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My view and reasons for them. Atheist and Christians welcome here. (short)
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RE: My view and reasons for them. Atheist and Christians welcome here. (short)
(May 7, 2018 at 7:37 pm)Quick Wrote:
(May 7, 2018 at 7:16 pm)The Industrial Atheist Wrote: Christianity has invented myths rather than credible facts. They even say it's based on faith, and that any evidence they have comes from faith.

I'd say the belief that there is no God is a faith as well. The only way for your belief to not be a faith is to say you don't know since there isn't proof one way or another.

Well for instance, there have been studies done that show that prayer doesn't work. But really the god idea is purposely designed to be non falsifiable in every way possible. You can't see or hear him (although some claim to have, but don't have any photo or digital audio evidence) some claim to be able to feel him, but in my experience they are often conflating feelings of excitement or contentment or love and calling that feeling god.

Beyond that, what is there? Even if there is no proof that there is no god, which I find to be somewhat dubious, I don't automatically believe in something  that isn't proven. This is the criteria most people have for almost everything else in life.

Also what about all the suffering? Religions use all sorts of mental gymnastics to try to justify it, but really if you were a being that could literally do anything, why would you allow all the miserable disease, starvation, and strife. 
There are other philosophical reasons to not believe in god, that's just off the top of my head. for me just that one is pretty close to proof.
Although I do allow for the faintest possibility that god exists.

I definitely don't believe god exists, but is it somehow possible? Yes but he/she/it would have to be unrecognizable.
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RE: My view and reasons for them. Atheist and Christians welcome here. (short) - by The Industrial Atheist - May 7, 2018 at 8:20 pm

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