I'm atheist because no one has yet to convince me to change.
And for my first post, I want to reply to this...
aley_watt
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There’s a lot of really great evidence that God does actually exist.
• Billions of people have believed in a God.
2 billion people on Earth right now are Christian.
4.5 billion people on Earth right now are not Christian.
By your logic, your religion must be false.
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• Many people have claimed a personal experience of God.
Many have claimed to have an experience with OTHER gods, ghosts, UFOs, tiny crazy trolls wanting to eat cheese, etc...
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• Almost everyone has an idea of the perfect, of absolute goodness. And this idea is remarkably the same across generations and cultures. This universal sense of right against wrong and of perfection had to come from somewhere.
It comes from the human brain. We all share the same general ideas, and have created religions around them.
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• Everyone has a longing for justice that is not fulfilled in this life; justice can only be fulfilled by a judgment after this life for the notion of “justice” to have any meaning.
Wishful thinking does not change reality.
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• Many lives throughout history have been drastically reformed by belief in God.
And other gods, throwing the belief away, UFOs, ghosts, etc...
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• The God of the Bible, a holy Judge who damns sinners, is hardly the type of “god” that people would willingly invent.
Ever wonder why no one knows who wrote most of the Bible?
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Either God exists for everybody and some don’t realize it, or God doesn’t exist for anybody, and some are deluded into thinking God does exist.
True.
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• The Atheist: There is no God. Period.
Not true. Atheists do not all claim that they KNOW that God does not exist. That would be wrong to say. They claim to not believe.
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Agnosticism assumes that God doesn’t exist, since if God did exist, he would (by definition) have the power to make himself known.
An agnostic can be either atheist or theist.
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None of these 3 approaches even seeks to prove itself. In fact, there are very few things we can actually prove. Think about proof. There are all kinds of things we believe without proof. We take things on faith all the time. Historians tell us that George Washington crossed the Delaware River. But can you prove that? Were you there? Do you have videotape of the event?
Or, for that matter, how do know that 1967 ever actually existed? Can you prove it? How do you know that the world didn’t start in 1972? Can you prove that the pre-1972 world isn’t just a really big sham? Imagine implanted memories, doctored textbooks, and more. Proof is hard to come by. We take so much on faith, but God has made sure that his existence (at least) is obvious to people willing to think things through.
Two wrongs do not make a right. We trust that the many records of the people that WERE there aren't frauds. We have historians researching history all the time trying to make sure they have it right.
God is one of many extraordinary claims in a very old book that cannot be confirmed for complete accuracy.
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Before the universe existed, nothing existed (apart from God, given he exists). Nothing really means no thing. Nothing is not just a big black void; you can imagine a black void. A black void is something. But nothing is nothing. There would have been nothing in existence before everything came into existence, and nothing cannot do something. Nothing especially can’t create the universe. The classic Latin phrase is ex nihilo nihil fit. Nothing can do nothing.
Actually, ex nihilo IS possible through an event known as quantum tunneling. It is a phenomena that creates matter without breaking the laws of thermodynamics. It is what causes black hole radiation and radioactive decay as well.
Anyway, no one has given me a good reason to believe, so I don't.
