(February 6, 2016 at 7:59 pm)scoobysnack Wrote: I would say everyone in their heart knows God exists, and some are better than others at suppressing that. Some are angry at God, and some need more evidence before they accept that subconscious belief. This is why I will never give up pushing the information learned by others through near death experiences. Even if you don't agree and think they are hallucination, the lessons they learned and information they brought back is too important for humanity, and the individual to ignore.
My husband has a subconscious belief that if you express a positive belief that things will go right, they will go wrong. It's a common superstition held in the East and in the West. Many people like my husband know it's irrational, yet they feel it's true even though they know it isn't. God is like that for many atheists. So I get what Elizabeth King is talking about. And if you think about superstitions honestly, so will you. It isn't denying what's real, it's denying what's irrational.
But you don't really want to think about it honestly. You want to shore up your own faith. No one prays to have faith in evolution, or gravity, or the big bang. But belief in god requires constant shoring up through prayer. Think about it.
In the meantime you serve a useful purpose here. You demonstrate to doubting theist lurkers the vaucity of your reasoning.
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.
