(February 10, 2014 at 6:40 am)Sword of Christ Wrote:(February 10, 2014 at 5:49 am)EvolutionKills Wrote: The only things I need are evidence and intellectual honesty. If you have those, you don't need any religion.
There's plenty of evidence for God if you look.
Sure - anything can be read as evidence for "God", or Santa, or the Tooth Fairy, if you look. The question then becomes: is it convincing evidence? That's where intellectual honesty, critical thinking and the all-important bullshit filter comes in.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'