None of the smart people, including Einstein, Doystoevky, Steve Jobs, Da Vinci, Newton etc...are atheist.

None of the people I actually know in freemasonry, government, high cultural/media/political position is an atheist.

Why? Because you really must be a dumb, ignorant and boring fùck to be an atheist.

WHICH do not mean that I am religious...I'm spiritual, I do believe in God, and in my own sense, he simply doesn't do, act or prevent good or evil...it just is.

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E) Because if he didn't let these terrible things happen, even MORE terrible things would happen as a result.. (or in other words it's for a "greater cause")

This is my mom's explaination at least when I posed this problem to her. Doesn't make much sense to me, but I suppose this is a more sufficient answer than simply "he doesn't want to." Still seems to me a bit of a cop out though..

There is no God.

He can't. God doesn't interfere with anything, he simply created the universe and everything inside it. Who knows what he's doing now.

I disagree. There are people who enjoy the suffering of others.

There are smart atheists, just like there are smart theists. One reason why you don't know that many atheists in government, is because it's considered political suicide, and people won't vote for them. Also, stating that you don't know any? Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong were atheists I believe. Also, spirituality is a type of religious belief.

Spoken like forementionned ignorants.

A. I'm not 'murican, I'm French, a laic state (Church and Government have been separated for a century).

B. There are NO smart atheist. There are decent, good, even successful ones but certainly not smart, talented, interesting ones.

C. Stalin and Mao indeed were atheists. They killed hundreds of millions of people trying to impose failed fascistic states: that's what atheists do.

D. Not. False, simply. Religiosity is a type of spirituality, not the other way around, there are even atheists arguing they can be spiritual (which of course is completely semanticaly wrong)

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waiting for Xbox One to release, what DO YOU THINK?

because..... man has free will.

A church loving lady at my job once told me that in Haiti they got hit with that earthquake because they do voodoo and also do not worship the one true god, so the true god punished them.

So I voted "He causes them".