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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Re: [mukto-mona] God does not need religion, religion needs God



 
Good, discussions gentlemen! Let me provide the definitions of God and god as per two dictionaries.
 
God in Oxford Dictionaries: (In Christianity and other monotheistic religions) the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority; the supreme being.
 
"God" in Merram-Webster Dictionaries: The perfect and all-powerful spirit or being that is worshipped especially by Christians, Jews, and Muslims as the one who created and rules the universe.
 
"god" in Oxford Dictionaries: (In certain other religions) a superhuman being or spirit worshiped as having power over nature or human fortunes; a deity. An adored, admired, or influential person.
 
"god" in Merram-Webster Dictionaries: A spirit or being that has great power, strength, knowledge, etc., and that can affect nature and the lives of people.  One of various spirits or beings worshipped in some religions. A person and especially a man who is greatly loved or admired.
 
To answer Jiten Roy's questions to Sanjeev Kulkarni, rational people (atheists) do not have to accept the God/god as a spirit either; they can probably accept that some people (believers) might find a way to keep themselves contented by believing such spirits. Of course, if the beliefs were kept within oneself, the imaginary character of God/god would not be much of a problem. Emphasize "oneself"; it should not include anyone else. Now, if the belief requires one to put a burqa on his wife, for example, it is a problem; it is like enslaving others for an idiotic belief.
 
It is too much of a shame for humans to accept the kinds of injustice that have been going on in the world for the nonsensical beliefs in God/god.
 
Sukhamaya Bain
 
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On Friday, December 5, 2014 10:12 PM, "Shah Deeldar shahdeeldar@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
God is simply an idea without any material basis. There are tribes in Amazonas, who have no concept of God and they are perfectly OK without that imaginary figure. It is understandable why mortal humans want to imagine a God for a secure unknown future. The question is whether anybody has secured their future yet?
-SD
 



On Thursday, December 4, 2014 8:38 PM, "Jiten Roy jnrsr53@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
Yes, Sanjeev, you need to define God first. If I say, my God has no existence, He lives in the spirit, then where the question of existence of God come from? Atheists should not have trouble accepting this God. Isn't it? 

Jiten Roy

 
From: "sanjeev kulkarni jeevkulkarni@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2014 5:08 AM
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] God does not need religion, religion needs God

 
Define god ?  Poison by any name will kill.

Sanjeev



From: "Jiten Roy jnrsr53@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
To: "mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2014 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] God does not need religion, religion needs God

 
Excellent points! I have some issue with atheism; it appears to be incomplete idea. Most atheists think they are atheist because they have rejected God, as defined in the religion. Religionists, obviously, have distorted the concept of God; they made it some kind of human-like character. First thing is to define God, then love or hate it.  
Jiten Roy
 


From: "Kamal Das kamalctgu@gmail.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] God does not need religion, religion needs God

 
Haven't the Buddhists made Buddha their supreme god? There are Amitava Buddha, the sun god with limitless radiation, Kacchapa Buddha looking like a turtle and representing the sky god, Maitreya Buddha yet to come etc. My atheism sees gods and goddesses everywhere. God, having been derived from Godde, a Persian word meaning leader, leads in every place. Religion, by definition, is something that holds together. Even communism is a religion, but atheism or agnosticism, being glue less, are not.

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On Dec 3, 2014, at 9:13 AM, "Sukhamaya Bain subain1@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
If Buddhism is considered a religion, surely God is not needed for all religions. But what is this nonsense of what God needs or does not need? The imaginary character needs whatever the believer thinks he needs. To a rational person, there is no such thing as God needing this or that.
 
I find the statement, 'Atheism itself is regarded as a religion. So Subimal Chakrabarty's atheism or my atheism or anybody else's atheism does not mean that we are all clue-less non-sensical people', totally absurd.
 
Let us look at the definition of "religion" in the Oxford Dictionaries. It is, "The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods." Atheism is probably regarded as a religion only by people, including some Christians, who cannot think beyond religions. The idea that atheists would be 'clueless and nonsensical' without accepting that their rational thoughts are also a religion sounds too ludicrous to me.
 
SuBain
 
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On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 6:26 PM, "ANISUR RAHMAN anisur.rahman1@btinternet.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
Jiten Roy is probably forgetting his own religion (if he has any), when he says religion needs God. Have you got a God or more widely, have Hindus got a God? There may be a number of gods and goddesses, but not a single all powerful, omnipotent, omnipresent God, as understood in the monotheistic religion. Buddhism does not believe in gods or goddesses. So to assert that 'religion has no existence without God' is blatantly wrong. Religion is a faith, quite often a blind faith.You can have faith in whatever you like - God or no God. Atheism itself is regarded as a religion. So Subimal Chakrabarty's atheism or my atheism or anybody else's atheism does not mean that we are all clue-less non-sensical people, as Jiten Roy claims. In fact, such egregious claim is itself devoid of sense.

- AR  

From: "Subimal Chakrabarty subimal@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2014, 0:27
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] God does not need religion, religion needs God

 
First thing first. Your account might have been hacked. I tried to contact you but I do not know your telephone number. Check on that first. 

Now with respect to your query, my short cut answer is that I am talking about the teachings of a religion. You can learn great virtues from a religion. That's why many believers are good human beings. 
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On Dec 1, 2014, at 6:20 PM, Jiten Roy jnrsr53@yahoo.com [mukto-mona] <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
Mr. Chakraborty, you cannot partially support a religion; you may partially follow a religion; in fact, most people do that. That does not mean, they have partial support for their religion. Maybe that's what you meant. Even then, you are contradicting yourself.
 
You have said in a previous post that you are an atheist for 45 years, meaning you don't believe in God. You must know - religion have no existence without God. How can you partially support religion without believing in God? You are not making sense here.
 

God is a metaphysical concept; God does not need religion, religion needs God, meaning one can believe in God without religion, but the reverse logic is not true. 

Deepak Chopra in a recent article discussed how: Physics needs God, but God does not need physics. The concept of God is the same, whether it is in physics or religion. You can find his article in the following link:


Religionists have given a distorted view of God. Enlightened people should not get swayed by such distortion.

Jiten Roy
















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