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Originally Posted by Tom

Christianity is a wider subject than just praying to God or whatever. Religious experiences, life after death, miracles etc all come under it. Basically the unexplained. Some proof is based on eye witness testimony and I don't think it should be dismissed straight away just because it sounds daft.

Sorry if I sound kinda vague, its hard to argue against something you don't believe in ...

Yeah it's very vague. No hard proof of God exists. That's a fact proveable by the fact that relgious people have faith and Atheists exist. If hard proof for God existed, atheists would not.

Eye witness testimony means nothing. Especially when it's from religious people. Thousands of reports exist detailing encounters with aliens, ghosts and monsters. Doesn't mean they exist [except for aliens, of course, who stand a very probably chance of existing].

Originally Posted by Toasteee

b) I don't actually exist. When I die someone else will be started.


I totally think that.

So how can you die if you don't exist?

Originally Posted by setanta

I've always liked that quote. But yeah, I think you're just very cynical when it concerns organized religion, right? I think deep down you believe in a soul or a higher state of being or am I wrong?

I used to. Up until last week, in fact, but all of a sudden and for no specific reason I became a bona fide atheist. My spiritual views got so diluted as they went along that they amounted to no fixed belief anyway, I was merely hanging on in the hope of making the world more interesting. But I have replaced reading religion with reading science and astronomy and really, that's far more fascinating to me now so I kind of dropped my vague beliefs in unproveable things just to appear more glamorous.

It's pointless sitting on the fence and allowing for the possibility of something after you die just for the sake of it. If that's the case there is an infinite scope of riddiculous, trivial things I could choose to believe in just because they could exist. Which nicely leads back to the teapot .