So your an Athiest

[Mister Agenda]

You guys are funny. You really believe you are outside the box. We all believe what makes us comfy, to a point. I have no evidence, but neither do you. You don't even know you need evidence, "I am an athiest". You think that is a catch all phrase. We all need evidence. Mine is found inside myself, yours is found outside yourself. We all wonder why bad things happen to good people, why do we love, where does hate, justice, etc. come from, whats it all about. You put on a front like it dosn't matter, or you never think of such things. You think its from our neurons or whatever. I'm sure you believe in evolution, talk about your mental masterbation. But you do believe its from something. Come back down to Earth. And one more thing, thanks for the comment about my english--Public Schools

You seem fairly reasonable compared to many of our theist visitors, but you make a lot of assumptions about us, which apparently also come 'from inside yourself'. Pro tip: feelings that come from inside yourself aren't always true.

You have a point about comfort. Trying to hold contradictory views simultaneously causes cognitive dissonance, which is uncomfortable. Having a consistent position that aligns with what you are able to determine about reality reduces that dissonance. Many people report feeling like a load has been lifted from them when they realize they've become an atheist.

The person who claims something exists is the one who needs to have the evidence, not the people who don't believe them. I don't need evidence that there isn't man's leather work boot orbiting Neptune for not believing that to be the most reasonable position to take if no convincing case to the contrary can be made. Otherwise we'd have to believe every proposition that can't be proved not to be true, and that's no way to go through life.

There's no reason to wonder why bad things happen if you don't believe in some power capable of preventing those bad things from happening. Hate is an emotion that has obvious evolutionary advantages. Justice is a concept that has obvious social advantages.

I'm sure we think of such things as often as the next person, we've just reached different conclusions than you have reached.

You'll have to be more explicit about your evolution and mental masturbation comment for me to understand what you're trying to say. I'm certain you meant it to be insulting, though.

The things I believe in have evidence. Sometimes I find out that something I thought was true, I was misinformed about, and then I change my view to correlate with the new information. I like finding out I'm wrong about something, because after, I'm wrong about fewer things than I was before.