(July 25, 2014 at 12:53 pm)SilentVex Wrote: It seemed illogical to me first that if there was some great and powerful being in the world that created everything and wanted us to be happy, that it would also condemn diversity and being unique.
Which in my opinion eliminated most every religion but left a god as a possibility. But it also seemed illogical that an all powerful being would create a wonderfully complex universe and said, essentially "F*ck it, I'm done. Too much work." And gone off to play cosmic solitaire for eternity. After all if one had as much power as that it would be odd to simply leave things to their own devices and no longer interact with the universe it had created.
Which threw out the idea of a god or gods. Which is why I don't have a god in my beliefs.
So, yes, you used pretty good logic to become a disbeliever.
There are stronger reasons to disbelieve than yours, but you still applied reason and critical thinking.
That leads to an obvious question. Why don't you apply the same critical thinking to your 'Aether' belief'? Why do you rely and your personal feeling for that belief?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
