Guess who doesn't believe in God?

Netscape ^ | 11/2/03 | Netscape News

[truth_seeker]

"Explain the analogy. I don't follow."

Years ago, I posed the question to a Jewish associate: Is Jewishness a race, or a religion, or a country, or a culture?

He replied it could be any of them. Years later, I view Jews as once being a "race" whereby many have wandered far.

To many of them it remains also their religion, but not for all. It is possible in that faith to be aetheist or agnostic--the search being the essence.

Today there are Jews for Christ, and non-religious Jews.

So my poor analogy sought to broaden "Jewishness" beyond simply the religious aspect. I think for many, it is also culture above religion. For others, it is country above all.

I am not Jewish, and claim to know very little about them, but I have respect for them. They have put up with more than a fair share of sh!t down through the ages.

[RantEng]

>>What is imporatnt is how popular you are with God.

>I'm agnostic, but one of my favorite lines from a book is from Stephen King's "The Stand". Nick Andros, a young deaf mute, is telling an old religious woman (Mother Abagail) that he doesn't believe in God. She laughs and answers "That don't matter! He believes in YOU."

I heard someone once say: "It doesn't matter what you believe. It is 'what is true' that is important."

[GSWarrior]

I've always thought that 'Do you believe in God?' misses the whole point.

The question is: Do you choose to live your life in accordance with God's plan?

[desertcry]

How can one go to heaven, if one does not know it exists, or refused to know it exists. It's however very interesting that the percentage of people believing in God and heaven jumps as one gets older. Could believing in God as they approach the end be using it as a just in case justification. The insurance premium is cheap enough, it's the best bargain in the Universe. The cost is zero, and the pay off is infinite. Lets see, the payoff-cost ratio is: zero/infinity. I wonder what the resulting number is, anyway, it's not a bad bargain at all.