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thats pretty much what moth atheists believe is the truth
and there is alot of truth in it.. a large amount of people who "believe in god" have never really put any thought into their belief, they just have faith that their life isnt meaningless and when they think about death they prefer to imagine life after.. these are simple people.. and they make up about 90% of the world
atheists are generally very smart people... they think for themselves and reject tradition when they see no logic behind it. religion, the various bibles, the history of mankind, and the existence of "evil", "pain", and "suffering" are all very strong arguments for the free thinker to deny god. why should he believe.. the world is far from perfect, good people have bad things happen to them.. if god is all powerful and perfect and good, why do these things exist? of course he doesnt.. religion has always been an obstruction to progress in the world... and the stories contained in religious doctrine about creation and the history of the earth are obviously false.
so why would an intelligent person ever believe in such an obviously false idea? theres no proof a god exists, and everything contradicts his existence... right?
i cam to this conclusion at a very young age, as early as i could remember. i never bought into the concept of god. even though both my parents are believers, though not religious, and i never knew any atheists personally. i always saw that belief and religion were just a way for people to get over their fear of death. its was quite simple to see.
why do i believe now ? you think it was because i hit rock bottom as a drug addict.. no. although many drug addicts do use religion/god as a crutch to get them off their addictions. they simply trade one addiction for another. drugs for worship. however thats not the case with myself. in rehab i strongly rejected the idea that i need to submit to some kind of higher power. and i never did. it was almost two years ago now that i became a "believer". well, not really a believer per se but mre so a believer than a non believer or an agnostic. i really cant say anything for certain but things seem pretty clear to me when i meditate upon them. so what caused me to abandon my old opinion? well, for one, i can say i never would have been able to if i still connected god to religion. i think that is key, being able to think outside the box.. being able to imagine that all the religions, all the bibles, all the stories of god found here on earth are completely false... but yet god could still possibly exist. but that is something that allowed me to think of the issue differently than most people, most atheists can. the actualy thing that made me into a believer was LOGIC. the princple of causality. a certain line of questioninng that when you actually take a moment and consider it will drop down on your head like a 10 ton boulder and crush all of your preconceptions. that line of questioning pertains to the origin and cause for all things. where did everything come from ? what caused everything to happen ? ... these questions do not prove god exists.. but they make you understand that if there is an answer to those questions, the only possible answer is god. and with that knowledge you can then build upon it.
