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.
And no one here is asking to be converted. I don’t seek to make anyone believe anything, and I’d like the same respect - not trying to ALTER my worldview, simply understand it. I never claimed to not have a belief. I never claimed they were based on facts. I simply claimed that there are things that we cannot know, we are not equipped to know. Given that, we HAVE to take some things on faith alone, without evidence. In that regard, these are the conclusions I have personally arrived at. Anyone else will arrive at a different conclusion, because these things are inherently ambiguous, unable to be quantified, and reached through introspection. If you cannot see how simply saying “there’s no evidence” is pointless, frustrating, and outright rude, I don’t know what else to say.
Edit to add: earlier you replied to a couple paragraphs, quoting only the first sentence. Did you bother to read the rest of the post? It seems like it pretty well clears up what I mean when I say I see no reason not to. Is that all you’re stuck on? That I don’t see a reason right now to definitively believe or not believe in anything wrt God, spirituality, supernatural, etc?
I guess that was a lie.
Since I assume you can see you’re in an atheism community, I don’t know what else you expected. A warm welcome for your faith-based beliefs?
Buddy, we’re literally in a thread where someone asked what beliefs one might consider supernatural we have. I came here expecting a discussion, not someone trying to beat me with logic when it was never a competition.
First you lie about ending the discussion and now you are lying to me about my own motivations. I don’t even know what you expect to happen when lying to me about me, but it is not a good look for you. It seems you have a lot of difficulty telling the truth.