|
This is not a question persay, feel free to delete it. You just responded to my question and I'd like to thank you and say simply that I am not a believer, although I can understand why you made the assumption. I simply find atheism unconvincing. (and am dating an atheist and have a sudden intrest in it) I just can't seem to make it follow rationally that because there is a lack of solid quanitifiable evidence (as in your cream pie around mars) there is nonexistance, disbelif sure, but not nonexistance. So I was looking for evidence of nonexistance of God, not disprof, or explainations of disbelif of specific religions.
I hope I've clarafied myself a bit.
Thank you agian (and I'm sorry I did rate). I have seen some of your pervious run ins with believers and I was glad to get you specifically to answer my question.
Razhie
[ ]
Want to answer more questions in the Miscellaneous category?
Maybe give some free advice about: Spirituality?
Forgive me, Razhie, but it's awfully late; I should have been asleep an hour ago. So this won't be as long as I would like it to be.
Of course I'd be happy to talk in more detail later.
The problem is that except in special cases such as mathematics, it's impossible to prove a negative.
There are literally an *infinite* number of possibilities for the supernatural. God, or gods, could be anywhere. Every imaginable possibility COULD exist. But we don't worry about it. We don't spend a SECOND trying to disprove those myriad possibilities. Because ultimately those infinite possibilities add up to nothing.
Christians seem to feel that we atheists need to make a special case to somehow justify our lack of belief in their God. But why is the Christian God a special case? The only reasons that I can see are cultural and political.
No, I can't prove that there's no God. I wouldn't even bother. But the whole issue is simply meaningless to me now. I personally wouldn't say "There is no God", any more than "There is no Orbiting Banana Cream Pie" - because the whole IDEA seems silly and pointless to me.
I will say, though, that if the Christian God DID exist, I'd find His morality extremely questionable (examples: killing babies and endorsing slavery). And I probably don't need to point out all the weird contraditions that you can find in the Bible.
About rating: it's okay. I just didn't want to get another spiteful downrating. One of the believers I answered gave me a 3 for what I knew was the best answer s/he'd gotten, and the hypocrisy was simply galling. Fortunately a moderator felt the same way, and changed things. :D
I don't care about ratings much. What I treasure are comments and feedback from people who tell me that I really helped them.
And now, time for me to sleep. Write again any time, here or at my email address!
]
More Questions: |