Atheist, do you oppose the very idea of a God or is it the practices being carried out in Gods name?

<do you oppose the very idea of a God> The concept of deities doesn't bother me--for all I know gods actually exist, but for reasons known only to themselves choose to remain completely invisible and undetectable by any means. All I know is that I don't believe in them.

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<or is it the practices being carried out in Gods name?> And there lies the problem. People should be free to privately believe whatever they like, and to live their lives however they want. Where they cross the line is when they think me specifically or society in general should conform to their views.

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I oppose the perpetuation and proliferation of claims, for which there is no substantial evidence. I oppose the idea that one can use these same claims to dictate how another should live. I oppose the infiltration of these claims into public policy. I feel that it is abhorrent what people are capable of when they think they have a divine permission, or in some cases, even a responsibility, to harm others, or force others to act in accordance with their own unsubstantiated beliefs.

Do I oppose the idea of a god? no... I just haven't found one that isn't brimming with logical fallacies or has caused a belief system that creates more good than harm.

Do you oppose the very idea of Poseidon?

Over the centuries, thousands of otherwise intelligent people "knew" that He used His divine Power to move the tides, EVERY ocean, EVERY day.

And when Jesus walked on water, which is the most likely God to be just below the surface, supporting Jesus?

That's right, it was Poseidon!

If YOU don't believe in Poseidon, with all that evidence, why NOT?

Wotan, the Chief of the Gods, makes it APPEAR as if the tidal movements are due to 'natural forces"

But Wotan does that just to Test Our Faith, the same way the God of the Bible will not allow Jesus to manifest Himself physically in front of a crowd of Unbelievers.

Bottom line is:

The list of Gods and Goddesses in which atheists do not believe, is thousands of names long. which means it is just a tint bit longer than yours.

And, of course, the inability of the various Gods and Goddesses to use Their divine Powers to PREVENT Their followers from committing atrocities, seems to indicate a DEFINITE lack of concern, and/or existence.

Now, considering that the Biblical God is reported to have been capable of turning Mrs Lot into a pillar of salt, for merely LOOKING in the wrong direction, why wouldn't He use some of that Power to prevent damage?

Without interfering with the Free Will of the shooters, He COULD just turn the bullets into butterflies.

Neither.

I simply am unable to believe

that any of the thousands

of hypothetical gods or goddesses,

that people have imagined,

including the hypothetical God,

that you are imagining,

is at all likely to be real.

I don't oppose religious practices

that affect only the believer.

I oppose anyone, writing into law,

limitations on anyone else's rights,

based only on superstition

(imagined supernatural forces, places or beings).

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Regards,

John Popelish

We don't oppose the idea of god at all we merely observe there is no evidence one exists.

Neither. There are no gods to have an idea or a practice.

Both, although it's not all of the second, some of those things are good

I don not believe in a god. that's it. i see reason to believe in an invisible sky man that watches everything everybody says, does and thinks.

The psychopaths who think it is real and want to force it onto everyone.

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