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Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
Now for me the most convincing arguments relate to incompatibility and fear. The incompatibility is between all the major religions but specifically the Abrahamics. Christians and Jews
and Muslims all believe in the same God but one can only be a member of one of those religions not two or three of them. They all however reference a monotheistic model. But this is
not the only model. For there are also deistic and pantheistic models. Where God is non interventionist and may not be omniscient and omnipotent and omnibenevolent [ which he can
not be since two of them are mutually incompatible ] The fear is because of our finite life span and an eternity of death after so religion was created to overcome it by [ imaginatively ]
making humans immortal. This is the reward some give them selves for believing in God. If we were naturally immortal however there would be zero need to believe in God. These are
for me the two most convincing reasons why I do not think on the balance of probabilities that the entity commonly known as God actually exists [ though I am not absolutely certain ]
A MIND IS LIKE A PARACHUTE : IT DOES NOT WORK UNLESS IT IS OPEN
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RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe. - by deleteduser12345 - May 12, 2016 at 4:05 pm
RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe. - by surreptitious57 - June 15, 2016 at 2:53 am

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