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Originally Posted by stekim
Obviously. The fact is, there are an infinite number of things that do not exist, from pink snorklewackers to purple unicorns to George Bush's IQ. Because the list of things that do not exist is infinite, the only logical default position is that "A" does not exist until ample evidence is supplied to suggest "A" does indeed exist. If you claim to have a car that runs on french fries and waffles, there is absolutely no burden on me to prove you do not. It is entirely up to you, the person making the affirmative claim, to prove you have such a car. If you don't offer any evidence of said car, I can only conclude it does not exist. But I am certainly open to changing my mind.
As an atheist I am not stating "God does not exist". What I am stating is "To date I have seen no evidence to suggest the existence of a God." Same applies for your french fry and waffle car. I don't know for a fact it doesn't exist. I just haven't seen any evidence it does, so I don't believe it exists.
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I was 36 when my Mother died. My Dad had already passed away. I was for all intents and purposes an orphan. I was deployed to Kyrgyzstan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom which is the war in Afghanistan. I visited an orphanage at Charikar village near Bagram Airfield. I had a few boxes of crayons, the small 8 pack kind and I gave these out to some of the kids. A girl of probably 7 or 8 years with very bright sky blue eyes gave me a hug for this. You would think I'd given her the World.
She had nothing in this World. No parents. An extremely uncertain future in a war torn village.
I believe God exists in moments like that. Two orphans in the World, with diametrically different lives simply found a moment of solace.
or maybe you all are right. There's no God, there's no Heaven...suffering means nothing.
It's all pointless.
I choose hope, I choose God.