Where do we go when we die and are you afraid?

[polymath257]

If your god made everything, who made god?
If a god made everything, where was he before anything existed? (heaven or "another plane of existance" is no answer because that would be part of "everything")

If someone made God then HE is God. Because there is no one greater than God.

So it *isn't* the case that everything needs a maker. Right? And, once you allow for one exception, the natural question is why not others? How many 'uncaused causes' can there be?

Also, how do you know that there isn't more than one God? Maybe a committee that all decided how to make the world? (Given the issues facing the world, I would suggest a committee is a good explanation). Maybe the 'creation' didn't involve an intelligence (so 'God' would not be an appropriate word to use). Maybe creation was a 'mistake' or a side effect of some other project.

And how do you *know* that there is 'no one' greater? How do you know there isn't an infinite regress of 'greatness'?

You make a host of assumptions to justify your particular belief system. maybe you should investigate those assumptions a bit more?

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Plenty of people are greater than god when they realize they could do better by the world with that kind of omnipotence.

However, since god is a mere fictional concept, reality is much greater than god.

Its so difficult to argue with an atheist when all your evidence is based on something they don't even believe in.
Wouldn't you want there to be a God?

1. Why would my desires on the issue be relevant?

If anything, my desire for something to be true is good reason to be skeptical about it. THAT is where I amikely to make a faulty assumption.

2. Why would I want there to be a God? The universe seems wonderful enough as it is.

3. If all the evidence you want to use is being disregarded, maybe that's because it is flimsy evidence or not even evidence at all.