Are Religions/Religious Arguments Complicated Because...

[Doubting Thomas]

I can't explain why religious arguments are so complicated, but it must have something to do with religious believers making them overly complicated. For example, my atheist beliefs are quite simple: 1. I've seen no definite, irrefutable proof of any gods. 2. There is ample evidence to show that all gods appear to have been human inventions throughout history. Therefore, I don't believe that any gods are real, nor do I worship any. I'm guessing that most atheists here have similar belief patterns.

Then you have the theists coming here saying that we really worship Satan, ourselves, material things, etc. In fact, there's a thread here saying that all atheists are animists. Or they claim that atheism really is a religion. Or, in a twisted form of (il)logic, they try to claim that there really are no atheists and we all really do believe, but we pretend there isn't a god so we can be as immoral as we want without worrying about eternal punishment. Or we're all just angry at God, or are rebelling against him.

So when you look at all these obviously false, invented arguments, it's not hard to believe that they're so good at just inventing explanations to keep their unfounded beliefs going that they come up with any ad hoc argument and spread it as fact.