I wouldn't. I do also draw a distinction between theists and dogmatic theists. The dogmatic ones tend to be the ones that lakc the ability to think on thier own. Dogmatic theists would be the types who take the Bible or other religious text as unadultarated, literal truth. Some thesits do question, just most that do tend to know the difference between what an agnostic and what an athiest is.
Anyway, the short answer: If there is a heaven, I'm going, but it's probably not your heaven.
Too bad the current Republican party has about as much in common with the original party as candy corn has to corn on the cob.
Like it or not, Christianity is at its essance a form of subjigation and control. Now, that's not to say that all Christains subscribe to this mantra. The core of Christianity is to blindly not question, because God "knows what is best for us all." That's the same argument every dictator in history has used to control his people. If you don't question, you give up your very humanity. You know who else doesn't question? Extremist Muslim terroists.
Silver and Jade, as far as I'm concerned, theists and athiests are equally dogmatic. Both chose to believe in something that has no factual evidence to support or discredit it. I myself would say I am anti-dogmatic (I'd like to think adogmatic, but that may be giving myself too much credit). Only a hardline theist, which I'm assuming you are, would ever confuse agnostic belief with athiestic belief. I find God to be highly unlikely, yes, but that d
God MUST be malevolent. No matter how kind he is to some, he must be cruel to others. If he favors one side in a battle, he must spurn the other. The fact that good and evil are subjective based upon your perspective. Not that I agree with them, but ask any muslim terrorist and he'll probably tell you that 9/11 was the ultimate display of justice. Ask me what I thought of the middle east on 9/12, and I'd tell you that I thought it should have been
The existance of 'stuff', with the possible excpetion of the opinions of quantum physisists, is evident all around you. The very fact that you concider yourself to exist proves the existance of stuff. God is not proved to exist anywhere. Religious texts speak of its existance, but saying God exists because the book says so, and the book is true because God exists is a circular argument, and circular arguments are one of the most elementary of logica
Your right, techincally, God can't be disproven. Neither can the hypothisis that fluffy pink bunnies roam the skies over some planet in the Alpha Centauri system. Can we make an educated guess as to both? Well, I'm going to put my money on no. However, that is too simple an approach to the question as a whole. First of all, there must be a distinction made between God and god. Upper-case God generally refers to the God of the Jeudeo-Chris
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