Why Ricky Gervais is an atheist

[Jay520]

If you guys enjoyed reading that, then you'll love this page.

"Why I'm Agnostic" by Steven Mathies

It's a very interesting, reasonable, and articulate piece. Everyone should give it a read. Even if you speed read it, so be it. Though, you're bound to read one or two sentences that'll encourage you to read the entire piece.

Here's an exerpt that I thought expressed my own ideas better than I could ever imagine.

"...a God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell--mouths mercy, and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!"

Full page: http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/testimonials/matthies.html

One thing I thought was interesting was how he "tried" to believe in god, but could not. I really hope you guys give it a read.