(September 2, 2014 at 12:26 am)XK9_Knight Wrote: Probably, most importantly (what I’m trying to get at), was there an occasion in your life when you saw (heard, read) something you felt was immoral, and concluded from it “there is no God?”
Speaking rationally, the existence of evil or immorality doesn't point to a lack of god, so I could never reach that conclusion from the stimuli you mention. What the existence of evil does say is that whatever god does exist, if one does, is not a god worth worshiping, is not the source of morality, and if it does care at all about humanity, it does so through a moral frame of reference so alien and unconnected with the lived reality of actual human beings as to be completely useless and incomprehensible. That god would be the perfect case study in "Blue and Orange" morality.
No, the reason to not believe in a god is the lack of evidence for one. But I take comfort in knowing that any god that does exist and is responsible for the world as it is either doesn't care enough to punish anyone, is so immoral that any action I take would be a crapshoot anyway, or is so completely outside of any experience I might have that if I actually were to meet it we would be unable to communicate properly.
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