How to Believe in God, According to WikiHow

WikiHow has some specific ideas to help us believe in God
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[@duanethompson8770]

Thanks for going through this wiki article. I was a Christian for over 70 years. However I learned, by experience, that if I wanted something to happen I had to do it myself. Yes, I made mistakes, but I tried to learn from them. No god is needed to be a kind, loving, compassionate person.

[@pythondrink]

That's a lot of time, damn!

[@donaldnumbskull9745]

"... experienced intuitively, somewhat like experiencing love, air and gravity..." Crikey! Spot the odd one out? 🤣😂🤣😂

[@martin2289]

Noted that threats of eternal hellfire for non-believers was conspicuously absent in that article.

[@clemstevenson]

The Ouija board is a classic example of the same confirmation bias that it involved in religious beliefs. In the case of the Ouija board, it is known that humans are inputting the 'drive' via a planchette, and getting the result that they had wanted to find in the first place. I have personally observed religious interpretations of events, based upon religious presuppositions.

[@JimmyTuxTv]

Praise and worship the algorithm

[@aidenmartin6674]

The last time I tripped and fell I experienced gravity intuitively so much I ached all over.

[@ziploc2000]

Last time I saw anyone look at WikiHow it was how to make a Nerf blaster with rubber bands and ice cream sticks, or something. Didn't expect a "how to do godding right" in there, who knew?

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

Oh good, posted only an hour ago. I was watching Remixx Rabbit's take on LOTR and wondered if I've missed any Scarlett content. 😁

[@klodius8588]

In other word, fool yourself hoping for a good outcome.

[@timothymulholland7905]

They did the best they could with the whole make-believe enterprise.

[@IanM-id8or]

There's a difference between not having absolute certainty and having absolutely no evidence whatsoever

[@ianchisholm5756]

How To Believe In God. Step One: believe in God.

[@fdameron]

The reference to faith is the typical theist use where they interchangeably swap the two forms of faith as though they are equal, even though they are not. One form of faith is trust. Most often trust is earned and not taken blindly. The other form of faith is belief without evidence and is not earned but taken blindly. The two forms are definitely not interchangeable.

[@ziploc2000]

Whenever they try to relate god-stuff to real world stuff it fails abysmally, because we can always source data and evidence for real world stuff, and there isn't any for godding. Turek does the chair thing - no it's not faith to sit in a chair, it's experience. We have all sat in thousands of chairs, and can form a good idea before sitting down whether a particular chair will support our weight, and if we're wrong we just look foolish and get a bruised behind.

[@pythondrink]

Yh theists seem to be doing this a lot lately. The equivocation makes me grind my teeth in fury.

[@fdameron]

@@pythondrink I find it amusing that they need such deception. If they truly had something good, all they would need are facts, but all they have is fiction.

[@mesplin3]

I agree with the author's decision to start with faith. As I see it, God's existence is only significant if God's existence affects humanity. For myself, I'd need to know that God can/is willing to communicate with humanity. To avoid self delusion, I like the following experiment. The theist prays that the atheist will aquire faith in God. If God can communicate with the atheist by providing faith, experiences for faith to grow, etc. then this would prove theism.

[@RichWoods23]

I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have God pollute my mind with faith. I'm open to Him providing welcome knowledge if He likes, such as a valid proof or disproof for P vs NP, but if he wants to do anything else to mess with my head without asking my permission first, I'm going to see it as a malign action.

[@mesplin3]

@@RichWoods23 If God provided a proof about the relationship between P and NP algorithms, then wouldn't this alone be messing with your head?

[@RichWoods23]

@@mesplin3 Alone it would, yes, but I used the terms 'welcome knowledge' and 'anything else' for a reason.

[@robertjimenez5984]

So all she said is that wishful thinking will help you overcome any situation in your life. Has never done and will never do. Superstition and wishful thinking will only make your situation even worst, because you are not addressing the problem. You are wasting you time in bs, time that if you act instead of mentally masturbating, will for sure, will rise your survival odds.

[@kerishannon775]

This WikiHow could have been titled "How to believe in your Fairy Godmother". Is there also a WikiHow titled "How to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ". I really want to know. I've tried inviting Him over for dinner, I've tried texting him, but he never answers me. How can I have a personal relationship with someone who is not there physically?

[@rcnfo1197]

Exactly! This is such an important point and the reason I left faith behind. How do evangelicals convince themselves they have a "personal" relationship with Jesus when he never shows up for anything and prayer is just a one-sided monologue.

[@pythondrink]

​@@rcnfo1197 back when I was a Christian, I hated prayer. It's fucking boring. It never made sense to me that God wants me to talk to him but isn't interested in talking back.

[@stephenheninger8498]

Awesome video!!! Yeah this WikiHow was not helpful to me at all, nor am I any less of an atheist after the video. I think you said it best with the good things you can do for others do not require a god.

[@user-ce8lr3ff6v]

Doesn't seem to grasp polytheism and thinks core beliefs are in the heart. Me thinks a therapist should have an above average capacity for empathy in order to understand other folks. Seems like she just projects herself on everything.

[@pythondrink]

The article is all over the place. It's supposed to be how to believe in God but it doesn't seem to do that. Maybe I was stupid to expect any form of decent argumentation.

[@TheBarelyBearableAtheist]

I wonder if she'd write a WikiHow article about how to believe in Pokemon?

[@pythondrink]

Or Ahura Mazda?

[@onepunch9203]

@ 23:52 And what lesson is this god teaching the children of the divorcing parents? 🤔 Or did those children make a poor choice?

[@uncleanunicorn4571]

correction: How to lie to yourself and indulge in confirmation bias. If god existed the same way black holes do, then all cultures could examine the universe and arrive at the same god belief, Definitely not the case.

[@CharlesPayet]

Doesn’t intangible basically = not measurable? 🤨

[@istvansipos9940]

I wonder why and how love does not prove the goddess Venus. "Love. Therefore: A wizard of genocide is pr00000ven!"

[@CharlesPayet]

1:51 it was “fact-checked?” 😂😂😂 I wonder HOW it was fact-checked? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@pythondrink]

Maybe the author fact-checked it and put the fact-checked tag on it? 😂

[@iluvtacos1231]

Point 1 has me laughing my ass off. I have to think of knowing god in an intangible way, like experiencing love, air, and gravity....which are very tangible. Do these people know what words even mean???

[@CharlesPayet]

14:45 maybe creator started everything, then it spiraled out of control?

[@friendlyneighbourhoodsteve4087]

SERENITY NOW!!!

[@Bill_Garthright]

Re. wish-fulfillment, yeah, you never want to pray for something, because that's not how God works. Instead, _steal_ it and ask for forgiveness. :)

[@pythondrink]

2:36 "Maybe she's actually getting an answer." Or maybe she's being blown or eaten out

[@davidwatches]

LMFT? More like LMFAO!