Well, PureEvil did a pretty good job summing up my own thoughts (which means he understands my post or has a telepathic link to my head...). I just want to make one more point.
A logical reason for not believing in God? I don't think there is any such reason any more there is a logical reason for believing in God.
Now, before you jump on me, let me explain. You may think God's existence makes sense, and that's fine. It's not the same thing as having a logical reason for believing in God. Doesn't belief in God imply a little bit of faith in something you can't really see and experiment on?
Here's a surprise for you: atheism has a little bit of faith too. I believe that the answers to all the questions BigJustinW raised can be stated without the involvement of God. As Justin already pointed out, nobody knows how the universe got started. As I have pointed out, there was a time when nobody knew why things fall. Just because we don't know it
now doesn't mean it's not out there. I believe that with enough time we will develop a theory for the creation of the universe just as we developed a theory of gravity. Why do I believe this? There's no logical reason for it. It just makes sense to me. That's what some people would call faith.
No, I don't go out of my way trying to find out everything I can about Christianity because figuring out the existence of God is not important to me. I don't want to sound insulting, but to me, Christianity has as much validity as the cult of Heaven's Gate. I don't go out of my way to find stuff about the beliefs of minor cults, and I apply the same standard to Christianity. Just because it has several hundred million followers doesn't make it any more worthwhile for me to read up on.
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Originally posted by Fez
OH and Xantar, stop being so god damn perfect. I mean we all understand how you are so godamnned black christingly smart, so just like chill out and say some crap like I do
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