The Atheist Guide To Christianity

[Kayenneh]

A) apologies

B) I've done the research

C) Imaginary gets us nowhere. Freud and Nitzsche had the same idea, saying God is just an illusion of the mind, a self created "father" figure to fill this "hunger" that we have. While these are brilliant theories, you cannot disprove God psychologically. Because you reach this, unproveable conundrum

1. God doesn't exist, and we want to believe in him.
2. God does exist, and we don't want to believe in him.

So the thing is to discover the truth. Does God really exist? For example, If a tree falls in a forest with noone around, does it still make a sound? Of course it does. Due to the true laws of science, a sound is the result of when two objects collide with each other. So according to what is true, it will make a sound, because we know that science works. How to discover the truth of whether God really exists or not, regardless of our psychological circumstance, is the tricky bit I suppose...

Apology accepted

I'm sure you've done the research, but so have thousands of others. I would like to know what your credentials are, why you have suddenly solved the puzzle so many others have tried to do for centuries. Nevertheless, if you have some new insight, do share it here. I'm at least quite curious what you have come up with.

No, I cannot disprove a god. But following faiths through the ages, I can safely say that all deities are imaginary. For instance, I'm not afraid of Thor (and he's a bad MF! ) every time there's a thunderstorm around. I do not pray to Ahti, king of the seas before I embark on a journey over water. All the old gods have "disappeared" as soon as the culture built around them did.
As for the conundrum, it's not about not wanting to. It's because I know it's idiotic to do so. If I was proven wrong, I would know there was a god (or many), thus eliminating the ridiculous element of faith.