me thinking about things. I like the course quite alot, which I didnt expect.........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭cocoa


    Piste wrote: »
    I'm nothing really...I'm definitely not religious, but I'm not an atheist who worships at the altar of Richard Dawkins either...I think it's incredibly arrogant to say you *know* if there is a higher power/deity or not so I go with agnosticism and don't let the question of religion bother me much. I'd be leaning on the side of atheism though.

    Actually Richard Dawkins agrees that we cannot know for sure, but thinks it's highly unlikely. It is rather unfortunate and sad the way he's turned into something of an anti-preacher and people end up taking his word as fact instead of thinking for themselves.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Yeah, there's many times more zealous, evangelical-style Atheists around than believers. I think religion has taken such flak over the past few decades, plus different religious communities have been forced to interact, plus scientific advances have undermined so many of organised religions' previous certainties, that religious people are more likely to take a more relativist, humble attitude to the whole thing than atheists are, because science is currently accepted as fact by the vast majority of the population.

    Yeah you still meet the odd religious nut, and it's irritating when someone starts quoting Leviticus at you instead of having a rational debate, but somebody having faith really doesn't bother me as much as it seems to do a LOT of atheists. Dawkins, or more specifically his fanboys, piss me off something rotten.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭cocoa


    Agreed, you can get annoying people / idiots on both sides :) It seems generalisations will fail every time :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    cocoa wrote: »
    Agreed, you can get annoying people / idiots on both sides :) It seems generalisations will fail every time :)

    666th post


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


    Yeah, there's many times more zealous, evangelical-style Atheists around than believers.
    Lol, maybe on the internet.

    Dawkins doesn't really annoy me. His manner gives off an air of arrogance, but I think what he's doing is great. Interpreting what he does as a smug attack on religion is missing the bigger picture. The point is that he provokes the ordinary, unthinkingly religious person to reconsider their faith, shows those who've been struggling with their faith that it's ok to be an atheist, and generally presents atheism as a valid world view.


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