RE: Q: do you, Christian, claim that God exists, rather than you believe that he exists?
February 26, 2014 at 6:23 pm
(February 26, 2014 at 1:16 pm)max-greece Wrote: I thought to myself. What kind of God would invent something like this?
Then I realised - no God would come up with something so pointlessly horrific - therefore, there is no God.
From that moment on its all just fallen into place.
It is horrible and sad that human beings suffer from diseases like this. I can think of other even more horrific diseases than this. So I sympathize with you on this. Cancer comes to mind. My great-grandfather died of prostate cancer and it was very painful for him. I cannot imagine how he must have suffered.
If this is why you are an atheist then I respect this.
You state that: "No God would come up with something so pointlessly horrific, therefore no God exists."
Your argument against God is what is commonly referred to as "The Problem of Evil."
The reasoning is that the existence of evil and suffering in the world are incompatible with the existence of God. Since evil and suffering exist, it follows that God does not.
This is what I consider to be the most powerful positive argument a non-theist can use against the existence of God.
Are you familiar with this argument?
