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	Poll for June 06, 2003

"Do you believe in God?"

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yes

13,209 (71.9 %)

5,159 (28.1 %)

total votes : 18,368 | 20 reaction(s)

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12-06-2007 19:20 WiseOne89
66 posts	Heck yes I do. More so because of science. If the laws of science apply and something can't come from nothing, there's no WAY the universe could become what it is from squat, yet supposedly it's origin is due to the big bang. Now, what started that big bang? ^^
12-06-2007 20:16 Oskivaar
7 posts	Hell no, i refuse to believe that there is an all powerful being controlling my life. I control my life, nothing else. religion is preached by the weak minded to control the weak minded
13-06-2007 01:16 Cloudburst2
386 posts	i dont really
13-06-2007 07:49 Ice44
198 posts	WOW. Only three people reacted to this poll way back in 2003. I'd like to think that the 18 000 people who voted would have liked to have shared their opinion on the subject. And the only people to react are pretty recent. Anyways, I didn't get the opportunity to vote way back when, but I would've said no because... well I dunno really. I'm sure I've come up with lots of reasons why, but none of them can be verified as correct. I mean sure, Jesus could've lived, but he could've just tricked all the stupid guys who wrote in the bible about him and what he could "do." I do like the focus of Christianity, bettering yourself and the people around you, loving one another because we all have to share this planet together. I guess it really became evident to me that after realizing that there hasn't been any apocalypse type things happening in recent years, because human society was a lot worse back in the day, when "God" should've done something about it. Maybe he did, but we didn't notice it, maybe he slowly gave us brains through evolution and we invented technology to better our society, but has it really bettered us. Sure with better healthcare and entertainment, people can feel happier and a little safer than they did back in the day (I'm talking about like 500 years ago, back when we were all from Europe). But while television has brought the news-travelling speed to lightning fast, it has also brought on a generation of slackers, freeloaders, lethargy, and apathy. Obesity is great threat to children's health because they are sitting in front of a tv watching a program or playing videogames. Now after witnessing some really horrendous things in my life, and being a man of science and believing that there is no afterlife as well, I have to deduce that we are in fact alone in the galaxy. Unless there are Martians living in the canyons on Mars, there's probably nothing else on any of the planets or moons that can rival anything we've got on Earth as "Intelligent Life." It's very hard for a person to believe in God when there are many other religions with many other Gods. Now all of them can't be right, because some religions have their main issues against other religions. Like all that crap that's going on in the middle east. There's even religions that have higher-ups hating on the lower followers of it. My friend gave me this CNN story on it: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1868080.ece it's pretty interesting. But yeah, over there they take their religion so seriously. Ya know how much it would suck to live under a tyrannical rule like that over something you have doubts in, very much, that's how much! Do some people actually believe that there are multiple religions that are correct? I"m sorry, a magical place where all the good people go (heaven) when they die and then the complete opposite of that if you're an asshole for your life. That all just sounds a little too imaginary for me.
13-06-2007 08:12 DarXide
6,282 posts	I'd like to think that the 18,000 people who voted would have liked to have shared their opinion on the subject I'm assuming the "post comment on polls" feature didn't exist back in the twenty o' three's. Hence..
13-06-2007 08:19 Ice44
198 posts	Aww, thats actually too bad, because this is definitively a subject to discuss with many viewpoints, most wrong, but others right. Guess we'll find out when we die!
13-06-2007 10:04 lorana_elfen
63 posts	No.I can find the strength in me..I don't need to believe in somethin that u can't prove that exists...or doesn't.
13-06-2007 17:40 Sgt_Pepper
510 posts	You do know that Gravity has not been proven but we accept that it exists, So why can't people accept God. There are plenty of things that we don't understand but believe in. for example dimensions, we can only see three dimension, but we live in a universe that has at least 11 dimensions.
13-06-2007 17:43 Barakine
22,020 posts	Indeed I do.
13-06-2007 17:47 KateKateKate
5,285 posts	Yes
17-06-2007 01:18 Ice44
198 posts	Well since Sgt Pepper has never heard of Sir Isaac Newton and his three laws of planetary motion, which gives a perfectly logical explanation of gravity and it's effects on matter, especially if it's a big piece of matter, like a planet, or a small piece, like an apple. Gravity is the explanation for why planets revolve around the sun, but we don't know who or (perhaps a better phrasing) what put those planets into orbit. It could have been a very intelligent alien race that did this in the first place, or it could have just been an incredibly huge explosion (Big Bang Theory) caused by an increasingly hot temperature throughout the whole universe, much like an atomic bomb, but taking up to a few billion years to happen. I believe God was invented by people just so we don't feel so alone in the universe. People feel more comforted knowing that there's always an all-knowing being watching your every move. I'm gonna use Christianity -eventhough Roman Catholic is the biggest right now- as my example of all religions that have GOD as their master, cuz there's a few of them, and they're all basically the same. All worship the bible (both Old & New Testaments), and the teachings of Christ, but Catholics have confession. Anyways, God should be a difficult thing to believe in nowadays. Especially with Science proving that everything happens on it's accord and it's possible that a "god" doesn't control the functions of everything in the universe. It's actually quite silly that the whole concept of an all-knowing being even came to be, people never actually considered that there's always some reason why things happen or exist, they just have to answer these questions with crazy answers that can't be proven or disproved. Religion is not something I'd spend my time with in this world. I'd much rather use it for music, sports, family, and friends. I do believe however, in spite of all that I said before, that there actually was a man named Jesus Christ (or Jesus of Nazareth if you prefer), and all the good things he practiced. It's no doubt why it's still practiced in present times, and a very popular thing amongst people in the world. As for the crazy things that his Apostles wrote about him doing... I dunno. People do magic tricks all the time. Even back then, or even before then, the Egyptians had some pretty cool stuff that they used in their society, except their curses they put on the tombs have to be fake, so Jesus could've borrowed a trick or two from them, or made up some of his own. Cuz people would've fallen for that sooo easily back then.
17-06-2007 20:49 WH1
437 posts	a duh,yeah.
17-06-2007 21:14 NightHobbit
23,504 posts	a duh only applies to things if they're already concrete proof. no i don't believe in God, he is a fictional character to me.
17-06-2007 21:44 beachgirl15
3,582 posts	plain and simple, yes i do.
17-06-2007 22:06 Sgt_Pepper
510 posts	Ice44, you have a lot to learn. Gravity is only a theory. In order to prove that gravity exists you have to prove that a graviton exists, and sorry to burst your bubble but a graviton is just a hypothetical elementary particle. If it does exists, the graviton must be massless (because the gravitational force has unlimited range). So, how does gravity get out of a black hole? If gravity is mediated by a particle, (graviton), and the particle is subject to the usual limitation that nothing can travel faster than light, how do gravitons get across the event horizon? The part of the gravity of a black hole that is due to stress of space time outside the event horizon can certainly be mediated by gravitons without them needing to exceed the speed of light, but that just postpones the question: Why is space time stressed outside the event horizon, if gravitons cannot escape from it? Do they perhaps escape by Hawking-Penrose radiation? That does not seem right, because the intensity of Hawking-Penrose radiation decreases with increasing mass of the black hole. Like I have said before gravity is only a theory that has yet to be reconciled, and this question clearly shows were reconciliation maybe difficult.
18-06-2007 02:48 WH1
437 posts	Like the lady said,plain and simple.Goodnight.
18-06-2007 20:38 Ice44
198 posts	Yeah, cuz that's sure what it is, plain and simple, more like difficult and complicated. The writing's not bluntly displayed on the wall, or in a super-special book that has all the answers. Have you ever noticed how all the prophecies are flukes? Anybody could've written those stories down, and the masses just eat it up. Sgt. Pepper, I didn't mean to make it a Science debate, so I'll just say that I don't think gravity escapes from Black Holes, or even the Event Horizons surrounding Black Holes, in fact nothin can escape a Black Hole because it is so compact and such a huge piece of matter that it, itself has a lot of gravitational pull, never letting matter or radiation escape its clutches. As for the Graviton, I don't know too much about that theory, so I'll just have to take your word for it man. Maybe I'll go over to Wiki and see what it says there. Until next time!
19-06-2007 05:06 LudMan
1,092 posts	Amazing, only 28% say they don't believe in God! Now I'm thinking, well,with all the strife,negativity, and just plain "worldliness" I've noticed on a regular basis,perhaps that 28% accounts for about 98% of the normal postings here.
19-06-2007 05:16 KateKateKate
5,285 posts	84% of Canadians believe in God. They may not want to have religion present in society, you know, out in the open where they feel it causes conflict but that doesn't mean they don't believe God is there.
19-06-2007 14:02 TheAnnoyance
47,924 posts	No, i don't. The whole theory of "god" seems stupid, to me.

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