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Atheists & Agnostics

Binkie The Clown

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1. Even if I DID believe in god, I would be an atheist.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sun Feb 7, 2016, 12:47 PM

Feb 2016

"Serving" god is pointless if god is all powerful.
I am an upstanding, morally responsible person without having to ask god how to behave.

Therefore, going to church would do no good for god. Going to church would do no good for me. That leaves the church as the only possible beneficiary of my going to church, and why would I want to benefit a bunch of corrupt con men?

So in the end, the only rational approach is to act as if god does not exists even if he/she/it does. So I guess my most sincere answer to the question "Does god exist?" is "I don't care on way or the other."

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How to become an atheist..... [View all] Playinghardball Feb 2016 OP

Even if I DID believe in god, I would be an atheist. Binkie The Clown Feb 2016 #1

That worked for my mother Warpy Feb 2016 #2

The scientific(!!!) answer is to keep using your natural-born way of thinking. DetlefK Feb 2016 #3

Religion is completely un-natural. AlbertCat Feb 2016 #5

Everyone is BORN an atheist ... it's only social programming that turns them otherwise. eppur_se_muova Feb 2016 #4