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[quote=Anonymous]I am an agnostic/atheist because I have never seen any evidence that god/s or an afterlife exist.  The stories written by men thousands of years ago and then rewritten and translated and re-translated don't count as evidence for me.

I find it difficult to believe in a higher being who creates an imperfect world with imperfect creatures in it and then lets us have at it while expecting us to worship him/her/it even though he/she/it doesn't ever show a face or pop in to say hello every once in a millenia.

Also I always felt the angry god of the old testament was fairly repulsive.  What about that story where he sends the angel to kill all the first borns of the Egyptians?  Horrifying.  They didn't do anything to deserve that.  (By the way, do you think those innocent babes went straight to heaven?)  Or sending a flood to kill all of humanity (including children) except for one family because he couldn't stand us anymore?  Maybe he should have made us better beings in the first place.  Anyway, this is not a god I want to believe in.

Jesus had some pretty great teachings and I'm cool with that.  Doesn't mean I believe he had to "die for our sins" (never made sense to me) or that he rose from the dead.  The idea that god impregnates a teenager with his own son just seems bizarre.

You probably don't believe in Greco-Roman deities or the Norse gods/goddesses.  Why not?

In the end, I actually don't care what you believe.  It's your call.  Religion brings a lot of comfort to people.  Fine.  But it doesn't bring comfort to me and I don't know why that bothers you.[/quote]

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