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"yes, of course you can believe, but WHY do you believe? I don't see any compelling reason to believe." -monospaced.
That's a fair argument. If you don't feel compelled, then don't even worry about it.
However, might I suggest (for the sake of argument) that often science and knowledge have seen major breakthroughs because someone had a leap of faith about how they thought the world to work. Heliocentrism, the theory of relativity, these things were leaps of faiths to some extent.
It's ok to have an imagination. Mythology and made up stories of life after death and angels and demons is fun and CAN be harmless. Unfortunately, over the centuries we've allowed a lot of evil people to pervert these stories and use them against the population as a means of controlling them. God is often used as a reason to go to war, but war is ALWAYS about power, never about God. The idea of "God" is used to shame people into acting a certain way. "God" is used to create fear and get people to do what you want them to do. It's a way of justifying nearly any shitty behaviour that you might have. And I agree, it's terrible. Let's do away with it.
Still, you don't need a reason to believe. Imagination and wonder are great things.
Now, let's all hold hands and sing a chorus of this classic with The Lord Rod.
- The anti-rod********
- by the way, those "leaps of faith" in science are called hypothesesmonospaced
- Imagination and wonder are absolutely essential, but gods still are a huge stretch to believe inmonospaced
- For sure, for sure. I didn't mean to equate sci hypothesis with mythology. But, imagination is there!********
- IN ROD WE TRUST********
- The anti-rod