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Originally Posted by Rasczak  This is why I have a hard time understanding atheistic beliefs. (I'm defining an atheist who demands there can be no God, rather than the agnostic who believes there isn't enough evidence to know there is a God.) What evidence is there that the existance of God is impossible? I submit that any such evidence is based on a problematic process of drawing conclusions. |
I agree entirely on the issue of Atheism - it in itself requires a leap of faith (in the conclusion that there is no God). I've seen no convincing evidence to support that conclusion. Certainly I choose not to believe in a single, all powerful super-being sitting on high, playing 'God' with humanity. That's what lead me to come to my own personal belief-system about life, the universe, etc.
To me, Atheism is a cop-out, and not so different from the acceptance of formal religion that most Atheists seem to despise so much, as the Atheists would like to believe.
Agnosticism seems to me a much more valid a position to take. And although I do have a belief-system myself, I acknowledge fully I may be wrong, so I am an agnostic at heart really. If there is an afterlife of any description, I may (or may not) find out about it when I'm dead.