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[quote=Anonymous]I was raised religious. I don't understand some people who say "religious people are such hypocrites/a**holes so I don't believe." Perhaps I misunderstood and this was merely what originally got them questioning. But, the behavior of people or what is written in a book has nothing to do with the probability of a higher power existing - certainly not when there are various religions and even non-religious people who believe in a higher power. However, I do not.

For me, it was studying probability theory, statistics, and the scientific method in grad school that really made me realize both the flaws in the arguments for the existence of a higher consciousness as well as the extremely, extremely low probability that something like that exists. It also, as Richard Dawkins pointed out, only makes any explanation of how the universe began even less plausible, because to posit a higher power requires an explanation of how the higher power came to exist. I have no ill will toward religious people except when they do violent things in the name of their religion or try to control my life. But irrespective of that, it just makes no sense for a "god" to be floating around out there.[/quote]

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