Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut
I'm an atheist. Since I make God out to be a fairy tale, does that mean he is one?

What evidence do you have for any of that? When you get down to the bottom of it, you shouldn't believe in anything unless there is sufficient evidence to believe in it. Otherwise you are just engaging in wishful thinking.


What evidence do you have for this?


What evidence do you have for the existence of souls?


I think we have to look at reality for what it is. I know gods and souls sound like neat ideas, but that doesn't make them true. We don't know where the universe came from. We just don't. And there's nothing to suggest that there's a "God" interfering with our planet. Everything down here seems to operate completely predictably according to the laws of physics.

As for our "souls", we have already found them. They are our brains. Like it or not, all our thoughts, our emotions, our loves and hates are just chemicals and neurons in our brains. When some of those brain cells are destroyed, we lose some of our thinking capabilities and our personalities. When a lot of those brain cells are destroyed, we lose a lot of our thinking capabilities and our personalities. When all of them are destroyed (i.e. when we die), we lose all of our thinking capabilities and our personalities. It's not necessarily the most comforting explanation, but it is the correct one. We have to realize that so we can make the most of the few decades we have on this precious planet.
Well, tell me this. What do you believe started life? Life in its self is so advanced especially when you look at the complexity of humans. How could something with any intelligence exist with nothing advanced behind it? The odds are impossible. It would be like advanced software just appearing out of nowhere to make an analogy. You may want to sound like your just being logical but, in all actuality, it takes more faith to believe we appeard out of nowhere then it does to believe in a God.

We have to realize that so we can make the most of the few decades we have on this precious planet.

And what is precious about our lifes if there is no God? Ultimately, we live in a dieing universe. At some point in the future, the Earth will cease to support life, the sun will stop burning, and our universe will collapse. So ultimatly, whats the reason for life? The whole existance of man will make no ultimate diffrence to anything, and strictly to the point, life is absurd. There would be absolutly no reason to it.

I'm sorry that you have no faith in God and I wish you would reconsider (for your sake). Don't take this as an insult or anything, I can't change you. It's your choice.
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