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Originally Posted by Akashic_Librarian  I want an intelligent discussion on why people think a God or power external to them, exists. What is the cause of it, and is there anyway to retain these beliefs, but avoid the negativeside effects like Terrorism, unwanted births etc...etc. |
Each person is different. Some of my friends believe because, as they say "I have no option". Not meaning they'd be lost without a divine creature... They saw something paranormal happen (my husband one of them), and they had to open their minds to the beliefs. Educated people don't blindly believe in the God of the Bible, which is a representation of what humans consider it would be. They know that if such a God exists, it would be unfathomable for them. They believe because they've seen things that cannot be explained by physics. One of them, by the way, is a physic investigator in the National Accelerators Centre of my country.
God as in the Bible is a creation of humans. Why some people go back to the idea, I don't know. I think some of them have it inside their genes. Educated believers, even the ones who have been educated by atheists and got to believe later, have something common in their personality... At least the ones I know. I'd call it "inner peace". They are generally extremely good-natured. (I know all believers are not like this, but I'm talking about the guys I know... I don't mix with fanatics, so I don't know many of them).
Some others, the fanatics, I suppose that they feel lost and need to have some compass in their lives, so they give themselves to organized institutions who tell them what they've got to do. But I've never talk with them closely, so I don't know. I don't know why a rich Bin Laden would wake up a fanatic one day; just as I don't know why a rich posh guy in my country would wake up some day and become a priest to go work on a mission in Brazil. But I bet everyone has their own reasons. I don't think you'd find two of them with the same one. That's why I think some people are... prone to be believers. I don't know how to explain it, but I think it's that way. I think most of them had it inside, someway.