(November 28, 2017 at 9:22 pm)curiosne Wrote:(November 28, 2017 at 7:54 pm)Lek Wrote: It doesn't have anything to do with agnostics vs atheists. It's simply my observation. People have a fear of the unknown. Belief in God has been around almost as long as humanity has and is woven into our prevailing worldview.
This is argument is terribly worded and executed. What you mean is, belief in magical deities have been around since time immemorial but belief in the Jewish God has only been around since 1500 BCE while the Judeo Christian God started in the 1st Century CE.
Ofcourse everyone fears the unknown and that's why magical explanations have been put forth as a comfort blanket. How is your reply above a good argument for the existence of your Juedeo Christian God since all beliefs in the different types of magical explanations can't all be right.
I don't understand how you can determine your's is right above all others, unless you've looked into every magical explanation which is nigh impossible in a single lifetime.
I wasn't making an argument for the existence of the Judeo-Christian God, but since you mentioned it, that God has been around from infinity. He is the one who created the universe in which we exist. He didn't just appear around 1500 BC. My point in my post is that if a person has any belief that there might be a god, that belief will will be a factor in what he expects to experience after death. It's impossible to totally ignore the possibility of an afterlife in that case. If a person is totally convinced that there is no God, then he doesn't have that concern.
