Describe the god(s) you don't believe in.

[eomer]

This isn't just for atheists, although they do have an advantage in that they don't believe in at least one more god than theists.

And please don't take the easy road, don't everyone pick Thor. Try to describe one of the gods that you don't believe in but that at least millions of other people do, let's make it interesting.

[cleanhippie]

1. All of them.

And to borrow a phrase: Were all non-believers. I just don't believe in one more god than most others.

[Turbineguy]

2. All the ancient Greek ones for a start.

They behaved too much like humans.

[LostOne4Ever]

16. Funny thing is

I think that makes them the most believable of the classic archetype of gods. It would certainly explain why the world is as messed up as it is.

[Scuba]

3. I don't believe in the gods that can't be scientifically proven to exist. Ergo, all of them.

[Xipe Totec]

5. Don't you believe in Maxwell's little daemon?

[Scuba]

12. I'll go through that door when I come to it.

[Xipe Totec]

13. Nicely done!

[Xipe Totec]

4. Xipe Totec

Xipe Totec connected agricultural renewal with warfare. He flayed himself to give food to humanity, symbolic of the way maize seeds lose their outer layer before germination and of snakes shedding their skin. Without his skin, he was depicted as a golden god. Xipe Totec was believed by the Aztecs to be the god that invented war. His insignia included the pointed cap and rattle staff, which was the war attire for the Mexica emperor. He had a temple called Yopico within the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xipe_Totec

[rug]

6. A god whose love is conditional.

[libdem4life]

7. It's the creative energy. The Chi.

[Warren Stupidity]

9. A god who won't smite my enemies or bestow great favors on me.

[missingthebigdog]

10. I don't believe in

A god that punishes children for the sins of their parents;
A god that would cast his own beloved children into everlasting fire;
A god that would allow the tragedies at Newtown, Columbine, Oklahoma City, Waco, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc.;
A god that would tolerate the acts done in his name by people like the "Reverend" Fred Phelps.

[el_bryanto]

11. I don't believe in a God that would give infinite punishment for finite sins nt

[LostOne4Ever]

17. +100 (nt)

[Phlem]

14. I believe we're to primitive to truly understand that concept.

Just look at the state mother earth is in, that's all us baby. And usually the winner's of war write the history (I'm sure to not be biased in any way).

If there were, it certainly would want us to utilize our full potential for the growth and benefit of the whole unit.

Blowing each other up and disappearing with all the money,....totally missing the point.

IMHO

-p

[Agnosticsherbet]

15. Hastur as described by August Derelth

"The Feaster from Afar, a black, shriveled, flying monstrosity with tentacles tipped with razor-sharp talons that can pierce a victim's skull and siphon out the brain."

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

21. That sounds like it would make for a great pet

Just imagine having something like that which you could send out so as to siphon out the brains of repubs.



(This is obviously in jest, I would never ever think about siphoning out the brains of repubs. After all, they don't have much worth siphoning off to begin with.
My guess is that they would also give the critter a stomach ache.)

[Agnosticsherbet]

22. I would not even wish Republicans on Hastur.

[LostOne4Ever]

18. I don't believe in any of them atm

But I actively disbelieve in:

Any god that is powerful enough to create the universe but won't raise a finger to stop all the pain and suffering in this world.
Any god that is the embodiment of an element or idea (think of your classic polytheistic god).
Any god whose existence breaks the laws of physics.

That said I can see a god like the god of Thomas Paine or Spinoza could exist, but I just don't see any evidence for either and I don't see how the latter is anything more than a "spiritual" atheism.

[eomer]

19. I not only don't believe in all gods, I don't even believe the concept of a god makes any sense.

Or to put it another way, I don't believe in abandoning science at the edges or in the gaps. Whatever we are ever able to observe, now or in the distant future, I believe we should seek an explanation for it within science. If we discover some entity that seems godlike then the definition of the universe (everything that exists) is still such that that entity is part of the universe. And the laws of nature (an explanation for how everything works) are still such that they must explain how that entity exists and works.

Or yet another way, I don't see how anyone has given a cogent explanation for how to determine that a particular entity that exists is god rather than just another ordinary (despite however extraordinary it seems to us) thing that's part of our universe.

[trotsky]

20. They're very similar to the unicorns and dragons I don't believe in. n/t