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What is your reason for being an atheist?
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RE: What is your reason for being an atheist?
May 30, 2018 at 10:42 am
(May 26, 2018 at 8:49 am)dimitrios10 Wrote: My reason is that if God was real, he would not put me through such great suffering


for me it is simple.

Lack of demonstrable and falsifiable evidence, and reasoned argument to support the claim that gods exist.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: What is your reason for being an atheist? - by Simon Moon - May 30, 2018 at 10:42 am

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