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Now for me to convince you, well at least try.
We have the Bible, in this book is many stories, are they true? No they are not, they are fictional. Yes there are some historic events that are recorded in the Bible, but apart from the events, was there recorded evidence of a person named "Jesus Christ" who allegedly sacrificed his life to "save the sins of humanity"? And the flood? What evidence is there that shows that a humongous flood swept through the entire Earth? The Bible claims that the earth is 6000 years old, but trees and other things discovered by scientists prove otherwise. Not even LESS to 6000, but actually MORE than 6000, 4.543 billion years old! Don't be tryin my planet with that nonsense!
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Instead, there are two philosophical principles that make such an undertaking unnecessary in order to understand how the world functions: Occam's Razor and Burden of Proof. The former claims that out of all the theories describing the known observable data, the one should be taken that features the minimal number of assumptions. The latter claims that if something has not been found, then it is reasonable to assume that it does not exist, and if we want to hypothesize that it does exist, then we must prove that it does and not the other way around.
In light of these principles, ask yourself: "Is there anything in this world that we know of that cannot be explained without introducing the concept of god?" And be honest trying to answer this question. Do not just account everything we do not understand completely or everything you personally do not understand completely to the God's influence. Try to research the things you have doubts about, look for evidence, skim through some popular science articles.
If you do this thoroughly, you will see that our models describe everything we know about the world pretty well, and they do not warrant the addition of any deities. Deities are for fiction stories, they do not seem to be a part of the actual world.
But aside from this, there is nothing we can tell you that will set your mind one way or the other. This is the kind of thing that you should arrive to by working on it on your own. If you do not believe in god, then there is no reason to change your mind. And if you do, then you can see how unfounded your belief is by just looking through real evidence and realizing that the Bible, the Quran and other writings are just fiction books, like many others, and should not be taken as anything holy or divine.
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From the start the statement “God is not real “ is correct as the definition of real is ....
..real1
So this statement is correct which proves you have proven to yourself through your own statement the veracity of your words .
The whole argument then continues in this vein as every such challenge has the believer re -defining terms to suit his /her narrative .
You don’t want to be convinced otherwise this first step would be enough to get you thinking you may be wrong and you cannot bypass it unless you re -define the term “real “ to suit your narrative as I predict you will
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Read the bible and don’t just flip through looking for unlikely things
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Since when have christians denied that the earth is 4.5 billion years old you don’t understand us
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Then what created God?
*Illuminati music plays*
Blues and Raptors handed two very toxic teams embarrassing losses, 95% of the sports world is rejoicing in the news
Repealing the Second Amendment is the first step to Totalitarianism, and it needs to be prevented to protect our freedom
http://www.atheistrepublic.com/
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Or this movie:
Then this book:
Because the first two aren't boring
Blues and Raptors handed two very toxic teams embarrassing losses, 95% of the sports world is rejoicing in the news
Repealing the Second Amendment is the first step to Totalitarianism, and it needs to be prevented to protect our freedom
http://www.atheistrepublic.com/
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But I have read the Bible twice actually as I was educated by/the Jesuit’s and come from a country that was devoutly Catholic in the past .
I bet you’ve never ever read the Bible. I also note with amusement you acknowledge one can flip through it and find unlikely things neglecting to say what they are , a talking serpent? Talking Donkey? Virgin birth? A 1,000 year old man? A zombie called Jesus? Noah’s Ark? and we could go on and on maybe you should prefer people just to flip through it otherwise they will see and appreciate what a stupid , contradictory pile of crap it is
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I like to think my mother with help from my father were both fairly intelligent
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