God, a proven fact or a mere fiction?

Re: God, a proven fact or a mere fiction?

I have studied it very objectively! What belief requires is deference, and I refuse to do that. That means suspension of rationality. My position is very stable. It’s a position that says you have to show me evidence, and this is something that no religion can. Evidence isn’t circular argument. You can’t use your religious text to verify your religious text. I would submit to you, if you looked at things a bit more objectively you would see it’s all superstition.

Rules have nothing to do with religion. Most of the basic laws we live with predate any of the contemporary religions.

I am not complaining about the world at all. I’m saying the world is moving in the right direction. We had a world ruled by religion, it was called the Dark Ages in Europe. We have countries ruled by religion, Saudi Arabia. Are you telling me the Saudis aren’t religious? What about the Taliban, are they religious? What about Iran, religious? All three follow the same prophet, the same god, the same book, but aren’t very similar! Taliban and Saudis are alike, but very different from Persians. How can that be? How can eternal truths be misinterpreted?

I have read your posts very thoroughly. You’re an intelligent person, and a very good sport, indeed. However, your arguments are all circular. There is simply no evidence for the existence for any deity.

I was speaking to someone the other day about the rape and killing of that young girl in India. The lady I was speaking to extols the virtues of krishna and praises krishna for everything she has. She’s a rather wealthy lady. I thought to myself, I wonder how many gods that young girl and her fiance must have called out to. I wonder who it was she prayed to. She was brutally raped in a bus, and left to die. No god came to her aid. What kind of deity allows something like that to happen?

I watched a video a few months back where they were interviewing a little boy, 5 years old, in Pakistan. He works in a car repair shop. He said he prays that his father uses the money he gets every day to feed him and his siblings. His father is a drug abuser. I have a 4 year old son, it broke my hear to see this. Why doesn’t the deity he prays to help him?

Why is it that gods seem to answer the prayers of the middle classes or the rich. Are the poor not praying enough? Why do gods hate poor people?