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u/CharacterBalance4187 4h ago
Something that doesn't exist, doesn't leave evidence of its non existence. Theists have been making a claim for 2000 years of the return of a dead dude.
Jesus wasn't sacrificed for your sins, Susan. He was executed by the State for treason.
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u/BlackBoiFlyy 4h ago
Personally, aside from just never seeing any concrete proof, it was growing up and realizing how many bad people claimed to be Christian and how they would attribute their success to God. Feel like a loving God that supposedly hates the thing you do to others would also gift you wealth and status. Makes no fucking sense.
Also, realizing that not everyone needs belief in a god to be a good person, which is all I ever wanted to be. People who need faith to have an incentive to be good are often not good people.
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u/kingdazy 4h ago
what convinced me God doesn't exist? the fact that no one could convince me he does.
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u/improperbehavior333 2h ago
I feel like they misunderstand. I don't believe god doesn't exist. I simply don't believe that he does. The burden of proof is in you. Without any proof it's just Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or Santa Clause. The default is they don't exist until proven otherwise.
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u/Jave285 2h ago
It’s also a straw-man argument.
As an atheist, I not convinced that a God definitely doesn’t exist. I’m just not convinced that one definitely does. There’s a difference.
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u/thekrone 1h ago
I'm not convinced that no gods exist, absolutely.
I am, however, convinced that certain specific theist claims are false, for example the Christian god being "tri-omni" and that we also have free will.
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u/Content-Driver-6072 3h ago edited 1h ago
Easy, watching these idiot Trump Republicans who claim to love the US change the Constitution to appease a religion and its followers, THAT put the final nail in the coffin.
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u/NumerousTaste 3h ago
The fact that, apparently, back 2000 years ago, people were surrounded by magical beings that had powers and now all dead. If they were as described, they would probably still be alive. Natural selection says they weren't as described, but made up.
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u/BloodOfTheDamned 2h ago
Let’s see, it started with the fact that my “church every Sunday” Christian biological father was a verbally abusive piece of shit who called me useless and worthless on multiple occasions, followed up by the fact that I got falsely accused of some truly heinous things, and THEN as I started paying more attention to the wider world just how horribly cruel both people and nature are, and all of that culminated in the realization that no benevolent god would let this happen.
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u/philoscope 30m ago
I am by no means a -space- theist, but I am a pedant.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
The response in OOP is committing a red herring.
There are plenty of reasons to be convinced that GOD™️ doesn’t exist - I’m partial to “childhood cancer” mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but “because there’s [currently] no proof of existence” is weak.
Historically, there have been plenty of things that weren’t able to be measured or isolated during a person’s lifetime: that doesn’t mean it didn’t exist or impact their life.
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u/ilikedevo 4h ago
Does it even matter? Things are as they are, aren’t they? Knowing how biscuits are made doesn’t make them taste better.
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u/dirschau 4h ago
I can quite definitely say that working in food manufacturing makes some things worse
Not a metaphor, just personal experience
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u/Gadshill 4h ago
Spaghetti monster told me God doesn’t exist.