List of reasons to believe God exists?

[bennyboy]

My list:

1)  There are things we don't understand.


yep, that's about it.

Sounds more like a reason to believe that there are things we don;t understand. 

The only reason I need for that is the furrowed look on my brow whenever I think about anything more complicated than my breakfast cereal.

I do have another theory, though.  Sometimes things go so perfectly badly in life that you think, "Surely someone is fucking with me, because this can't be chance."  If you have to give a name to a cosmic fucker-with, then it would be God, no?

Or, on the other hand, there have been times when I've been so ineffective, so hopelessly self-centered and useless, and life has gone fantastically: rolling cars at high speed and walking away without a scratch, doubling down on video blackjack with a pair of kings because I was too drunk to realize that I wanted to "split," and drawing an ace next card. Surely, given how incredibly stupid and irresponsible I am, the fact that I am alive and relatively thriving cannot be coincidence?

(I'm not being satyrical, I kind of think that is how religious ideas form-- too many close calls start building the case for a superstitious view, and eventually to a belief in agency in the environment)