My reason for being atheist...

[rarigney]

5. Well said!

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I believe in god... as a creation of man, not as a creator of man. Since there has been written or spoken history of this world and the people that populate it, there have been gods. I believe that humans have a basic desire, even need, for explanations of the world around us. Many times the things we have witnessed have been unexplainable, except through the creation of a supreme being that rules all and causes the particular phenomenon we question.

Early cultures undoubtedly did not understand solar and lunar eclipses, for example. At some point, some clever person figured out a way to exploit that lack of understanding by explaining that an angry god has eaten the sun. "We must sacrifice a virgin to the sun god, then he will return the sun to us." Imagine the power of that earliest prophet.

All cultures throughout history have relied on gods to help them explain the unexplainable. The Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Native Americans, Incas, Mayas, Oriental cultures, Norsemen, and Vikings, all had their own gods. The "modern" christian god is just one of countless gods humans have created. Now we are to believe that this christian god is the one, the only way to eternal life.

There are still many things that we do not understand, but we keep searching, knowing that we will never have all the answers, but refusing to accept, "the will of god" as even one of the answers.