Argument from Conscience

[Kingpin]

I understand your points here Rob and value your concern for my well being.    I actually converted from Atheism to Christianity when I was 18 coming from a horrific childhood.  You may say that I am invoking this idea of a loving God purely out of a need for emotional comfort stemming from a horrific past, and while it does indeed give me immense comfort that is not why I continue to hold it, I hold because I personally find it to be true.  I cannot logically look at this world and universe and not deduce something far greater than ourselves.  Naturalism offers no value, no meaning, just depression and despair.  I look at an intelligible world and have to logically deduce intelligence behind it.  I cannot fathom that this immensely complex universe is pure blind luck, it goes against reason.  It's like someone showing me a dictionary with all of the words in correct order with all of their definitions and then saying it came to be out of an explosion in a printing press by pure luck and chance and that it is precisely what we expect to happen based on the properties we see of this printing press.  To me that is illogical.

You may say, "I don't know" but when facing tough questions in life, the answers that a naturalistic framework offer are bleak.  Maybe you think I'm not happy with those answers so I need to believe in something else to make those answers more re-assuring.  That's fine if you want to believe that.  

All I can say is if you ever decide to divorce that bastard God, we're keeping you Kingy.

Thanks.  I like you guys too.