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Why Do We Believe in GOD

J. Anderson Thomson gave this lecture at the Washington & Lee Law School on October 15, 2008.  
 
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xephyr1000 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Religious Belief is a mind parasite! Perfect ;)
junkyardpolester (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Why do we NOT believe in God?
Because there is NO GOD! Religion and the "concept of God" are an intense and expansive waste of human thought, And this is not an "extraordinary piece of cognitive software"!!
AndreaZ64 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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craigMellow, thanks for making this lecture available.
Venaloid (5 months ago) Show Hide
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I don't see why not.
fairbanksGMAN (5 months ago) Show Hide
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i always go back to looking at the natural world around us. it is just too amazing, and complex, and wonderful for me to believe that it all just came about from a large explosion a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.




God created everything.
whether you believe it or not.

at least that's what i think.
Venaloid (5 months ago) Show Hide
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By the same reasoning, God is too amazing, and complex, and wonderful for him to have simply always existed with no construction or guidance and for me to believe that he himself had no creator.
fairbanksGMAN (6 months ago) Show Hide
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ok, so let me get it straight. ............
all the BILLIONS of people on earth who believe in God, or some higher power, are basically pretty much a bunch of idiots.

is that right?
at least according to this guy. this "professor"
this 1 man

really?
a42579 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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They aren't idiots, they are just ignorant. It's just like how people who smoke 'think' they want another cigarette when actually it's just the nicotine.
Venaloid (5 months ago) Show Hide
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The billions of people are all people (that is to say they are human) and have remarkably similar brains that are susceptible to these ideas that utilize other mechanisms in the brain to solidify their hold on a person.
calpurnpiso (7 months ago) Show Hide
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@nbvle1919

What part of We create Belief in God ( the mind) with our brains didn't you understand?

BTW we are in the 21st century not the 12th. Belief in imaginary friends aka god, satan, spirits & other irrational fairy tales as TRUE when one is an educated adult, is sign of neurological malfunction like schizophrenia, temporal lobe epilepsy...also microdeletion or duplication of genes like 17q21.31 or 15q24 which causes retardation. Christianity & theism?

Don't forget the BRAIN-R-Us.

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