What's even more appalling is your complete and total lack of critical thinking skills. How can you say there is a god? Based on your own subjective experiences, you extrapolate to a god who rules us all? That's appallingly ignorant. And most of us atheists are pretty sure there's no god, but we usually don't say so for sure. There could be some form of universal being, however unlikely. But the god of the bible has been conclusively proven to not exist. Get used to it.
If you want to insult theist critical thinking skills, then let's talk about
your thinking skills. If
you had critical thinking skills, or at least the ability to understand where another was coming from, then you would most certainly be able to understand why believe in God.
By definition, an atheist that "is pretty sure there isn't a god, but doesn't say so for sure" is not an atheist. This "atheist" is actually an agnostic.
Once again, your "proof" that the God of the Bible does not exist is flawed. If you were to "test" the God of the Bible for existence, you must first have honest faith that he is there in order for him to answer your prayers. To disprove the God of the Bible, you must use the Bible's standards for the Bible's God to be there. It is impossible to disprove this God using your method, for God is not your science experiment and will not do tricks for you like a little lap dog. You come to him in honesty, and you come to him with honest faith and belief in him, and he responds. This is how I came to learn of him, and whether you accept that - and the testimonies of thousands of others - is completely up to you. Might I suggest that before accepting or not accepting these testimonies, you do not use personal insults; it may make debates go one hell of a lot smoother for you
... but that's just my own Arrogant, Judgmental, All-Knowing Opinion.
Speaking of which, I do not claim to be all-knowing of the mind of my "god-thingies". And in fact, neither does anyone else. It would appear to me as most
atheists wish to know all about the mind of my "god-thingies". So, to answer the atheist questions, we respond with information given from the Bible.
I demand answers that make sense from you xians. Don't dance around the subject. The earth is fucked and you have the gall to say it's in the hands of some loving, kind and just god. Please be clear on this. How can you even like this bastard?
I'm going to tell you the Christian answer, because that's what you're asking for. I can't give you the answer that you want, because I don't know what answer you want, so I'm giving you the answer that I think is right. As I do this, I'm choosing to ignore the profanity.
The absolute beginning is where one should begin to give you the answer that you are demanding. God created everything. We don't know
how he created it (maybe he made the Big Bang go Bang, maybe he said 'let it be' and it was done, but we won't ever know, now will we?), but he did. One of his angels decides that he doesn't agree with God, and long story short, is removed from God's group of angels. God has humans walking the Earth now- Adam and Eve. Satan (the rebellious angel) is still holding a grudge against God, so he decides to deceive God's children into thinking that eating God's food will make them all-knowing. This was a direct disobedience of what God wanted - God didn't want them to take from his tree. It wasn't taking from the tree that bothered him, I imagine, it was that he gave them
everything, and they turned around and wanted just a little bit more. This is greed. This is pride. This is self-centeredness. This is the beginning of humanity, is it not?
This is where it all goes downhill. From pride, greed, and self-centeredness stems hate. Hate that I'm poor, so I have to go kill someone, just because I can. Hating all the atheists for being atheists, hating Buddhists for being Buddhists, hating Christians for being Not Christian Enough. (I don't, it's just a little analogy-type thing).
Does this answer your question at all? I'm not trying to dance around your question. I can't dance, anyway. Tell me if it didn't, and I'll try again.
This is where you are tragically, horribly wrong.
Theists believe that GOD has rules that are not subject to question, and that only certain people are fit to interpret these rules, and if that means the genocide of entire sects of people who do not follow your god (the CORRECT one), then so be it.
What theists are you talking about? Jehovah's Witnesses? Not all theists, as stated, believe in the same thing.
God's rules are subject to question - as in, "What does this rule mean?" - not question - as in, "Why do we have this stupid assed rule?" ... There are no "certain people" fit to interpret these rules in Christianity. Interpret it as you wish. Any interpreter that you go to that disagrees with your logic? Don't believe him, as far as I'm concerned. If he's telling you that X = Z, but your logic brings you to X = X, then which one of you is more likely to be right? He
could be right, but you might be right too.
If you don't want to follow God, then don't. You have the free will to do whatever you please.
