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Zkuq on 28 January 2016
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VGPolyglot said:
Zkuq said:
VGPolyglot said:
My biggest problem is that people believe in things without proof. When I question people why they believe in God or their religion based on their faith alone and without any proof, their reaction is generally "prove that he doesn't exist/that it's not true." That's not how it works: are supposed to believe in Santa Claus, Leprechauns and the Lochness Monster exist until it's proven that they don't?

There's less room for the existence of your counter-examples because they obey the laws of nature. This supposed God does not, which leaves them much more space to hide in. As much as I'd like to agree with this argument, I'm not sure I can. Now let's talk about how convenient it is that the laws of nature don't apply to God, leaving them so much space to hide in...

Isn't going against the laws of nature the biggest argument against the existence of God? I believe that there are two core reasons why people believe in God:

 

  1. People do not like not knowing something: for many people it is hard to simply accept that there are things that we do not know
  2. People are afraid of death/hardships and rely on the idea of God and the afterlife as a coping method
Whether or not people agree with on this, I don't know.

Reply to italic: Sort of. It's an argument that makes it easy to believe God doesn't exist because it sounds ridiculous how something could exist without complying with the laws of nature. But on the other hand, how can you comply with the laws of nature when you're the one who created them in the first place? In that light, it only makes sense not to comply with the laws of nature. How do you counter such an argument without resorting to some sort of a belief yourself? I don't think you can. It all comes down to believing that the existence of God is unlikely all things considered. I don't think it's possible to prove, without any doubt, that God doesn't exist, because their very nature is such that it's not possible to conclude anything about them unless they decide to reveal themselves voluntarily.