Anonymous
05/07/2026 10:29
Subject: Re:How can rational people believe in any religion?
It’s very doubtful that physics persuaded you in any way, but against religion
Anonymous
05/07/2026 04:26
Subject: How can rational people believe in any religion?
Most people join religions for social reasons. It gives them a community and identity. Most members don't really believe all the dogma, they just believe the parts that are helpful. I went to church for years and never believed Most of it.
Anonymous
05/07/2026 03:58
Subject: How can rational people believe in any religion?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Physics of the big bang persuaded me. I am a published research scientist. Many of my colleagues were similarly persuaded by the math.
Persuaded you to do what?
Believe in God.
What is your area of expertise?
Physics.
How did the math/physics persuade you to believe in god(s)?
PP is trolling you.
Anonymous
05/06/2026 20:25
Subject: How can rational people believe in any religion?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Physics of the big bang persuaded me. I am a published research scientist. Many of my colleagues were similarly persuaded by the math.
Persuaded you to do what?
Believe in God.
What is your area of expertise?
Physics.
How did the math/physics persuade you to believe in god(s)?
Anonymous
05/06/2026 20:05
Subject: How can rational people believe in any religion?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Physics of the big bang persuaded me. I am a published research scientist. Many of my colleagues were similarly persuaded by the math.
Persuaded you to do what?
Believe in God.
What is your area of expertise?
Physics.
Anonymous
05/06/2026 08:24
Subject: How can rational people believe in any religion?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Physics of the big bang persuaded me. I am a published research scientist. Many of my colleagues were similarly persuaded by the math.
Persuaded you to do what?
Believe in God.
What is your area of expertise?
How did the math/physics persuade you?
The post you are responding to is troll-y BS. If they had an answer to your question it would have been provided as part of the original response.
Anonymous
05/06/2026 07:38
Subject: How can rational people believe in any religion?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Physics of the big bang persuaded me. I am a published research scientist. Many of my colleagues were similarly persuaded by the math.
Persuaded you to do what?
Believe in God.
What is your area of expertise?
How did the math/physics persuade you?
Anonymous
05/06/2026 06:58
Subject: How can rational people believe in any religion?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Physics of the big bang persuaded me. I am a published research scientist. Many of my colleagues were similarly persuaded by the math.
Persuaded you to do what?
Believe in God.
And from there you decided to believe in one of these old religions that have no rationality to them? Believing in a higher power to explain the God of the Gaps or the start of the universe is one thing. Believing in an obviously man made religion is another.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 17:46
Subject: How can rational people believe in any religion?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Physics of the big bang persuaded me. I am a published research scientist. Many of my colleagues were similarly persuaded by the math.
Persuaded you to do what?
Believe in God.
Anonymous
05/05/2026 11:24
Subject: How can rational people believe in any religion?
Anonymous wrote:I agree with the PPs. It’s not rational. It’s about love and hope and faith. Believing in God makes my heart happy, and religious practice gives me a place to put that spirituality. As I told my very atheist dad - I’d rather be hopeful and wrong than not have hope and be right. It’s ok if it doesn’t feel the same to you.
So believing in religion, makes your heart happy? That’s your rationale? Your only rationale?
Anonymous
05/05/2026 10:51
Subject: Re:How can rational people believe in any religion?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How can non-religious people believe:
- Something arose from nothing
- Order emerged from chaos
- Life arose from non-life
- The personal arose from the non-personal
- Reason emerged from non-reason
- Morality arose from matter
Where did god come from?
You really think that a topic debated by theologians, philosophers, academics, etc, for hundreds/thousands of years is going to be answered definitively here on dcum?
If the earlier question posed was “how can you believe something arose from nothing” this would be the related question for believers.
Why ask it of others if you can’t answer for yourself?
I didn’t ask that question.
Atheists don’t have the answers either; they don’t know something arose from nothing.
I’m an atheist and I don’t know where I arose from but I can’t see that the bible or any other religious doctrine is reasonable.
Me neither
Anonymous
05/04/2026 23:53
Subject: Re:How can rational people believe in any religion?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How can non-religious people believe:
- Something arose from nothing
- Order emerged from chaos
- Life arose from non-life
- The personal arose from the non-personal
- Reason emerged from non-reason
- Morality arose from matter
Where did god come from?
You really think that a topic debated by theologians, philosophers, academics, etc, for hundreds/thousands of years is going to be answered definitively here on dcum?
If the earlier question posed was “how can you believe something arose from nothing” this would be the related question for believers.
Why ask it of others if you can’t answer for yourself?
I didn’t ask that question.
Atheists don’t have the answers either; they don’t know something arose from nothing.
I’m an atheist and I don’t know where I arose from but I can’t see that the bible or any other religious doctrine is reasonable.
Anonymous
05/04/2026 23:50
Subject: How can rational people believe in any religion?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t there only be one religion if religion is real?
Why would this be true?
If you mean "Shouldn't there only be one *true* religion?" Then yes. We agree. Like most religious people, I believe that mine is the only true one. Most religions make exclusive truth claims.
Can you rationalize this for me pls? If your religion is true how do you square this in your mind that other people’s religion is not?
Anonymous
05/04/2026 10:15
Subject: How can rational people believe in any religion?
Anonymous wrote:The Physics of the big bang persuaded me. I am a published research scientist. Many of my colleagues were similarly persuaded by the math.
Persuaded you to do what?
Anonymous
05/04/2026 09:55
Subject: How can rational people believe in any religion?
The Physics of the big bang persuaded me. I am a published research scientist. Many of my colleagues were similarly persuaded by the math.