jackspade

i DO believe that religion is a fallacy in all its basis.

1.) I refuse to believe in a creature who has been spotted less than the Mongolian death worm, or the loveland frog people.

2.) I refuse to believe in god simply for fear of finding out that there is one when I die, because I know a lot of people would rather be 'safe than sorry'. I believe true faith can exist in absence of god, and true faith is standing by what you believe in no matter what, and no one, not even GOD can scare me out of my beliefs.

3.)  I refuse to accept the fact that while, its IMPOSSIBLE for life to simply 'exist' without a creator, Its INEVITABLE that god does. how can you use ones own power to justify its existence? I've heard the argument so many times.... "look how complicated we are, we MUST have been created"... If god can JUST exist without explanation than thats assuming that there are forces guiding the universe that ALLOW for that, in which case, WHY CANT WE!?

4.) Anthropic principle.

     4a.) The only reason we ask 'WHY ARE WE HERE?' is because we are here to ask it.
            Sure, its a million-trillion to 1 chance that life would evolve anywhere in the universe of its own                     accord, but theres a million-trillion places where it doesn't exist

    5a.) The only reason why the world seems so perfect, and "man made" is because if it didn't, we wouldn't be here to notice!

In my opinion god is ignorance. throughout history he has been nothing more than a method to explain the things that science had not yet been able to cover. As we slowly pull ourselves out of the dark, we begin to see god less and less in our every day lives, and accept the universe for what it really is.... Simply a functioning system with scientific basis. god no longer causes droughts, he doesn't move the stars. when you start coughing up blood you don't go to a church, you go to a doctor. God is ignorance because for as long as hes existed hes done so, only in the things that we can not explain. And as we learn more and more he slowly runs out of places to hide.

 The bible itself has, in many eyes, regressed from a book of proven fact to one of moral guidelines.
it was written in a time when it was OK to beat your wife, or to kill your daughter for having premarital sex. It was written by the SAME type of people, who we are now at war with.

I suppose the point im trying to make is

You don't NEED a god to have faith. i have faith in evolution, mainly the intangible form of idealogical evolution. if i want to survive after death, ill live a life worthy of emulation. Ill help to found the rules that others might live by, and learn from my mistakes so i can contribute to society and in a way, exist beyond the time i have been alloted. life isn't owed to anyone, look at the universe around you and notice its death and homogeny and realize that you will join it when you die. Its OK to not have an afterlife, because by all rights, you shouldn't have a life to begin with, and anything that says otherwise inside of you (in my opinion) is simply your instinct for self preservation screaming out at you against the inevitability of death. yes, I AM an atheist, and yes, I AM comfortable with the idea of death. when you abandon the idea of god you see what a miracle life really is.

recognize the fact that, in the absence of god, life itself is the most powerful force in the universe, and live in a way that reflects that.

And if all else fails, when i die I'll be proud to look him in the eye, and explain how I've lived a just live, without need for his influence, and that ive spent it standing up for what i believe in, and preaching what i believe to be true in order to better the world around me, out of the decency of my heart, rather than the will of an ancient scripture.