(August 15, 2013 at 9:33 pm)Drich Wrote: Another example can be found in most of the members here. As most of you started out in a church of some kind as as you spiritually matured you saw the flaws in your religions, and left God because you assumed that God was completely represented by what you started out believing. Which is good for a young child but not so good it seems if/when you grow.
I think most of us 'left' God because of a maturity of thought which made the entire idea behind God seem conceptually ridiculous. What your specific god represents and the behaviors attributed to him are quite beside the point. I know of no atheist who became an atheist after a cursory rejection of a single religion's claims. People who do that tend to simply find a religion with beliefs more in line with their expectations.
Even if your god's attributes were a perfect fit for what I think should be expected of a being with such power, without evidence that this god exists, I could not believe in it or worship it.
