(September 3, 2015 at 5:35 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(September 3, 2015 at 11:06 am)Neimenovic Wrote: And in all seriousness, they won't, and they can't. Because faith never comes from reasoning, but from feelings and indoctrination. It's an emotional crutch forced on kids. It takes a lot to let go of it once you buy into it, and it comes back to haunt you afterwards whenever you're emotionally weak.
Turn about is fair play. Atheism is based on wishful thinking that you can do as you please without being accountable to any divine or natural law.
How is it wishful thinking to dismiss what can't be demonstrated as even remotely probable?
But even allowing divine law, why would divine law not take the balanced of one's actions into account? Most people I know do neither good nor evil most of the time, and the good they do far outweighs the bad. Why should they fear final judgment?
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.