The Argument From Nonbelief

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I think most religious people are just credulous, plain and simple. They can't possibly stand to think about a life that ends after death. And so they are driven to intellectual laziness due to the strong emotional drive to "just know". Except, in that process of trying to figure it all out they wind up believing nonsense because they are emotionally vulnerable, impatient, and gullible. We have seen this over and over throughout the history of religions. The funniest part is that in spite of the fact that most religious people (I mean theists) would admit that ALL the other religions around the world are man-made, fictional, and false - theirs is the only true one (and...it JUST so happens that they grew up with that religion in their culture!). So basically, we KNOW (as much as we can know nearly anything) that men have consistently concocted bullshit religions for one purpose or another. But somehow THEIR religious set of ancient writings is the correct one. It's so sad how they can't see this inconsistency.

I think it's pretty clear. If God wanted us to know he existed and "be saved" that WOULD be the case. Since it is not, we are well within our rational limits to hold that this God simply does not exist.