Ryan the Terrible
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I'm a strong atheist and always will be. But lately my thoughtful side has been showing up again, and I've come to some conclusions. If there is a conscious force that created the universe:
-It changed a lot of natural laws after it created the universe.
-There are no religions based on it.
-It is imperfect.
-It doesn't want us to believe in it, because we will start asking for things to be changed if we do.
-If it allows good people to live after their death, we won't be tested based on whether we believed in it. Our results will be based on how well we used what it gave us. (For example, NOT completely throwing away our logic to blindly believe in the impossible.) Also, it would probably just cut off the lives of those who it doesn't think deserve salvation, rather than torture them for eternity.
I felt sort of weird calling this "it", but for obvious reasons a deity would definitely be genderless.
This all said, I still highly doubt that a deity exists, and will remain an atheist until I see solid proof of otherwise.
-It changed a lot of natural laws after it created the universe.
-There are no religions based on it.
-It is imperfect.
-It doesn't want us to believe in it, because we will start asking for things to be changed if we do.
-If it allows good people to live after their death, we won't be tested based on whether we believed in it. Our results will be based on how well we used what it gave us. (For example, NOT completely throwing away our logic to blindly believe in the impossible.) Also, it would probably just cut off the lives of those who it doesn't think deserve salvation, rather than torture them for eternity.
I felt sort of weird calling this "it", but for obvious reasons a deity would definitely be genderless.
This all said, I still highly doubt that a deity exists, and will remain an atheist until I see solid proof of otherwise.