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I Know There Is No God. That is a Fact! Any Supernatural Thought is an Impossibility. All Religions are Wrong!
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barjoe 9 Dec 17
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You guys need a hobby.

I won't speak for him, this is a hobby for me.

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I have never seen credible evidence either way, therefore I remain agnostic on the issue of whether a god exists or not.
However to stir the pot a little I will say that, I do not think it an important question, with any value even as a question. Since the existence or none existence of a god would make no difference to anything.

I think that muffins are much more interesting.

ABOUT MUFFINS.
Suppose for a minute, and for the sake of argument only, that there is a god, and an afterlife, including heaven and a hell; and that the god chooses whether people go to heaven, or if some go to hell, in fact the whole theist deal. Not only that, but the criterion on which the god makes the choice is based on the type of muffins they eat. ( Note: “eat” not prefer, this is not about free will or anything like that.) People who eat lemon muffins go to heaven and people who eat chocolate muffins go to hell, with limbo for those who don't eat muffins at all, naturally.

Would that make a difference to your life ? Would you give up your chocolate muffins for an eternity of joy, and all the lemon buns after death you could ever eat ? Perhaps you would. But there is one vital thing that I forgot to mention about this god, which is that; this particular god, does not tell you about his thoughts on muffins, or how they affect your afterlife, in fact it keeps the whole thing a big secret just to itself, so that you have no way of knowing which muffins you have to eat.

Then in that case, of course, you could not make the appropriate changes to your life, or save your soul anyway. In fact muffins, the gods preferences and even that god, would not impact on your life at all.

The point is this. That a gods, souls, the afterlife etc. have no effect on anything, unless that god, spirit, or someone who knows, tells you about it, and you therefore have some knowledge of god's cake prejudices. Making this the big difference between religion, which pretends to offer knowledge of god the afterlife etc., and none belief which does not. Which is why the difference between atheists, humanists, agnostics and even deists, is so small and unimportant by comparison, because none claim any knowledge of gods preferences, and it is the pretense of fake knowledge, and of god given authority, or even the authority of tradition which makes the big difference to the religious and secular views. Compared with that the differences between atheist and agnostic, even deist, are trivial to the point of vanishing.

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A monotheistic god is a relatively modern invention, and only replaced animistic spirits in the last two thousand years. Evolution essentially disproves the Christian god with its overwhelming evidence.

Science reveals some remarkable puzzles: The symmetry of the Standard Model, the order of physics, 'fine tuning'... One could propose a god for that, but the proposal is actually a god-of-the-gaps argument with still no evidence, and not really explaining anything.

If there were a god, it has hidden itself from us and given no (meaningful nor reliable) instructions. Such a god is SO elusive that if said god were no longer existing, no one could tell the difference.

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I have a lack of belief in any gods. To say there is no god has a burden of proof.

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I wouldn't go that far.
I find God to be highly implausible.
So was time dilation, until we got the math settled.
If there's something to it science will find it, not theology, and what they find will not resemble any religion humans have ever thought worthy of repeating.
I wish I knew more, but I'm a virus living on a scum bubble at the edge if an ocean, and the scum bubble is beyond my understanding in size alone.
Honestly 99% of known truths are just taking someone else words for it, because why not?
It's why "common sense", "faith", and "authority" are all such lies.
Trust NOTHING, especially the truth.

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I agree that the evidence shows there is no god but I have to stop there and not make it a claim. If you make a claim you must produce the evidence. There is no evidence either way.

You've come the closest, so far.

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When I was a little girl, I “knew” there was no way anyone would ever go into space, least of all, go to and land on the moon. When I was not quite 20, someone did…Neil Armstrong being the first human to walk on the moon. Science has determined SO MUCH since I was a little girl, there are many things that are today fact that were once fiction…or unknown. While I agree that existence of a superior being is IMPROBABLE, I remain agnostic because I must always leave room for what is unknown or not yet understood. I will never believe in the entity described by humans to be their god, but I do not KNOW if it is possible for there to be a god, so I stick with with agnosticism, acting as though there is probably no god.

I like it, but I'm still waiting...

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Depends on what we call "Supernatural." Some call Tao a Supernatural idea but I think it's based in science. I'll put out a video on Xmas Day about this. So is it anything unseen or does it involve a determination by that unseen force?

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I feel the same way. I've not seen nor heard of even the most minute evidence of any god though there seems to overwhelming evidence that there are no gods.

Though, I can understand that need to cling to the belief in a god. Though I think I've always had many doubts and questions about god/religion I did at one time feel that I needed a god to try and make sense of the world. Indoctrination can have that affect on a person.

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I do not know that as a fact. My conclusion that there is no god(s) is based on how my brain interprets reality and I see no evidence that a supernatural exists and no supernatural entities.

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