RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
November 23, 2016 at 8:05 am
(November 22, 2016 at 6:44 pm)Balaco Wrote: Atheists, why do you reject the idea of God, and why should I? I know that your answers will include "there's no evidence" and all that, but please try to explain.
Why don't you believe in Thor? Zeus? Tezcatlipoca? Allah? Or any of the other myriad of gods that people have believed existed in the past. Did you choose your god over all of these? If not then you are a Roman Catholic because that's how you were raised and conditioned. You didn't have a choice in that and no matter how right it feels because of this, doesn't mean to say that it actually is correct. If you did choose then did you choose because it benefited your life in some way and gave you comfort, or because you thought it gave you a better understanding of reality? If it's the former then carry on believing what you need to believe. If it's the latter then you made a mistake.
I reject the idea of God for various reasons.
- A god cannot be defined.
- Not only is there no evidence that is a god but the evidence we do have about reality suggests that any god, were it to exist, whatever it was, would be utterly irrelevant.
- A god is so implausible given what we know about reality that we might as well accept that it does not exist.
- I used to believe in reincarnation and all kinds of new age stuff but I didn't want to fool myself or know that I had settled upon the easiest answers regardless of whether they were incorrect, so I continued questioning. Avoiding personal discomfort is insufficient reason to believe in a fairy tale.
