(May 9, 2016 at 12:20 pm)Thena323 Wrote: There's no indication that any supernatural God actually exists outside of the assertions of others, as far as I can tell. I've never seen him. Never heard him. At no point in my life have I knowingly witnessed any supernatural or miraculous occurrences of any kind, whatsoever. Those who claim to have experienced these seemingly impossible things are unable to provide proof of such.
Until one of those things changes, all I'm left with is an ever-growing pile of words, words, and more words.
To date, I'm simply UNABLE to believe such a monumentally fantastic claim based on words; despite having a desire to believe in something more.
I totally agree. I've never seen or heard him either, and never witnessed anything supernatural or miraculous of any kind, even when I was a Christian. I have experienced nothing as a Christian that I can't put down to the psychological workings of the brain, nor heard of any experiences by others that can't be explained the same way. The same thing with 'miracles' that rely on the power of positive thinking etc... to me they don't count because they are explained by psychology.
And that's a lovely way of putting it... that it's just words, words, and more words... the endless assertions of others. It kind of fits in with what I was saying in another thread that without interpersonal human influence, religion would be nothing.
