Why do we need a god?

Why do we need a god? Buddhists manage OK without one.

Well Really we don't need a god..

What people do need is comfort and to most that means believing in some made up diety to help them get through life and not die in fear of there being nothing after this life..

Why do we need a god? Buddhists manage OK without one.

Technically budhists don't have a deity but the budha is pretty much one and budhism has all the ingredients of a religion. So I'm going to disagree with you on that one.

Now then atheists, they don't have a god.

The reason people need religion is to cope with the certainty that everything is utterly pointless and to help their tiny minds (we all have tiny minds) cope with the enormous complexity, illogicalness and unfairness of existence. Without it we only have nihilism.

Arrogance lol.

Like every other creature on this planet, when we are gone that's it. It is an arrogance to think that we are so special that there is something more for us when we are gone.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust!

Arrogance lol.

 

Like every other creature on this planet, when we are gone that's it. It is an arrogance to think that we are so special that there is something more for us when we are gone.

 

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust!

I'd says its just wishful thinking really. We are the only creature to have the intelligence to understand that we exist and therefore to have fear of that existence ending.

The sooner people realise that man made gods not vise versa the better.Thankfully christianity is on the way out here,going the same as the greek gods etc.

Why do we need an answer, or explaination?

We don’t need a God when living with youth and good health but when we are old and ill most people suddenly decide that they do need God after all.

Why do we need an answer, or explaination?

Because it's inherent in the human condition to look for reasons, to find patterns, to try and explain the unknowable.

I would love to know how everything is as it is,waldo.I do not hold with the supernatural answer,but science will eventually supply the answer long after I've gone.

Arrogance lol.

 

Like every other creature on this planet, when we are gone that's it. It is an arrogance to think that we are so special that there is something more for us when we are gone.

 

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust!

For God sake cheer up a bit.

The sooner people realise that man made gods not vise versa the better.Thankfully christianity is on the way out here,going the same as the greek gods etc.

https://www.thoughtco.com/christianity-statistics-700533

"In the last 100 years, the number of Christians in the world has quadrupled from about 600 million in 1910 to more than 2 billion presently. Today, Christianity is the world's largest religious group. According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, in 2010, there were 2.18 billion Christians of all ages living in the world.

Worldwide Number of Christians

Five years later, in 2015, Christians still comprise the largest religious group in the world (with 2.3 billion adherents), representing nearly a third (31%) of the total global population.

US adherents - 247 million in 2010

UK adherents - 45 million in 2010"