Me and My Thoughts

[theVOID]

I live in NYC and I'm 23 years old. I'm from Bangladesh. Gender is male. And I'm a theist (Muslim).

How did I find out about this forum? Well, I just googled "atheist forums" and then I came across this site, and I liked it more than the other atheist forums.

It is true, we're the best

Welcome to the forums Would i be wrong in guessing you like Cricket? I'm form New Zealand so pretty much our most common introduction to Bangladesh is through the sport.

I joined because there are some things that I would like to know from atheists, while at the same time, I know that many of the atheists here might also want to ask me certain things.

Feel free to ask.

Let me pose a question, why do you believe in a God?

I think it's a healthy thing to talk about faith-related issues in an honest and respectable way.

It's not often possible to be both honest and respectable way, you can count on the former at least

I think it's interesting to talk to people who have radically different beliefs even though I might disagree with them.

Good attitude.

And I'm sure that participating in this forum will give me new ideas to think about. So, that's why I decided to join an atheist forum for the first time.

Awesome

At one point in my life, I was doubtful about the existence of God as well. Then from doubt I went to a complete disbelief. So, then I became an atheist just like many of you in this forum (not for too long though). It was around the last two years of going to high school. I stopped believing in God, Heaven, Hell, the Quran, Islam, and every other religion altogether. I thought that religion was like a disease in the mind and that's why I tried forget everything that I learned about God and religion. And being an atheist felt good to me in a certain way. Why? Because I felt that there was no superior authority who is telling me what to do, and I don't have to worry about going to Hell, and this gave me a greater sense of freedom and completeness in my life.

You would have been wrong Whether or not God exists you are still accountable in this life, to society. That is the point of government and law - If God were the only responsibility that mattered there would exist no laws outside of the religious traditions - Because this is not the case it would simply be impossible to claim that there is no authority other than god. Either totalitarian religious or militaristic authority is forced upon us, or we have the chance to vote for the governing authority.

However, this began to change as I learned more and more science, philosophy, and religion. I felt that my doubts about God forced me to think more deeply and try harder to understand the truth. I was thinking about a lot of things like the Big Bang theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, higher dimensions, evolution, the complexity of living things on this planet, the beautiful and awesome creatures that I see on the Discovery channel, etc. The more I learned about these things, the more it increased my faith in God.

You mean the more you realized we can explain things without any need for God the more you believed in him? That is bizarre

I don't want to explain too much about my beliefs right now because this is just an introduction thread. I will expand on my ideas later on, in other threads which are relevant to what I'm talking about.

Sure

I have read the rules about things like personal attacks, spamming, trolling, and being preachy, etc. I don't think that's going to be a problem for me at all. In fact, maybe I'll be the one to be on the receiving end and even get mocked for my religious beliefs.

Yeah it's going to happen at some stage If it does don't take it personally, it's the arguments for belief we find to be ridiculous, it doesn't mean there is anything wrong with you and your arguments for other things, nor your general intelligence.

But that's already expected since this is an atheist forum. I don't mind if that happens, but feel free to refute me and to say whatever you think is the truth in your comments - I'll try to be as logical as I can - but of course, you have to judge for yourself about the soundness of my logic.

As long as you are intellectually honest we will be fine - That essentially means dropping arguments if they are displayed to be fallacious.