Why do we believe in God?

Faith Clips by Fr. Robert Barron
In this first question, Fr. Barron answers the most basic question of all time. To expand our knowledge about the spiritual life, we must begin with the truth. In this clip, Fr. Barron looks at how each of us is already 'wired to God'.

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[Mystagogia87]

Fr. Barron, It is possible that my desire for justice and truth and beauty comes from God. But it could also just be a result of evolution without God. If God didn't exist those desires might still be there anyway. So why not use Occam's razor in believe in the scenario that doesn't require God?

[wordonfirevideo]

@Mystagogia87 Because our sense of moral demand is not merely conditioned but properly unconditioned.

[Rocketryman]

Mr. Barron, you seem like a very nice man (should not be used as a selling point).

But what you have to say is nothing but emotional and personal opinion.

Unlike 2+2=4 <------ That is what it is, no matter how I feel or what I "feel".

[wordonfirevideo]

@Rocketryman Not so! I've proposed rational arguments. Tell me precisely where they're wrong.

[MW3Insomnia]

im an athiest and im 16. my mom and dad divorced when i was 2 and i mainly live with my mom and she is a athiest as well but i was not infuenced by her. she let me decide and go to church with my grandparents and dad. i went for about 2 years and srtill didnt find an answer. and at school when i ask kids. well y do u believe in god? its well my parents do. just because as a human we r not smart enough to understand everything doesnt mena oh there must be a god. just cuz we dont have the answer

[wordonfirevideo]

@MW3Insomnia Well, there are some answers that are available to us. One of them is this: there has to be, finally, a non-contingent ground for the contingent universe. Nothing in the universe explains itself. Everything has its being from another. Thus, nothing would exist unless the universe were, ultimately, grounded in some reality whose very nature is to be. And this is what Catholic philosophy means by "God."

[roxykattx]

@Mystagogia87

If our desire for justice were simply the product of evolution, then it would be no more than a desire. It would not be a moral imperative. It could have no authority. If our consciences tell us for example that we should not kill, that is not quite the same as wanting not to kill. If the command not to kill comes simply from genetics, then no matter how strong its emotional content, it has no true authority.

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[Stitchman3875]

@Stitchman3875 at where they are in life. A person's faith is based on their own personal histories, not the environment of where they live. Variances are always present no matter the environment. Everyone has a story that led them where they are, whether it is faith, politics, and preference. Ergo, it is not my place to judge people based on their ideas, beliefs etc. Like I said it's a long story as to my story, and I trying to condense it here for limited space. Hopefully this explains.

[Stitchman3875]

@Stitchman3875 material than pro-Catholic. But the level of tolerance I found in the Catholics, and that I didn't have to compromise intellectual ideas such as Evolution, Big Bang etc, as the Church accepts all these, I found that Catholicism was more complete. Furthermore, I saw no real reason to change because everything I wanted spiritually I found it in Catholicism. However, these are just my experiences and my path in the journey. Many people have different pathways they took to arrive

[Stitchman3875]

@Stitchman3875 in Jesus fit me best but it seemed like an incomplete theology as Born Again Christians taught it. As I researched the history of Christianity, I found that the Catholic Church was the one that goes back to the beginning of Christianity. And I decided at the time to go and convert. No friends encouraged it or anything. In fact if I was to go any place it would have been Mormon as I had more exposure to them than Catholicism at the time. Plus I was reading more Anti-Catholic

[Stitchman3875]

@Stitchman3875 and a poor excuse to justify a position. This is certainly an inauthentic way to approach. It was more, "this is what I am, and I don't care what you think of it." However, as I progressed, I saw that many of other beliefs possess a light of truth to one degree or another. The folly was as a teen, I was brought to being a Born-Again Fundamentalist. This was one that really conflicted, because I was tolerant of other people's beliefs as they were not. At the time, believing

[Stitchman3875]

@badpanda84 That is a long story, as there are many elements to dissect. I was myself was not raised in any particular religion, as such I spent a lot of my earlier years searching for what I believed. I was exposed to different New Age ideas, and even for a time declared myself to be an Atheist, though not in the Dawkins sense, as it was more from indifference to any idea. To explain it better, the evolution etc, didn't really matter, and I would have ruled it out as a coward's atheism and

[itzahazylife]

A strong adherence to the belief in God is narrow- minded. There are plenty of great things in life that make life worth living. It just takes a mind with depth. It takes a genuine curiosity for the beauty hidden in the truth of nature. The narrow-minded don't see it and are emotionally forced to invoke the supernatural.

[badpanda84]

@Stitchman3875 But just out of curoiousity why did you convert to catholism.