How can God not exist?

I guess it's kinda hard to imagine in very religious nations like the United States and most African countries. Where i live it makes perfect sense though

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Denmark is officially a christian nation, but hardly anyone is like a hardcore believer and most are de facto atheists/agnostics imo.
I think it is partly because everyone have free access to education from grammar school to university. So the conutry has a high AVERAGE level of education.

There's also that study by the Japanese American evolutionary psychologist that says that there is a correlation between low iq and high degree of religiousity. That might play a role as to why it's hard for an American (i assume you are American amirite?) to imagine as well, as most of the red states in the US has a relatively low average IQ.

 

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Signal,

1. It has nothing to do with the thread.
2. It will become a distraction.

I suggest you start an appropriate thread.

What? You don't have any objection to calling it ''source''?

jan.

 

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Signal,

No.
Why?

Yes.

Why asociate that with 'religion'?

Erm, define "religion".
Not ''sectarianism.

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jan

 

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I wasn't talking about religion, or any one thing for that matter.

jan.

 

God-centered religion will (almost all) disappear, and will be replaced by self-centered religion, but religion will not, nor, can not disappear. It is part of humanity.

jan.

 

Do buy yourself a reliable dictionary. You might make fewer errors that way.

Supposition.

Then why the rise in atheism?

 

My point is that there is still a long way to go from deism to saying you or someone knows the mind of God.

 

Dywyddyr,

Explain?

Maybe.

you mean the athiest religion?

jan.

 

I second Dywyddyr's recommendation concerning a dictionary.

 

Atheism isn't a religion, nor is it based on faith.

 

He's just trolling.

 

Because religion, as defined, is a belief in god.

Definitely.

There is no "atheist religion". This is another error of yours.

 

No I'm not.

6. something one believes in and follows devotedly; a point or matter of ethics or conscience: to make a religion of fighting prejudice.

jan.

 

Yeah, so what do atheists believe in then?

 

Yes, and if you actually understood English you'd realise that that particular definition is effectively a colloquialism i.e. not a literal usage.
And you're also ignoring the fact that atheism also covers non-belief: how can one "devotedly follow" a non-belief? Or believe in a non-belief?

 

Not a precise definition in the context of this discussion, that's more of a general usage term. Religion is believing in a god or gods or supernatural thing that is involved in some way in our personal lives.

 

Naturalism.

Philosophy .
a. the view of the world that takes account only of natural elements and forces, excluding the supernatural or spiritual.
b. the belief that all phenomena are covered by laws of science and that all teleological explanations are therefore without value.

jan.

 

Those would be naturalists.
No doubt a lot of atheists are also naturalists though.

 

Is naturalism a religion?

 

And after claiming it's a religion you give us a philosophical definition.
Fail again.

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