Challenging the Atheist belief

[thesummerqueen]

My beliefs aren't some indoctrination that I've read and accepted, in fact it's the opposite and similar to yours, only with a different conclusion.

Your belief is you don't follow a religion and accept that God exists because there is no proof.

My belief is, I don't follow a religion, but I believe that there exists evidence beyond our understanding that suggests there could be a God.

Not following a religion is not "a belief". It's a lack of belief. That's what atheism is. It's a blank slate.

How you interpret evidence is up to you, but we're allowed to call bullshit on it.

Such as certain NDE's which, even with science, are unexplainable.

The once inexplicable has time and time again been explained. I don't doubt that what you chalk up to supernatural events will one day have a natural explanation.

Or intelligence, such as the people who are happiest are in a state of love.

What's love got to do, got to do with it? What's love but -

Ahem, put the Tina Turner away, Rachel.

Anyway, seriously, what's love got to do with intelligence, may I ask?

And the people who are most unhappy are in a state that lacks love.

By whose measure? I can love someone and be completely depressed at the same time.

But what is love outside of a word? We cannot explain it, it'd be like explain what a tree looks like to a blind man. You have to experience it.

If we're deficient in one sense, we can still experience it through other senses and other measures, and where one person might be blind, another person can see it clearly. Science encourages us to share testing results and discuss them and retest them to find the closest answer. I don't know why the fact that you don't understand the chemical and psychological processes of a particular emotion somehow equals "god".

Too me, this intelligence and why its incorporated within life suggests a map that might indicate a reason for our existence.

Lemme know what that reason is, when you find it. People have been loving for thousands of years, and people like you never seem to understand that you can love for love's sake.

I believe God is that map. Why does it feel good when someone compliments you and why does it feel bad when someone insults something important to you?

Because someone just challenged whether or not that thing actually is important, and many people don't have the fortitude to not give a shit if other people don't share their interests.

To me, there's something to this. It doesn't just exist for no real reason, as nothing seems to exist for no real reason, as evolution suggests.

There's always a reason - just not necessarily a sentient one.

For these reasons, I believe in a God, but not in the form that most have been conditioned to understand, but in the form of love, which to me, from what I understand, seems to be the reason we exist.

I think you like the idea that there is something controlling all the crazy shit out there - it makes you feel better so you don't have to feel afraid.


Anyway, where was I?

Oh yeah, orgasm.