Quandary

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It's important to know that atheism isn't about claiming to have all the answers. The sceptical atheist will answer "I don't know" to any number of extremely important questions such as "where did the universe come from". It's simply a (lack of) belief based on the evidence to hand, in what I consider to be an incoherent concept. It's not a statement that further evidence can't arise which could change this.

To make this point: something shows up claiming to be "God". How do you distinguish it from an arbitrarily powerful alien, which is not a god? Many people say they would "just know". Well, the alien has the technology to give you that exact feeling.

What the fuck is a god? If it's simply something that "creates realities" then our brains are gods. They create our own realities that we live in, which may or may not be based on a separate objective reality.