I'm sorry if this has already been said but to me Atheism is the ONLY sensible position to adopt.
There are quite literally thousands of religions (there are hundreds of christian denominations even).
You cannot hope to choose the correct one since any choice you made would be fundamentally arbitrary.
Each religion has its own holy text, all of which are merely a collection of tall tales, most of which are unverifiable or flat out wrong. (The Jews did not wander the desert for 40 years nor were they ever EVEN IN Egypt.)
Most religious texts are contradictory (The nativity for example) or flat out evil in places (check leviticus or deuteronomy, both are lovely).
If you were to attempt to choose a religion you would have to choose subjectively which would result in you simply choosing the one which you felt was the 'nicest' or 'fairest' but religion is by definition prescriptive. i.e God decides what is right or wrong regardless of what your own moral compass says.
Also there are certain philosophical problems with omnipotence and omniscience.
Can god make an object so heavy he cant lift it?
Can god tell the future? If he can then we live in a deterministic universe.. thus the idea of cosmic Sin is meaningless.
Also what about the idea of heaven?
heaven is supposed to be a perfect place free of sin.. so did god take away our free will? are we essentially robots in heaven?
To me there are so many problems with religion and so much mental gymnastics required to even suggest a god might be possible. It is simply foolish to suspend your rational thinking on this one issue. You wouldnt believe in unicorns without proof or in the face of all available evidence to the contrary so why does God get a free pass?
Also it should be noted that the burden of proof is on the theists not the atheists.
Present a good argument or piece of evidence and I'll rebuff it.. there simply isnt a good argument for the existence of god.. one doesnt exist.
There are quite literally thousands of religions (there are hundreds of christian denominations even).
You cannot hope to choose the correct one since any choice you made would be fundamentally arbitrary.
Each religion has its own holy text, all of which are merely a collection of tall tales, most of which are unverifiable or flat out wrong. (The Jews did not wander the desert for 40 years nor were they ever EVEN IN Egypt.)
Most religious texts are contradictory (The nativity for example) or flat out evil in places (check leviticus or deuteronomy, both are lovely).
If you were to attempt to choose a religion you would have to choose subjectively which would result in you simply choosing the one which you felt was the 'nicest' or 'fairest' but religion is by definition prescriptive. i.e God decides what is right or wrong regardless of what your own moral compass says.
Also there are certain philosophical problems with omnipotence and omniscience.
Can god make an object so heavy he cant lift it?
Can god tell the future? If he can then we live in a deterministic universe.. thus the idea of cosmic Sin is meaningless.
Also what about the idea of heaven?
heaven is supposed to be a perfect place free of sin.. so did god take away our free will? are we essentially robots in heaven?
To me there are so many problems with religion and so much mental gymnastics required to even suggest a god might be possible. It is simply foolish to suspend your rational thinking on this one issue. You wouldnt believe in unicorns without proof or in the face of all available evidence to the contrary so why does God get a free pass?
Also it should be noted that the burden of proof is on the theists not the atheists.
Present a good argument or piece of evidence and I'll rebuff it.. there simply isnt a good argument for the existence of god.. one doesnt exist.
