1. I believe that there is no God.

Comment #53167 by jlinden31 on June 29, 2007 at 10:55 pm

Here is the problem. You can prove the elephant in the trunk. Its the five step method and I live my life by it. I am a cultural anthropologist living in Orange County (which is like living in a very wealthy extension of the bible belt). I have learned where man creates his gods and why. I can trace any savior, god, God, myth back to a starting point and a cultural need for that symbol (god).
Step 1-Is there an Elephant in the trunk, I will guess no, certainly not a full grown elephant and not a living one but we'll test it.
Step 2- Has the weight of the car changed from its usual weight, if so is there anything else in the car that could contribute to that change without it being and elephant.
Step 3- Lets weigh the car, open the trunk, clean the trunk out, check to see if any elephant fibers or DNA were ever present, and finally check the car for peanuts.
Step 4- Having found no evidence for an elephant ever having been in the car science then dictates that within a 98.00 chance of being correct, we have no elephant and probably never have. This is a Theory. It may change one day, I may have to test the elephant hypothesis again one day but for now...no, there is no elephant.
Step 5-Test again.
I test mans logic. Mans need for fitting into what we perceive as a big picture. Being lonely in the universe and feeling the impending death that comes to us all is possibly the worst sickest feeling I have ever had. I understand why we need ghosts and legends, folklore, myths, and gods. We use them as guides and moral makers. We use them to create structure in our society and questioning these things tends to throw our own view points into chaos.
No, there is no God. There have been countless gods to be a theist over but there is no God anymore than there is an Elephant in my trunk.
Those who would call atheism a belief system are partly correct. Are you a scientist or someone who possesses scientific critical thinking that has led them to a 98.00 certainty or are you someone whose perspective of the world just doesn't jive with dogma and creation? There must be several types of atheists, as many as variations of Christians or Buddhists. There must be because we all have our own eyes and ways of seeing our world we just share a common "belief" or outcome to our own perceptions despite our own ways of getting there.
No god in no heaven. Thanks for letting me ramble.