Lets take a little break from politics and have us a real atheist conversation.
Personally, I’m open to the idea of the existence of supernatural phenomena, and I believe mainstream religions are actually complicated incomplete stories full of misinterpretations, misunderstandings, and half-truths.
Basically, I think that these stories are not as simple and straightforward as they seem to be to religious people. I feel like there is a lot more to them. Concluding that all these stories are just made up or came out of nowhere is kind of hard for me.
I first want to call out all of the responses with “philosophical insurance”.
By that I mean things like “If it IS real, it’s not supernatural, so even if I rolled my eyes at it, and you prove me wrong, I’m still right”
We’re just hanging out and casually talking about stuff here. No enforcers are going to come back and read these and hunt you down if someone ends up proving that ghosts or something is real. Also, you can still keep your Atheist card, if you think there might still be some weird stuff out there that science cannot yet explain.
As for me, I’ve had a few “Supernatural experiences” myself, and they’ve convinced me that there is another “force” out there that we don’t understand.