RE: Why sometimes I incline to Atheism and how I rationalize myself out of it.
June 9, 2014 at 11:13 am
(June 7, 2014 at 10:09 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Sometimes I think about the problem of evil and it makes me really question things.
I never lose belief in God but it does make me think.
I thought you were a deist. I thought the whole thing behind deism is rejecting any religious authority and a belief in a god, but not religion. So you'd have no sacred texts to assert that God is all-good and no reason to believe it. How would that belief system even have a problem of evil? If you get rid of omnibenevolence or omniscience, you have no problem of evil.
You have to assume God is all-loving. On what basis are you making that assumption?
(June 8, 2014 at 12:07 pm)Irrational Wrote: When I finally admitted to myself I was an atheist, the relief that ensued was immense.
Yeah, I think I got to the point where I flat-out knew I didn't believe... and it still took me six months to get to the point where I could admit it to myself. It was a huge relief.
