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Franklin Pierce College
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United States
Does God exist, yes or no, is a difficult question to answer. Personally, I'd like to think there was some being out there in the infinance of existance. Oh me of little faith. I still have yet to find a religion where God, any deity for that matter, has really meant anything to me. I've seen a lot of lucky happenings that I think I would go so far as to call miracles, but this faith thing keeps eluding me. Not just that, but all of the organized religions (and most unorganized religions) don't make any sense to me. Many religions claim that a person can see God in a good person's behavior. Oh really??? So for those of us who don't know God are acting purely for God? I don't think so. Good morals is one thing, faith is another. As Plato said, be good for its own sake. And besides, we live in a society here. We can't have people with bad morals running around or society will fall apart. It has traditionally been held that religion dictates morality. Is it no wonder that as religion declines, so do moral values? Laws of state are one way that humans adapt (thank you Darwin) to the environment. However, state laws are spiritually (in a psychological sense) unfulfilling. Thats messed up saying that God can only be seen in good people. HELLO!!! God, creator of EVERYTHING? I cannot believe in a God who created everything, yet is this supreme benevolent being. That is just hitching a ride on the fad train. We have this politically correct view of the world now. God is always right to the faithful. No, humans are always right. Humans may not be correct, but we are always right. Maybe if God were able to get back that spiteful and vengeful image from so long ago I might have a little more faith. But I guess thats me looking for plausibility as opposed to taking leaps of faith. Still, does God exist? I would have to say yes. Why you may ask? Because there are faithful in the world. As God is just the manifestation of faith, I would have to say that yes, God does exist. I know its sort of like a cheap answer akin to "I think therefore I am," well, congrats you're right, it is. I'm not supporting any faith here, I'm supporting every faith. Like I've once said earlier, the hocus pocus is different, but the results are the same. Don't worry atheists, when the believers die, God dies. So maybe those of you who bad-mouth religion should stop and think for a minute, "Was Hitler wrong?" A few of the stupid ones out there are going "Where the hell did THAT come from?" but the smart kids know. Hitler wasn't commiting genocide against the Jews, he was making an attempt at killing Yahweh, the God of the Jews. Imagine, the first person in recent history of a man slaying a God! So I ask you, atheists out to destroy God, was Hitler right? I'm hoping for a resounding no to that question mainly because, though I don't believe in God and am not the nicest, most sensitive guy in the world, killing people is wrong. Remember that little diddy up there about morality and society? I'm not saying you have to believe in God, just accept God. The concept God exists and the truth is relative. God may not exist as the believers want God to exist, but somewhere, somehow back in the corners of our collective imagination lurks God.