God count: Zero, One, or Many?

You should look up the definition of "la mauvaise foi".

Being the Creator of the universe and the Father of his Son, Jesus Christ is what makes God, God.

Wouldn't being the Creator of the universe have been enough?

Now, if that isn't the kettle not being able to see oneself in the mirror....the whole purpose of your thread is to ridicule other people for their belief - in this instance - God

from your proverbial mouth (adopting a tone of "intellectual superiority"):

"...even the small sample here indicates that believers outnumber non-believers. Obviously, those making a lot of money are suspect."

"Even mathematicians struggle a bit with "levels" of infinity. Of course, the God(s) wouldn't. It must be known how many angels can dance on a pinhead."
"How many Gods are in their collective heads, I wonder?"
"Or maybe there are billions of personal gods in peoples minds."

@tkbunny

lol

Jesus never taught this. Only later theoreticians, like the torah scholars that Jesus was averse to since they reduced god to intellecutalism, and which also Zen practitioners warn against, concocted that structure.

It is not real. God has to be found. You have to do it yourself. There is no original sin, and no one died for it. These layers of unnecessary innovation only veils you from reaching the reality of god.

Of course you are free to believe it, but it doesn't make it true.

I addressed your original topic already. All paths can lead to God, which means infinite variations of God or some form of diety. Your original question was how many Gods are there, yes? Well, I think the belief of "All paths lead to God" sums it up best. You can call Him by any name you so choose, or you can even have a belief system that exalts Mother Earth, or a volcano, or any sort of physical force on our planet, and call that a God. Throughout mankind there have been countless types of beliefs, from the ancient Greeks and their numerous Gods, each with their own special power, to singular Gods such as in Christianity and Islam and other major religions, right on down to tribes that we in the modern world have yet to encounter in still unexplored regions of the planet - Who's to say we won't make contact with such a tribe someday and discover they have 50 different dieties that they worship? It's all an unknown, so I refer back to my use of the the word infinite. All paths to God, and to each his own. 

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I remember bobyyyy. Now this guy I liked. There was no falseness or pretense in him. He just let it rip into people - called them the "god-soaked" if I recall. I appreciated his honesty.

Believing in God is not clannish tribalism.

Believing in a branded God is however. By branded, I mean - Islamic, Christian, Judaic, etc.

Crusaders of atheism should be realistic and accept the fact that the human species will always have this belief. It is there. They "feel it" - THAT QUESTION. I go back to my post #62.

The problem arises because they had provided the answer to an unanswerable question with tribalistic branded Gods.

yes, he is. Looks like godbunny is meditating there.

I didn't try to convince anyone of anything, nor was I "vehement" in any way. I was trying to have an interesting discussion.

Sounds like you found your leader!

I completely agree that atheists need to accept that there will always be "that belief" or "that question". Those that believe do indeed "feel it". Nothing wrong with that, no sir. Just like there is nothing wrong with athiests "not feeling it". But let's be realistic, folks. This argument is the never ending argument of all arguments. To acknowledge that one person's beliefs or lack of beliefs is just as valid as your beliefs or lack of beliefs is the only way to put the matter to rest, but that will never, ever happen. It's utterly IMPOSSIBLE. If I could type IMPOSSIBLE in size 1,000 font, with glowing, undulating letters, I would. This is man's greatest argument. Face it, a group of folks here on a chess website can only chime in with their opinions, or even slam others for their beliefs [or lack of]. We cannot slam down a definitive answer to anything religious on the table and say "Here ya go! I just died and was brought back to life, and here is what happened!".

This discussion reminds me of a psychological opinion I read a while back where the author brought up religion and man's need for answers. In it, he discussed how religion is and always will be the ultimate hot topic. He discussed how some people feel inside themselves strong conviction of a higher power. He then went on to discuss how some people NEED religious structure in their lives - That their mind and spirit would feel simply hopeless and pointless if they were to think "Here we are. Once we die, this is it. Blackness", and so those types cling tightly to religion as a way of dealing with the fact that eventually they will die, and they need hope of an afterlife simply to get through the day. Then he brings up the athiests, and how for some of them, they just don't care. If there is an afterlife, they'll see it when they die. If there isn't one, then why bother fussing over it and instead just live in the moment. The thoughts brought up by that psychologist were rather interesting, and made a lot of sense. His conclusion: Be your own individual. Believe what you want, or don't believe. Just live. Live the way you feel is best for you, and respect that the person next to you has the right to also live in his/her own way, with his or her own beliefs or lack of. Makes sense, doesn't it? Realistic? Absolutely not. This argument will be around long after you, me, our kids, our great grandkids and our great-great grandkids are gone. Assuming, that is, that we don't all destroy one another.

eh? what's with the personal attack, dude?

It was a joke...since the thread was about god, and following someone etc

Feufollet, you sound like Bruce Jenner.

I don't know who Bruce Jenner is.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

erm, never mind. don't answer that question

you are as dogmatic in your opinion as any religious person, and you have no evidence to support your bashing of belief

the next time a young child is badly abused you atheists cannot blame any god