Why not believe in god? God is love. How is it that people can say he is a hateful god? An English professor made an interesting point today when talking about racism. Racists are idiots. Why? There are many people who are always looking for someone to step on. Everyone might be looking for someone to step on. It makes people feel better to have someone below them. If you are a poor, white man, you may hate black people because you consider them below you. You look at them strange in the grocery store, or lock your doors when driving through their neighborhood. If you are rich, you may be tired of the poor man always griping about not having equality. There are so many different cases. That is why we have stereotypes.

But take a look at the bible. Most Americans condemn the hate written in the Qu’ran, but what about the hate in the bible. Christians like to say theat christianity is the only religion that asks you to have a personal relationship with god. In fact, the bible says NOTHING about a personal relationship with god. Christians often call for this and quote scriptures that they interpret to mean god wants a relationship with you, but once again – NO PROOF. Muslims and Wiccans can make the same argument.

In my opinion based on biblical study, one cannot have a true personal relationship with god, because god holds the same racist beliefs as man. Today, almost one hundred percent of American society considers slavery wrong, but it is NEVER condemned by god or Jesus.

There are comments about the servants inheriting the riches of heaven. I see this as a means of control over slaves. “It’s okay that your life sucks now, because god will make it up to you in heaven.”

God also hates homosexuals…or Paul does at least.

Romans 1: 26-29

26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, 27 and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. 29 They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice.

God does not provide equality to the people he loves so much. I DO NOT believe that a person can help who they are attracted to. God is hateful toward people based on race, ethnicity, and sexual preference. How could I ever believe this?

Is it possible to ever change the mind of someone who absolutely believes in god/gods? Is it possible to cause them to question? I have come to believe that it is absolutely true. It happened to me. It was a process of getting older – coming to understand the world a little better. I began to see things a little bit clearer. I fought the loss of faith. I ran from it. After I stopped running, things became clear. My thinking has evolved to the understanding that faith is a crutch, and it is hard to let go of. Faith relies on the individual. How much is this person willing to close their mind to truth? Faith stands in the way of reality. My purpose in this blog is to examine exactly what faith is.

Definition of Faith

confidence or trust in a person or thing
belief that is not based on proof
belief in god/gods or in the doctrines or teachings of religion

I will sum it up as believing in god/gods without definite proof.

Why faith?

The end result of a debate with a religious individual will always lead an answer declaring the importance of faith. Faith is an absolute REQUIREMENT to believe in god/gods. It is because of this that I declare war on the idea of god/gods.

Why war?

I declare war because the hardest and most rewarding things in life come from the hardest fights. The war can be internal or external. In the Bible Belt, atheism is both.

Faith is Unacceptable

Your eternal faith depends on whether you worship god/gods or not. This is completely unacceptable. I have read and heard arguments for the existence of god/gods, but all of them use inductive reasoning – using effect in order to prove the cause (i.e. the universe shows a design, so there must be a designer). It is impossible to use deductive reasoning in regards to faith. If a person says, “god/gods did it,” they provide no proof.

Everyone on earth who does not suffer from a disability stopping a sense has five senses – sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. Everything on earth can be detected with at least one of these senses. Not one of these senses can detect god/gods. You cannot see, smell, taste, touch, or hear him. This is the NUMBER ONE REASON why religion requires faith. No one can sense god/gods with the senses they have. Deductive reasoning – we know through our senses. These senses cannot sense god/gods. God/gods are unknowable.

The religious world still tries to search for reasons why god/gods exist. They look at the constants that we know about the Earth. This is a fallacy. The only thing constants prove is that there are certain conditions that must exist to sustain not only human life, but all life on Earth. This is NOT a reason for god/gods. It is just the reason we are here. As Richard Carrier so eloquently put it, “If the Earth and mankind is the center of god/gods’ tension and focus, why wouldn’t the Sun revolve around the earth?” He also described how the brain is a nutrient hog, as well as an extremely sensitive organ. This organ is easily damaged permanently, yet is completely responsible for our senses, actions, reactions, and thoughts. This is not the creation of a perfect being. It is an imperfect creation. Most religions claim that the person has a soul which is eternally responsible for all actions by the body. Why does the body need a brain at all?

Faith is Essential

My conclusion is that faith is not only the most important reason for believing in god/gods, but is the only reason for a person to believe in god/gods. This makes faith incredibly dangerous. It makes religion incredibly dangerous. People believe in god/gods who let their ETERNAL FATE rest on whether they guess right or not. He provides no proof of his existence. He says you should love, worship, and obey him, but you don’t even know if he exists or not. This is what faith really is – basing your entire life on a possibility (an extremely small possibility).

People always ask what the purpose of everything is if there is no god/gods. This question is easy to answer – The betterment of myself and humanity without the fear of punishment from an invisible, all-powerful being.