How many Gods are there?

SSSnail

Lifer
Nov 29, 2006
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Alright, all this talk of religion got me thinking. How many Gods are there? Which God is the right God? Suppose I don't know anything about any God, what would be the defining persuasion for me to convert to a certain religion?

I'm not a very religious person, and I'm a Buddhist by birth. Now I know Buddha is not a God, and there is a higher being than Buddha. So who is this supposed being? Is this the same God as everyone's, if there is a God?
 

IGBT

Lifer
Jul 16, 2001
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Originally posted by: SSSnail
Alright, all this talk of religion got me thinking. How many Gods are there? Which God is the right God? Suppose I don't know anything about any God, what would be the defining persuasion for me to convert to a certain religion?

I'm not a very religious person, and I'm a Buddhist by birth. Now I know Buddha is not a God, and there is a higher being than Buddha. So who is this supposed being? Is this the same God as everyone's, if there is a God?


..Allah. no other.
 

GagHalfrunt

Lifer
Apr 19, 2001
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As many as you want to believe in. If your fairy tale includes 20 gods there are 20. If your fairy tale only invents 1 then there's 1.
 

Epic Fail

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May 10, 2005
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Trick question! Gods are evolving through natural selection, the answer isn't constant.
 

imported_bum

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Jan 15, 2005
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Somebody should compile a list of all the gods that have been worshiped throughout history. It'd be a long list, I think.
 

schneiderguy

Lifer
Jun 26, 2006
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I just invented a new god, he is part cow part human. we should pray to him 9 times a day, always facing north, because he lives at the north pole with santa. who wants to join my religion!?!??!
 

preslove

Lifer
Sep 10, 2003
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Only one god, from our position. That god got REAL drunk one night and was hung over and dehydrated the next day. He got up and felt like sh!t, sratching his ass and picking his noes. He flicked a but hair laden booger onto his sofa and went to take a shower. That disgusting booger is our universe/. The flick was the big bang. God help us when he gets out of the shower and sits on his couch to watch tv.
 

Skeeedunt

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Oct 7, 2005
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Originally posted by: SSSnail
Suppose I don't know anything about any God, what would be the defining persuasion for me to convert to a certain religion?

It seems like a lot of people try to pick the religion that's "right for them".

Do any religions actually say "Hey, pick me if you dig what I'm all about"? Isn't it always just "Pick me or you're fvcked"?
 

GagHalfrunt

Lifer
Apr 19, 2001
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Originally posted by: bum
Somebody should compile a list of all the gods that have been worshiped throughout history. It'd be a long list, I think.


Millions. And the people who worshipped the now defunct gods were just as positive that their gods were real as the batch of folks worshipping the current gods. And when the current religions disappear and mankind invents new gods the people worshipping them will also be 100% sure that their cosmic muffin is the real cosmic muffin.
 
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:music:
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
:music:
 

irishScott

Lifer
Oct 10, 2006
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Depends on you. Everyone will tell you their god is right, and give you different punishments for not believing them, most of which will involve you being killed and/or sen to some sort of torture chamber for eternity.

Personally, I kinda just took Christianity and screwed with it. I admire a lot of Christian values, but I cannot accept the existence of a god that would send innocents to hell. God knows we are human, and thus are subject to mistakes.

According to Christianity, there is a "time of responsibility" when you figure out the existence of their god on your own. Period. You just figure it out. Even if you lived in a bubble with no human contact, you're supposed to figure it out. That is retarded.

That means that "Christian" rapists and murders who repent will go to heaven, along with Hitler, and heroes and people who contribute to god's creation will go to hell for not believing in him. This is also retarded and contradictory to the definition of god.

So I basically took the bible, modified Genesis a bit, and took out any passage that condemned people to hell simply for not believing in god. My god is the judge of good and evil. The good go to heaven, the evil go to hell. Those who do not have faith in my god upon their death, and are just people, are given the heavenly equivalent of a desk job, without the full bliss of living in heaven, until they repent. Those that are evil go to hell. Period.

My justification for this is that the Bible (and all holy scriptures) are supposedly the words of some god or other. But they are the words of said god translated into human language. Even Jesus spoke in a human made language. And if god is incomprehensible, how can we hope to translate his word into ours? How can anyone, even god himself?

 

irishScott

Lifer
Oct 10, 2006
21,562
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Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
:music:
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
:music:

[Bruce Almighty] :music: HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME!!! :music: [/Bruce Almighty]
 
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