| If there were any such thing as incontrovertible proof of God's existance I'm entirely sure whoever had it would let the whole world know in short order. God is, of necessity unprovable, that's is why he requires you to have "faith". And as we've all gone over in these posts, faith is what you call believing in something WITHOUT proof.
Herein lies the problem for me and a lot of other athiests on this thread. We base our understanding of this world entirely on what can be tested and proven in an effort to run our lives as we wish without outside coercion as far as is possible and make an objective, educated judgement as to where we came from and what the future holds. Enter religion: a moral code that is forced upon or willingly accepted by people with no testable or provable basis or reasoning for forcing you to abide by said code.
When I go and study religions and find out where it started and why I ALWAYS find some sordid origins and multiple PROVABLE inconsistancies in the claims of "sacred texts" many of which I laid out in previous posts.
I often hear from the religious that my position is a result of my own human pride and arrogance and there may be some truth to this. My counterpoint to this is that a desire for personal liberty is not a sinister motivation and that I'm perfectly willing to supress selfish motivations insofar as I look down upon any personal action that infringes upon another individual's person or property. Indeed it seems to me that the religious person's desire to force others to adhere to their religious moral code is in itself a much more arrogant and pridefull motivation than any other.
"Any man willing to trade freedom for security deserves neither." -Benjamin Franklin |