#stheism

[ibaconi]

Is There a God?

The big question: Is there a God? And, ultimately, what difference does it make? My religious experience is as weird as it is rich and full.

[itsjustlyle]

Imagine a missing person report results in police visiting a person's house, only to find out that the person was brutally murdered and had been dead for around 72 hours. The event is the murder. Pieces of evidence of what happened during the murder are things like bloody shoe prints, bruising, blood spatter, etc. No forced entry is suspected and no abnormal fingerprints are found. Also, the victim has no known family, friends, and there are no witnesses. We can trace things from the present back to the event, depending on the amount and preservation of the evidence. Determining what happened just prior to the event requires witness accounts, people who can explain what the person was like and who they hung out with. It also requires empirical evidence to tie the witness accounts to reality. The big bang is the event. All of our evidence points back to it occurring, but the "why" and "what led to it" are not known. The fact that it happened billions of years ago makes it rather difficult to find a witness. Scientists will say the big bang is the furthest event that they can describe with the available evidence. Theists (armed with their invisible friend) will claim to know things they couldn't possibly know, belittle anyone who doesn't know it, and defend their knowledge with faith instead of evidence. That might have been how murder trials went back when the abrahamic religions were created, but luckily it's no longer done that way in civilised nations.

Brandon Adams

[thedragoninmygarage]

keep it to yourself.