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Why do you think the universe was created?
So our souls could come here and exert our free will without boundaries and find our other half without knowing who it was ahead of time. To learn, as I explained before, through a series of lives, through pain and struggles and suffering through all the pain we have intentionally caused others, to become better and more godlike and deserving of eternity in paradise
@Senta Christine
Sapporo asked "Why do you think the universe was created?"
Please give an answer, not the usual evasive babble.
@Senta Christine
"So our souls could come here and exert our free will without boundaries"
If one attained this state of perfection, do they still have free will?
I don't believe you, what objective evidence can you demonstrate for your risible claims.
Do any of you have specific reasons for deciding to be atheists?
@Senta Re: "Do any of you have specific reasons for deciding to be atheists?"
Yep. Cookies.... *hanging head sadly*... Long story....
@ Tin-Man
I thought you would not ever mention that cookie incident.
***tree shambles slowly back to the forest with boughs hung low***
rmfr
..and Deepak Chopra?
Cookies? Really, all it took was cookies and you lost your faith in everything eternal?
Because of what you think of me. I am an evil, wicked, mean, and nasty person.
rmfr
I don't think you are evil and mean. A bit paranoid perhaps.
Senta, you asked, “Do any of you have specific reasons for deciding to be atheists?”
I did not ‘decide’ to be atheist. ‘Atheist’ is something I’m called because I do not accept the assertion that any gods exist.
Good answer, religions are the only belief system that insist those who don't share their beliefs have a specific name.
What do we call people who don't believe in unicorns?
Sheldon: "What do we call people who don't believe in unicorns?"
I don't call you anything except fallacious doubter. How dare you not believe in unicorns?
rmfr
But you have no evidence or proof that God does not exist and 93% of the world disagrees with you. Wouldn't it be more accurate for you to say that you don't know if God exists?
You haven't defined "God" yet, other than to say it is possibly a "massive form of energy". So it is unfair to say we have no evidence or proof that God does not exist.
If God is a form of energy, where is it located? Why do you need to call it "God"?
God is located any place God wants to be located. Somewhere beyond our solar system obviously. God is just a common term. Universal Energy is good but God is more mainstream.
If "God" is not within nature, it does not meaningfully exist. But if "God" exists within nature, why do you need a special name for something within nature? "God" is a redundant term.
In what sense is "Universal Energy"? universal? If it is everywhere, it should be possible to detect it everywhere, not just beyond our solar system.
God created nature. God is not everywhere. God is a being too and has a life. If God were here, we would be able to see and visit with God.
Senta, you wrote, “But you have no evidence or proof that God does not exist and 93% of the world disagrees with you. Wouldn't it be more accurate for you to say that you don't know if God exists?”
I personally don’t give a shit if 93% of the world believes in gods. I DO INDEED say that I don’t have any knowledge about the existence of any gods. Additionally, I do NOT believe in any gods.
Why do you keep referring to 93% of the world disagreeing with atheists? Do you realize that at one time almost everyone believed the world was flat? Whether the majority agrees or disagrees is irrelevant.
@Senta Christine
"Wouldn't it be more accurate for you to say that you don't know if God exists?"
The definition of an atheist is "a lack of belief in a god".
That is my position, that the complete lack of any empirical evidence does not prove a god exists. You are the one making the claim, thus is falls upon the claimant to prove. So what form of energy is this god? Radiation? Heat? Unicorn farts? Where is it located? How much energy are we talking about?
"Wouldn't it be more accurate for you to say that you don't know if God exists?"
Do you generally believe claims you don't know are true?
"you have no evidence or proof that God does not exist"
Argumentum ad ingorantiam fallacy again, go on tell us how your superstitious beliefs are rational again.
I can'r speak for anyone else but I didn't decide to be an atheist.
I simply don't believe the theistic claims that a deity exists as no objective evidence can be demonstrated for one, and it is a fact that humans create and worship fictional deities. Unlike some I have no problem with the label, but I didn't choose it.
The entire universe and all conscious life are evidence. We are surrounded by nothing but evidence of higher intelligence than mere humans. Humans are still trying to understand how the already existing and operating universe works.
It is meaningless to say that there is something greater than the whole.
"The entire universe and all conscious life are evidence."
No they're not - Hitchens's razor applied.
"We are surrounded by nothing but evidence of higher intelligence than mere humans. "
No we're not - Hitchens's razor applied.
Honestly --- People like you. I left a whole Church full of them. If it were not for people like you I never would have questioned religion.
I did not decide, it was forced on me. I was raised theist, but over the years eliminated all the BS and crap from religion, and discovered a hollow and very empty husk.
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