actually, he's not a figment of my imagination, because i know he does not exist. in order for god to be a figment of my imagination, i would have to believe he exists.

 

"i know he does not exist"

and how do you know?

 

my explanations will fall on deaf ears.

 

I'm listening/reading.

 

and blind eyes.

 

To say God does not exist because you cannot prove his existence is ignorance. Unless of course you are the one person that can prove he truly does not exist. If you do not believe in God, or Allah, or Budha, or the Prophet Muhammed are you an athiest? If you are not an athiest then what or whom do you believe in?

 

agnostic is an option as well...

 

yes, saying god doesn't exist is rather ignorant.....

the problem is we're conditioned as a society to beleive in a human-like god.

nono, this is not the right way to look at things.

I'll still hold my claim to christianity and still say this:

God is not human, nor would he/she/it/whatever resemble one.

God made us in his image by giving us minds. That is what makes us different from animals (that, and apposable thumbs, but I think that was a evolutionary step that lead to the strengthining of our brains. I mean, shit, the brains a muscle. If we have thumbs and can make tools, then we'd start working our minds more, which then snowballs to today. Thus we're still evolving)

so we're all looking at the same world, but looking at it from a different veiw point. Again, let me pull my circle thought up. They have an infinate number of points. circles are very universal. They're everywhere. They allow us to move our cars, they allow us to eat food with ease (pizza? burgers?), they're the sun and the moon and the planets.

God is all. God is beauty, uglyness, happyness, sadness, Art, and everything else in between.

saying he doesn't exist is like saying the sun doesn't shine. Why are we here? What porpous do we serve? Where did this all start? And where will this end?

I'm not saying go to god. It'll find you eventually. But at least you're on the right path (I once said the same things, that there is no god. looking back, wtf was I thinking)

 

Howso? Compairing your god to sunshine is rather ignorant, of course sunshine is there. We can see it, feel it, measure it, it is energy that obviously exists.

You guys seem to be thinking a little backwards. Saying that we cannot prove he doesn't exist is absurd.

How do I prove that there is no money in my wallet? I show you my empty wallet, done.

How do I prove there is no god? Well, look around. See a god? Feel a god? Can you measure god? No. He doesn't exist.

If you need religion as your crutch, go right ahead. Just don't call others ignorant for not sharing your blind outdated faith.

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx

 

Maybe God is something that you cannot see, feel or measure? Maybe God is not quantifiable? I cannot say what God is because I have never met him personally (assuming he is a man or of human form at all) nor have I ever been in the presence of God that I know of. Like 18sec said, and we are agreeing once again, in is pure ignorance to say something does not exist when you do not even know what that something is.