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Ken: I like your explanation of Voltaire better than mine.
JoB said:
according to a PEW survey… atheists know more about religion than those who believe in God…
I agree with that statement. In my experience, atheists know a lot about religion and have thought a lot about faith too. Conversely, so-called theists tend to know relatively little about religion (including their own) and don’t spend that much time thinking about what the God they claim to believe in really wants them to do. Instead, they just do exactly what they want to do (or what someone else tells them to do) and then claim it was all “God’s will.”
What a cop-out.
Though I’m not an atheist myself, I tend to have more respect for the moral decisions that atheists make, because I can assume that they at least put some thought into those decisions.
But still and all . . . Ken . . . don’t you ever find yourself wondering what this life has all been FOR? I mean . . . in the grand scheme of things?
If you say, simply: “I don’t know what it’s all been for.” — I can appreciate that.
But if you say: “I know what it’s all been for: Nothing.” — I find that to be a deeply dissatisfying answer, and one that does not jibe with my observations of human nature, to say nothing of the universe around us.
Mark Twain (a noted atheist) defined God as “a three letter word meaning ‘I don’t know.'”
That accords pretty closely with my own definition of God, actually. And although Twain meant it as a put-down, somehow I don’t feel put down by it at all.
For me too, God = I don’t know. (But I still want to anyway.)
Cool.
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