hamato_yoshii;1262509; said:It sounds like you are playing both sides of the fence here. You dont believe in God because you dont think any one has ever seen Him, but your also saying that people are being stubborn because they wont believe that there could be something bigger and smarter than themselves.
Oh, and I dont want to be the derail-er but be careful to just accept the notion that there is no evidence for God, or that a belief in God is factless. This is simply not true. You did say the "majority" of religions, so I wont put words in your mouth as to which specific one(s) you are speaking of though, because there certainly are a bunch of them.
I can see why you would think that I am contradicting myself. However, I am talking about two aspects of the term "superior being". One, I am refering to an actual living, breathing life form. The other is a "spirit" (for lack of a better term). I think the term God is inserted whenever an unexplainable question is asked(like most of the questions in this thread). It is a way to give people a positive feeling about their existence. People seem to need that security. This is why people turn to organized religion. It has all the answers. This type of self brainwashing is why I say that people would have a hard time knowing that they wern't on top of the universe.
This is all not to mention all the different religions that there are. A lot of them contradict each other. Who is to say which one (if any) is really right? If one is right, what is going to happen to all the people outside that religion? Are they all going to burn in the hell of someone else's religion?
