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OH wait, excuse me.
They have the
lack of belief that God exists.
Same difference.
The reason why Atheists do not believe God exists is because:
They lack Object Permanence.
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That's nice. Now let's try the real reasons why I lean toward atheism.
- The Bible itself. Anyone who has actually read it and attempts to pass off God's clear condoning of murder (and self-contradiction, apparently), slavery, and judgement of others as 'metaphors' or 'irrelevant' honestly confuses me. To pass off his laws on the stoning of homosexuals/cutting out of childrens' tongues/selling of daughters as either some metaphor, or invalid due to him sending a part of himself to die to change his own rules which he supposedly was aware of to begin with, is frankly irrational in everyway. If God is all-knowing, why then does he seem to change his attitude about morality and forgiveness? If he may make and learn from mistakes, then he cannot be omnipotent, nor perfect, as he's made and admitted to multiple errors of judgement ( e.g. the great flood, which he expresses notible regret, or at least the realization that drowning the entire world is not the solution to his problems with one species). So what is he, then? A God, perhaps, but if he is subject to error like all humans, what then is so worth worshipping about him? That he so happens to posses more power than us? He created us to begin with - why did he not give us power like his own, rather than 'test' us for entry into his grand paradise? Why not simply create our paradise to begin with - or rather, as he seems to have done that, why not solely punish Adam and Eve for their mistake, rather than
every generation to come? There are simply too many questions and gaps in the bible and its image of God to take seriously, largely due to the fact that it has been so misplaced from the original text and manipulated according to the time period and culture in which it was edited that we see so many factions of Christianity bickering on the true interpretation of what is essentially the world's most popular bout of Round Robin.
- God is not sensible. I cannot see it, I cannot smell it, I cannot hear it, I cannot taste it, and I cannot feel it. Ergo, it does not exist. This is the way we are all biologically inclined to believe, or at least, are intended to believe - I can tell someone there is a giant gargoyle in the room with them, but if they cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or feel said gargoyle, what are they going to think? That it isn't real, that I'm seeing things, that I'm defective or on some kind of drug. If, however, both I and that person had been conditioned from childhood to believe that that Gargoyle existed and would someday present itself if we followed a certain set of controlled behaviors that happened to benefit a certain authority figure, then we may both be inclined to believe its existence without question. The gargoyle is no less real nor proven, but we may continue to believe in its existance on the sole grounds that we cannot be sure if our sensory information is correct, or if we are well enough equipped to determine something's existance.
- I have yet to find a single decent arguement for the existance of God, other than 'well, what other explanation could there be' or, even better, 'well, you can't prove he DOESN'T'.
It's not my job to. As a non-believer, it is not my job to provide evidence and reasoning for why I have no faith in the existance of a god. It falls on the god's followers to give me some reason why their faith is founded and rational, other than the fact that they have faith in that god.
If I told you the sky is made of dragons, you wouldn't expect to have to defend why that is entirely irrational. I would be expected to explain my reasoning for drawing that conclusion, and it would be up to my audience to decide the validity of my logic and statements.
That's how science works. It's not the crowd that proves the theory, it's the Theorist. And I have yet to see a religion that can back up it's faith and answer the 'WHY' of it with anything more than something that just relates to faith or lack of proof against the theory.
That's why I'm an atheist. Not because I lack object permanence which, by the way, is based on the assumption that the child has seen or otherwise been made aware of the tangible existence of the object in question to begin with, which is not possible with a deity.
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