Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 6:20 am
godelian wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 4:30 am
Age wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 2:21 am
1. Do you believe God exists?
Yes. However, I can also understand why other people don't believe it.
There are many reasons why non-theists do not believe in God.
What is your understanding why other people don't believe it?
I used to be a theist but have now graduated to be a non-theist based on incremental knowledge of life.
LOL 'graduated'.
This one 'changed' from having and holding 'one belief' to having and holding onto 'another belief'. While never recognizing that it could never ever back up nor support 'either believe' based upon any actual Real and True thing.
It, like the others here, just 'believe' one or another thing 'is true' because of having to endure through very misguided and abusive upbringings, hitherto.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 6:20 am
I believe theism is a critical necessity for the majority [AT PRESENT only] given the current state of evolution of the mind of the majority.
So, to this one anyone, 'each person' has their 'own mind'. But, then there is, supposedly, also 'the mind of the majority'.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 6:20 am
The default of evolution at present is theism which is a critical necessity for the
majority at present.
'Evolution' does not have a 'default', which differs at different 'periods of time'.
The word 'evolution', at its most fundamental, just refers to 'change', itself.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 6:20 am
Theism is necessary to modulate an inevitable existential crisis and dilemma, i.e. the critical necessity to fear death to facilitate at least till to reproduce the next generation but unfortunately for humans only, they are endowed with the knowledge of the certainty of mortality; this dilemma create a cognitive dissonance.
Even the claim 'the certainty of mortality' is False and Wrong. Which, again, is another Fact that can be, very easily and very simple, proved True.
But, and once more, only to those who are Truly curios and Truly interested.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 6:20 am
This contradiction and dilemma is resolved easily with theism, i.e. believe, and viola one is saved immediately to go on with life to reproduce the next generation.
So, 'now', again to this one only, one can only 'reproduce' when 'one believes'.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 6:20 am
But theism has its side effects and is merely a temporary solution while humans are evolving towards malignant non-theism proper.
This one actually believes that when it adds the word 'proper' onto a term or phrase then by doing so makes the term or phrase more real or more true.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 6:20 am
While theism provide instant relief to the cognitive dissonance of the individual, it has the disadvantage by the holy texts and believers of Islam in exterminating the human species where nuclear deterrent has no impact; it is a lose-win situation for the Muslims because they are assured of a place in heaven regardless of what happened to all humans on Earth.
I do not need to say anything more here, do I?
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 6:20 am
Most of All other religions are pacifist in nature.
This one, still, cannot comprehend and understand that the words 'killing people' could actually mean completely different things to what it 'now' 'currently' believes.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 6:20 am
Non-theism
proper [not the malignant kind] will ensure humanity resolve the present terrible situation in a win-win situation with the gradually improvement in rationality, intelligence and wisdom.
The problem is it will take time for majority of theists to graduate to non-theism but there are already progress since 100 years ago as indicated by the increasing % of non-theists at present.
So, if the claim that there is an increasing percent of so-called "non-theists" and war, or the fear of war, is increasing, 'at present', then what does this, really, mean, or equate to, exactly?
Not that you "veritas aequitas" would ever clarify here.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 6:20 am
Why theism has to be devolved and reduced in the future is because humanity are now more aware of the threats to humanity of a galactical scale, i.e. a potential galactical threat from a rogue meteor, pollution of the Earth, Earth moving closer to the Sun, and other global threats which theism is a hindrance to their solutions.
Is a threat of nuclear strikes on earth, by "non-thiests" or adult human beings, not on a so-called 'galactic scale', to you, like the 'pollution on earth' cause by all adult human beings?