God - a study in pointlessness.

[Chas]

I'm glad to see that you, like myself, are interested in why the world was created. I know it was because God wanted to,

No, you don't know that.

but I don't know his specific reasons. He could have also created billions of other universes with totally different properties than ours for different reasons, which boggles my mind to think about. The atheist option to God creating this world is that everything is just here for no purpose - it just is.

No, there is no known reason. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't - no one knows.

Either everything always was or it just popped into existence from whatever was here before everything was. I don't think that because God created the world that all of our problems can be blamed on God. Starving children are usually caused by things like oppressive governments or anarchy. In places where people are miserable, the misery is usually caused by other people. I'd say that people in free countries are less miserable that those in which tyranny prevails. Do you really think that this world is just a place where creatures suffer for millennium after millennium? I think it's a lot more than that.

You just make shit up, don't you.

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Atheism: a study in hopelessness.

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Because a supposedly all powerful and all loving god would actually attempt to make this a better world for its creations rather than watch the horrific drama as though we are an entertaining reality show for it.

Prove your claim that an intelligent being that knows all that can be known and is capable doing anything it is possible to do could indeed have made a better world.

First prove the existence of such a being.