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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you think too much about it, you might lose your faith. So if you truly believe, you'll always trust God and be able to come up with a reason why he does what he does.  If you can't explain God, then you might stop believing that he exists.  That prospect can be frightening or freeing.[/quote]

Frightening? If you only knew how terrifying this sounds to me.

Please answer this question: what other thing in your life do you treat this way?[/quote]

e.g., Santa Claus - I was skeptical after a while, but the thought of not believing in him was tempered by knowing the gifts would continue and that other big kids and all adults also did not believe in him. Also, in the case of Santa, there was peer pressure after a certain age not to believe.

In our culture, it's often the opposite with God.  There is societal pressure to believe in him, or at least not to openly say you don't believe.  It's OK to express doubts, though, with the expectation that you will return to belief.

Please answer this question:  What about the prospect of there being no God sounds terrifying to you?[/quote]

PP here.  None.  I do not believe in a god. [b] It's the rationalization and denial that is terrifying to me[/b].  There is no other aspect of life, no matter how trivial, that requires that much denial of reality.  I blame many of the world's ills on it. [/quote]

Not rationalizing or denying -- just explaining how some people think.[/quote]

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