Re: ATHEISTS .... explain
We don't need to prove that God does not exist. The claimant must provide the evidence for what he claims.
Granted, religions have provided evidence, but their evidence is contradictory, more specifically the evidence for God as presented by the Abrahamic religions. God, Allah, and Jehovah, say a lot of wonderful, touching things, and yet perform despicable deeds and create vicious monsters. Look at their acts and not their words. If we step out of blind faith, and stop trying to make excuses to fit things into "God's perfect plan", you realize that:
- if a God exists, he does not exist as religions would have us believe.
- if God exists as religions would have us believe, he is a sick ******* and not worthy of an ounce of respect, worship, or servitude.
- there is no God.
In any case, I do not believe there is a way to prove any of the above. Perhaps that makes me agnostic. However, if during my life (and if there is an afterlife, after) God is proven or disproven once and for all, I will not change a thing about me or my life for that God.
from Mark Twain's Letters from Earth:
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"Strange...a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied seventy times seven and invented Hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him!"
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