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Do you think 90% of the world all suffer from some mass form of delusional hysteria because they believe in a God?
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Yes.
1. Religions come in various forms.
2. No single religion holds a majority of people.
3. If one religion is correct, the others must be partially or fully incorrect.
4. Therefore, a majority of religious people are delusional even if one religion is correct, but all of them may be delusional.
But it's understandable. It's pretty painful to think you and everybody you know will not exist after death. So it's a coping mechanism for many. I think I'd prefer eternal torture to non-existence. I'd prefer to believe in the supernatural even if I knew for certain I was damned, but I can't believe something simply because I want to. I believe things because they seem seem to fit experiment and reason.
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Only in a universe governed by God can universal, immaterial, unchanging laws exist. Only in a universe governed by God can rational thinking be possible. We use rational thinking to prove things. Therefore
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Non Sequitur, not that I fully agreed with the premises to begin with... The concept of God is actually contrary to rationality as far as I can tell. It relies on faith, which is the opposite of rationality. Why must a supernatural being exist for rationality to exist? A more reasonable explanation is that rational thought confers an evolutionary advantage to a species that is physically weak for its size, i.e. humans. (Not that rationality is completely limited to humans.)
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ARGUMENT FROM MULTIPLICITY (V)
(1) There exists a web page Hundreds of Proofs of God’s Existence
(This site is where a few of these quotes come from)
(2) That page has hundreds of purported proofs of the existence of God.
(3) They can't all be wrong.
(4) Therefore, God exists.
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And why can't they all be wrong? A googolplex of false statements wouldn't prove anything except that some number of people spent a lot of time coming up with ridiculous gibberish.
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COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT, a.k.a. FIRST CAUSE ARGUMENT (I)
(1) If I say something must have a cause, it has a cause.
(2) I say the universe must have a cause.
(3) Therefore, the universe has a cause.
(4) Therefore, God exists
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If the universe has a cause, there is no reason to assume that God is the cause of it. If anything, God complicates the equation more than what we've observed thus far of the natural world would suggest.
Lets not leave out the possibility that mankind cannot comprehend the beginning of the universe, if such an event even occurred, in much the same way that a dog cannot comprehend calculus. Does this prove there is a God? No, it certainly does not. It's actually kind of silly to make up an anthropomorphic explanation for the universe. We're pretty infinitesimal. Of course, some higher being who made us in his image designed it all? Right... It's arrogant to assume that we are of the level of intelligence to understand all things. Something might currently or forever be out of our cognitive reach. I'm not saying this should limit inquiry, but when there is not enough evidence to make a claim, why make it? Before we understood lightning people believed in deities like Thor, Odin, and Zeus. Maybe if we ever fully understand the universe, the more abstract Gods will die too.