Do you believe in God? Why/Why not?

[DarkD]

No

Because logically from every angle, all I see are downsides.

Morals - Religious people preach endlessly about their "high moral standards" but flout them whenever it serves them. They treat all the so called religious morals as "open to interpretation" and end up ignoring the lot of them.

Example: I once pulled over on the side of the road to help some guy with his car because it had run outta gas. I drove him all around, all while he said "god bless" every three seconds. I paid for his gas because I didn't care about money and I wanted to do a good thing. He told me he would come the next day and pay me back. Never heard from him again.

You want morals you teach need to teach a person "do unto others as you'd like done to yourself". Plain and simple empathy and you'll have better morals than religion could ever produce.

Heaven and Hell: The idea that you are sent to heaven or hell depending on how you lived in life is RIDICULOUS. Because no matter how much I hate someone, even Hitler, I can't justify sending them to hell because a person is a result of the life that he's been given. They say even Hitler had syphilis and combined with an upbringing that taught him all these foreign cultures were evil, how could anything else result? Condemning someone to eternal pain for living a life like that...

God's Responsible For Everything: I find it incredibly insulting to have people credit god with everything good that happens in the world and when something bad happens, its "God works in mysterious ways". Wrong, humanity is responsible for their own glory and their own faults. Great people do great things.

Religion is the ultimate excuse to ignore the world around you: People treat the bible like it's a compendium of the world's answers. Wrong. Christians use it as an excuse to ignore the damage they do to the environment. Animals are hunted to extinction and forests are stripped clean because "God will solve it later". Or they say, "who cares, according to this guy who added a bunch of biblical dates together, the apocalypse is next year."

Which one is the real religion?: The most obvious and glaring problem with organized religion. Why is yours better than the other ones?

Promotion of frauds: Believing in religion is an excellent way to start believing in conmen like faith healers, psychics, and other nonsense. Wanna talk about harmful gateway drugs? Religion is king.

The Big Bang Theory is more plausible: I have heard a lot of people say they find science even more ridiculous. Well, go live in a cave then. You're only at a computer playing games because of science. You don't understand it? Tough. Science is complicated as fuck, not everyone's an expert at everything.

Religion is an easy answer: This is ultimately religions best and worst feature. I've lost two brothers and my mother and I can understand that it's easier to say "they went to heaven". No, I won't do that. You want me to worship you, you get down here and tell me why I should. My mother sent my brother to his grave listening to false hopes and lies. I know how damaging those can be. One thing I've learned is that there are no easy answers. There's only the right answer.