I spent the first 32 years of my life trying to give Christianity a chance. I went to church regularly for several years. Somehow it all never seemed exactly right. One day I decided that I had heard enough from the proponents of Christianity. I decided to learn more about other religions including atheism. I wound up deciding that I was an agnostic with strong atheistic suspicions.
I'm 99% sure God doesn't exist. That last 1% accounts for my agnosticism (if that's even a word). As anyone with a background in logic knows, it is nearly impossible to prove a negative. Just because you haven't found something yet doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Hence the persistence of such legends as Bigfoot and UFO's. While you can strongly doubt that they exist there are no practical ways to totally disprove their existence.
Another thing that I'm pretty sure of is that if God does exist he is probably nothing like anything any of the major religions describe. There are so many problems with the concept of God that they have come up with that it seems unlikely that their beliefs are accurate.
I will clarify what I mean in some of the posts that will follow. Also, don't worry that this will primarily be a blog about religion. I will give my views on all topics that I'm interested in.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Okay your 99% sure God doesn't exist. This is more than one comment worth of discussion :)..
ReplyDeleteAs you've said its impossible to or nearly impossible to prove the non-existence of anything hence the ridiculous Flying Spaghetti Monster attack.
So first off I would say we cannot discuss God using science. I have went over and over debates and you cannot evaluate the existence of a being outside reality using science that is inside of that reality. Can you agree with this?
Given that the being in question is supposed to have created science you can. I will grant that you can not define him completely with science, but you can infer a lot about his nature given what he chose to create.
ReplyDelete