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[quote=Anonymous]OP here to answer the opposite question:  why do I believe in God?

First, because I can use my intellect to reason the likelihood that there is a God, a First Mover, an Uncaused Cause, a Necessary Being, an Absolute Standard of Perfection, a Designer (not my original ideas, of course).  There are the arguments from conscience and universal belief and change and efficient causality and...all of these intellectual discussions are beyond the scope of DCUM, and have been espoused by much greater minds than mine.  So I will stay with my personal story.

When I did not believe in God, I wrote an opinion column for my college paper.  I wrote an article about interracial relationships.  I argued there was nothing wrong with them.  I was inundated with hate mail.  I was astounded.  Surely everyone knew racism was wrong?

But why is racism wrong?  Who says?  On whose authority?  Many people have been racist.  Racism has been found in pracially every human civilization ever.  So what if I thought it was wrong?  Wasnt that just my opinion?  Don't we all just have our opinions, and nothing more?

That led to my intellectual pursuit, and I found satisfaction in natural law theory.  My mind was satisfied.  I knew.  But I did not believe.  I did not want to believe.

Why?  Because if I simply acknowledged the logic, the data, then this information could be kept at arm's length.  I could pull it out for deep conversations, and then put it away.  In other words, I wanted to just stay on the journey, and not actually arrive anywhere, make any commitments.  I wanted to be Socrates, just asking questions and turning over the answers.  Somehow, if I did that, I could still do whatever I wanted.  I could be free.  I wanted that freedom.

The ultimate authority, the Author of natural law, was not something I wanted to submit to, because if I did, I would have to change my ways.  I did not want to do that.[/quote]

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