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Ditto. (Though I don't mind dubbing that Source "Creator/Great Mystery/All-Mother" and other names. But I don't use "God/god" because the word has become so sullied by Christians.)
I've been thinking about doing the same for a similar reason. I've not ceased to be amazed, after months of reading these threads, at the things people say while cloaking themselves in their religion. It's been an eye-opening lesson to say the least.
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It seems to me that finding out why people don't believe is unlikely to be very well answered in the Christianity forum. Most of the people that post here already believe and are unable to read the minds of the unbelievers.
However, if you go over to the A&A forum, you can ready several many threads covering the same topic, often created by a Christian asking for information from the A&A regulars.
I already know most agnostics and atheists will agree with my answer, that's why I originally posted this topic in the Christian forum. I wanted to know the opinions there. I'm sure perhaps they wouldn't agree that it's because of evidence or a lack of evidence. Yet now I don't think this topic will be productive here. If it comes to my answer here, I would be preaching to the choir in a sense.
This should be so easy for the theists in this thread to understand. You do not believe in any of the gods out there except for one. Why do you not believe in any of the others?
Ditto. (Though I don't mind dubbing that Source "Creator/Great Mystery/All-Mother" and other names. But I don't use "God/god" because the word has become so sullied by Christians.)
I agree...I try to stay away from the term God because people tend to think that I believe in the God that is represented in the Bible and I certainly don't!
So, what would you say is perhaps the number one reason why someone doesn't believe in God's existence? Now of course, believing God exist or don't exist is not faith. Faith simply mean you trust someone. Yet I'll indulge a little here, just to keep things simple.
If the Judeo-Christian God really did exist, then we could point a telescope to the sky and see this God creating stars and planets in our universe, right?
Because that's what it actually says God does in the Bible?
A few years ago was the 100th anniversary of Glacier National Park. We packed the car and went, staying an entire week spending 1-2 nights in each of the Park's lodges. What we saw can all be explained tidily by science. However, when we all huddled together in the Adirondack chairs outside the door of Motel Lake McDonald absorbing views like this it said God to all of us.
That absorbing view says "Great Spirit" to the Blackfoot who were there LONG before the National Park Service - or the Bible - got there.
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Because there is not, nor has there ever been, a single shred of evidence for Yahweh or any other invisible supernatural being who controls our destinies.
That isn't to say such a being (or beings) absolutely doesn't exist in some corner of the cosmos or some dimensional realm. We just have no evidence of any such thing and therefore, no reason to default to the belief in gods.
This should be so easy for the theists in this thread to understand. You do not believe in any of the gods out there except for one. Why do you not believe in any of the others?
Got it?
Christians; take the way you feel about Scientologists. That how we feel about you.
I think a better question is "What is the number one reason people believe God DOES exist?"
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