09-03-2006, 08:27 AM
Quote:The Christians are using logic too.
Maybe a single christian does this, because of the way his society around him is.
In most religious countries, be they christian, muslim, hindu or whatever normal people never even meet atheists, they never even meet people that don't agree with them. For them it is simply unbelievable to think that there is no God, just because everybody else thinks the same.
When the government (like Iran, but also the US) starts to get involved as well, even for a person that is always questioning everything it becomes very very hard not to believe in a God.
Your comments about atheists believing in a big bang, which they didn't witness themselves firsthand, and so calling this a believe as well, is a bit a too simple way of looking at this.
Some other things why I (personally) don't believe in God is that many things that in the ages were said by the church as being true, have been proven to be wrong, and this is a continuing process. And of course one can say that what the church says has nothing to do with there being a God. True, but then why go to church, why prohibit gay marriages, why offer animals, why say women should wear burqas etc. etc.
I stick with the science part, that only on the part of the proof that there is or is not a God has not given an answer yet, but for the rest it is what helps us advance. Religion keeps pulling us back.
It has in this thread already been remarked by someone that morals are anyway a human invention, so there goes the second to last reason that religion would have a purpose. The last one is the comfort people get in believing that their deceased loves ones are waiting for them in a better place.