Luke O
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I always love the nonbelievers and their reasons why God doesn't exist.
I struggle at times to believe in a god, but I do know there is some sort of higher being out there...after all, the earth and life itself came into existence from nothing.
When people start blaming God for every bad thing that happens in their lives, that's where they fail to realize God gave everyone free will in how to handle their trials.
They can either stay mad at Him for giving them such a harsh life or do something about it to get their lives to where they want to be.
There's also Satan out there so if people are questioning why there are bad people who do bad things who don't care what they do...that's from Satan, not God.
And some people allow their demons to over power themselves.
If God doesn't exist then how did this very earth and everything living come into existence?
The second sentence there is something I come across often, as it's assumed to be a "well it must have done" about the universe coming into existence from nothing. For a start, it's impossible to make something from nothing, but you can make something from something. It isn't conclusive that we were magicked into existence, I'd say it is conclusive that we weren't, unless we can create something from nothing in the lab (but then we'd know we wouldn't need a god to do that).
I see gods as an obsolete stage in human development. They were thanked for the rains to save harvest, feared when lightning struck or earthquakes shook, back when we did not understand how things worked and we felt that we needed something to project our feelings on. We thanked the gods for giving us children and tried to understand their motive when diseases, conflict or famine took those children away from us. As this relationship with our intangible punchbags developed, so did their complexity - they had names, appearances, stories, families, rivalries and hierarchies. We felt we could touch them, be with them, talk to them and receive punishment when we went against the rules we made up in their name. We started to murder our children for the gods' favour and purge undesirables from our tribes. We would also go to war with other tribes in their name, relentlessly slaughtering those who worshipped other deities. We'd built grand cities and decorate them with images and sigils of our gods, appoint intermediaries to deal with them on our behalf, all the while fortifying our own belief system by indoctrinating our young as soon as they were able to understand and question the world.
Religions themselves would evolve and spawn new religions, sometimes offshoots, sometimes hybrids. They would swarm to take over the entire planet, crushing and absorbing smaller religions as they progressed, fighting the bigger religions when they collided with them.
And then you have some atheist pointing out the ridiculousness of it all, and they won't believe a single word of it.