(April 30, 2015 at 8:20 pm)lunafreespirit Wrote: ...
That was until I stopped being afraid to question and decided to find answers. I figured if God was real then the answers in his favor would be clear and obvious, including the evidence for his existence, so I should not be afraid to search. Only, the answers in favor of God were not, and instead, like when Dorothy in Oz pulled the curtain and discovered the man behind them, my search led me to realized what an epic sham God and religion really was and is.
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That was good thinking. False religions require faith (i.e., belief without evidence). If something is true, it holds up to careful examination.
Welcome!
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
