So here's my question: how many of You believes in religious way in something/someone (I mean here some Godlike being). I noticed that most (around 99%) tech people I know in-person do not believe in God or any other supernatural being.
Besides believing, are You participating in all ceremonies (e.g. as a Christian going to church every sunday etc.) ?
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#2I kind of see logic or the laws of nature as being "higher forces," but I can't bring myself to believe in sky wizards, ghosts, time travel, psychic powers, and the like.
As a philosophy major, I think something dissuading me from the religious persuasion is that most attempts to define/describe God are either different kinds of logical games (God = Beauty; this is what beauty is; therefore, god is // God = Perfection; this is what perfection is; etc // God = Nature, Light, Truth, etc etc) or completely illogical ones (The Bible says that God is true, so he must be!).
The Problem of Evil, in particular, sways me from placing faith in a god like the Christian one.
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#3Yes,I do believe in the God of heaven. I've read the Bible practically as I learnt to read, and found the Church failed to teach the Bible as it is, but is standing on the sand of human thoughts and traits.. I still read the Bible a lot in case I'd been misguided by my own thoughts but as I found too many lies I resigned the Lutheran Church and joined the SeventhDayAdventists. ..but after it was evident I really know what the Bible says I was promoted to teach them the Bible. After several years I found the people in SDA Church have even more sinister measures than my former Church I got greatly disappointed to human established and maintained Churches and as the Bible says, if any of you are gathered in the name of the Saviour, He is among them. I have some guys believing mostly as I do so that is the only Church I need.
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#4I am starting my own religion!
If that doesn't sound crazy enough, see its commandments: 1. You should know that God doesn't exist. 2. But you may ask god to help you do things that you think are somewhat out of your control. Eg: Please God, give me a good GPA this semester. 3. You have to acknowledge that just saying stuff won't actually make it happen, but doing it might. 4. You may or may not fight self righteous wars in favor of this religion.
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#5Personally I am still open to persuasion. However I am greatly disappointed when people say they have found God when all they have done is join a religion.
Finding God seems more of a life's work rather than "read this, wear these and you are good to go"
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#6An actual poll seems to be missing here, so I'll just add my comment.
I am a practicing Mormon (member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), and do in fact believe in God and the specific doctrines of my religions. I go to church every Sunday, pray and read the scriptures regularly, and plenty of other things besides. The majority of tech people I know in person are also religious, although I am very well aware that this is largely due to selection effects in my choice of friends and places of employment, and not necessarily reflective of general trends in the industry.
Furthermore, I find my education in computer science strengthens rather than diminishes my faith. Education in general strengthens my resolve that my religion is largely ascientific (not non-scientific, but rather outside the realm of applicability for scientific investigation); since it can be neither proven nor disproven by empirical evidence, I am free to continue to believe in it if I like, and I prefer to believe. Education in computer science specifically gives me a fairly unique set of tools compared to the average Christian apologist for investigating the internal logical consistency of my beliefs. For example, while I'm a big fan of C.S. Lewis and his works on the subject, I am also rather fond of the computational approach to the Problem of Pain (aka the Problem of Evil), as overviewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiTb6zhqHLI .
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#7I'm an MSc student in IT/software engineering, and I am a practicing and believing Roman Catholic.
Some of the main reasons for this is
- having recognized that the teachings are consistent with my embedded worldview and ethical code
- a perception that living according to these teachings is much more beautiful, much less likely to hurt others or get hurt myself, mostly free from anger and bitterness, etc. The often repeated opinion that "God gave you your life and his teachings are the owner's manual" seems to hold true for me.
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#9I'm an MSc student in IT/software engineering, and I am a practicing and believing Roman Catholic. Some of the main reasons for this is - having recognized that the teachings are consistent with my embedded worldview and ethical code - a perception that living according to these teachings is much more beautiful, much less likely to hurt others or get hurt myself, mostly free from anger and bitterness, etc. The often…
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#10I am not believer.