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GranTurismo posted...

ye, good pt. But i read, vaguely, that most americans do believe in one. Does that matter to you?

Nah. People can believe what they like but it doesn't make it true. I could be wrong but don't think I am.

I mean, at one point in time the majority of Americans were okay with slavery. It's easy to distort things, especially with religion, to justify beliefs in anything.

If there were a deity why don't they reveal themselves more often? With Christianity's God, for example, why no discernable involvement in the present day? I think of the Israelites when Moses was receiving the ten commandments. Unless I'm not remembering correctly they saw the parting of the Red Sea, received manna from the sky to sustain them, and suddenly want to create another god at the base of the mountain? Like, if God was real and the writings were valid, what human that encounters something so divine would deviate from what that deity wanted? It's a stretch for me to believe any of that really happened the way it's presented.

That tangent aside... We don't understand a great many things about the universe. Based on what we have discovered and from my understanding of that there's no way there's a deity or an afterlife. Maybe I'm wrong. But I just can't accept it rationally.