[Discussion] How would you react if God(any) didn't exist?

[ZK]

I can understand the excitement of a good debate, as well as the opportunity to try and prove your home-developed theory. And that works for anything other than religion. Do you want to know how I see religious debates ? Like this :

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With that in mind is there really a point for having these debates? A debate thread gets closed, another one is started. Blame me for being pissed at that. You can debate politics, anime, movies. But while discussing religion someone is likely to get offended. I've refrained from posting in a religious thread for months. Eventually, I couldn't bare with people being so stubborn and pointlessly spamming the forum with this kind of threads. It's like a fish trying to climb a tree. It's pretty obvious he can't climb a tree, but he still tries, for no apparent reason.

We both know that nobody is going to prove anything here on NB, but that doesn't make entire topic useless. Argumentation, probablity, scenarios, etcetera, we all have different points of view and I see no reason to stop sharing those, just as I don't see a reason to stop reading and replying to these threads.
While I do find certain replies in these thread less convincing than others, for example:

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God is real

(it might as well have been the opposite, the point remains)
I don't think the discussion is useless. While your picture does provide with a good feeling of how the debate fuctions for the majority, some people are actually open to what other people write and share. You only have to be open and read their posts thorugh. What we need in this section is for people to think about their replies and give them a bit more meat before they post them.
Just as very few will convince each other of their political views, very few will convince each other of religious points, but that doesn't make any of those not worth the attempt.
I'd just really like for you to not contribute to the personal insults and so on, but, for my sake, you're welcome to continue your personal discussion through VM's. The more we all argue in the threads, the less seriousness these threads will retain.
Again, think before you post, people! ^_^

 

[Avani]

The moment you guys started to preach each other and question each other's opinion on the actual thread topic the thread became off topic and derailed.

Just one more thread on the pile where mention of God pushes people out of control whether they believe in Him or not.