RE: More atheist men than women?
July 7, 2015 at 4:16 pm
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2015 at 4:23 pm by robvalue.)
Sure, there is that. But then it may be the case that whatever God wants you to believe in contradictory gibberish, even if it isn't actually possible it could all be correct. There's no accounting for taste.
It's pretty easy to demonstrate there is a zero chance any "religion" is correct. All you need do is add an extra possible criteria. Does the God want you to worship him 4 or 5 times a day? Get it wrong, and you lose. Now pick another, anything. Does he want you to pray for 20 seconds, 30 seconds? 50 seconds? Gotta pick the exact time (potentially) or you lose.
There are an infinite number of extra criteria you could pile on. There isn't enough time in this life to even examine them all, let alone pick them all right. Even if you got every single one right so far (and you can't know that you have) there's still infinitely more criteria to potentially satisfy. It's impossible. You have to make unfounded assumptions that the God will be "happy enough" with a certain range of actions/beliefs.
And all this is assuming there is just one God... You get the idea.
It's pretty easy to demonstrate there is a zero chance any "religion" is correct. All you need do is add an extra possible criteria. Does the God want you to worship him 4 or 5 times a day? Get it wrong, and you lose. Now pick another, anything. Does he want you to pray for 20 seconds, 30 seconds? 50 seconds? Gotta pick the exact time (potentially) or you lose.
There are an infinite number of extra criteria you could pile on. There isn't enough time in this life to even examine them all, let alone pick them all right. Even if you got every single one right so far (and you can't know that you have) there's still infinitely more criteria to potentially satisfy. It's impossible. You have to make unfounded assumptions that the God will be "happy enough" with a certain range of actions/beliefs.
And all this is assuming there is just one God... You get the idea.
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