(February 19, 2013 at 11:46 am)BeeDeePee Wrote: What were the main reasons that led you to the conclusion that you shouldn't believe in God and belong to any religion?
Kudo given for no apparent deliberate attempt to build a trap into the question, although it is really two questions. My expectations in this regard have gotten severely low, so I think basic courtesy deserves recognition.
I don't believe in any God or gods because I don't know of any good reason to think they exist. I used to believe almost everything (Bigfoot, alien abduction, ghosts, ancient astronauts, ESP, Atlantis, etc.). As I got older, I learned about things like burden of proof, logical fallacies, and standards of evidence. After I stopped believing in all those other things, I realized I had stopped believing in God, too. I belong to a religion: Unitarian Universalism.
To be precise, I didn't conclude I shouldn't believe in God, there wasn't a day when I decided 'I'm not going to believe in God anymore due to lack of a coherent definition and convincing evidence'. I just noticed that at some point along the way, I had stopped believing. I don't think believing or not believing is something you decide: you believe what you're convinced of and you don't believe what you're not convinced of.
