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I find the evidence in favor of god or gods to be unpersuasive.  And I find the burdens on one's lifestyle, world view and self-image resulting from a belief in god, to be untenably onerous; for theists, "belief" alone is never sufficient; what is required is worship, obeisance and fealty to this "god".  If there does turn out to be a god, he/she/it/they has done a miserable job of stimulating our human intelligence with reason to believe in him/her/it/them.  Am I 100% certain, or 99% certain?  No.  Percentage of certainty implies a means of conducting careful, quantifiable experiments - and in the hunt for god, "careful and quantifiable" are not attainable adjectives.  I live my life in the conviction that physical nature is all that there is, and all that is possible of being.  Some facts about nature may be too recondite or complex for human knowledge to partake, but that is a limitation of humanity, and not of the facts.  And if, by some imponderable quirk, there is a genuine "god" hiding under the mantle of those facts, I would dishonor my humanity by entertaining such belief, by craven hedging against one's own better nature.

I'm 100 percent certain that god fucked up.

...beliefs deemed maltheistic in nature, depicting God as represented in the OT as a wrathful, genocidal, malicious demiurge.

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A fuckup need not be wrathful, genocidal or malicious.

Yeah, Aaron, a gnostic who's an atheist.

Thank you, and agreed. Deep down they know.

You're an agnostic. You can't simultaneously hold the beliefs that there exists gods or no gods. It's a contradictory stance.

It's like saying I believe that there exists unicorns or no unicorns. It doesn't really mean anything. Why not just say you believe in anything ever posited and call it a day?

And yes, the idea of god's existence is bat shit insane.








I feel the same way about gods.





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