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Originally Posted by Andrew Jackson's Hair
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Originally Posted by Hamadryad
I always wonder why agnostics DON'T take the next logical step and just not believe at all, BECAUSE it seems logical.
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But it isn't logical. If I showed you a room with 100 boxes, and told you that there might be a penny in one of them, how many would you have to search to determine that a penny wasn't there? 100 boxes.
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Problem being, you can show me the boxes, and you can show me a penny, and I can verify that both of these items exist. It's not a BELIEF in their existence; I touched the boxes, I handled the penny, and even though you
might not have put the penny under any of the boxes, I still know that the penny exists.
Like most (not all, most) atheists, I'm open to proof which can be verified and repeated. I haven't seen any. I don't feel like I'm BETTER than religious people; I just think I think more clearly in some areas than they do. I was never pressured to be involved with any religion, I'm not getting back at any of my relatives...I just don't feel that there is any reason whatsoever to believe in Singular God, any more than I think there's a reason to believe in Zeus or Loki or Kali or Moroni.