Under the logic that religious people always use again and again, "It can't be disproved," well then what if I ran up to you and suddenly told you that I had contact with the flying spaghetti monster and he told me the truths of the universe, that he was the almighty creator and I was specifically told because I was the chosen one. I have been granted the power of meatballs and have been asked by him, the monster himself, to rain meatballs upon all who oppose his rule. You can't disprove that. Even if you say "Well why don't you blast me with meatballs then, huh?" Then under your logic the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, so you still can't prove that I don't have meatball powers, just because you don't see my powers doesn't mean I don't have them, it just means I don't wanna show them, just like just because you can't see God, that doesn't mean he doesn't exist.
The thing about belief, is well, it could be a completely misleading or ignorance. I mean I bet you've been decieved or lied to in your life before and before you found out, whatever the lie was you believed in, so to you it wasn't a lie, it was the truth. You see the flaw with that? Let's say your mom promised you a CAKE on your Bday in 2 days. All throughout the school day you thought about the cake. You even dreamed of the cake when you slept at night. You never once thought it was a lie. All you can think of is the REAL CAKE that will come soon. But then she doesn't make you cake. D:
Alright hardcore religious people. Explain to me the Mayans who sacrificed 1000s of themselves constantly for their god. Explain the trend of Catholic Priests who, well you know. Explain why if money is the root of all evil, then why have churches asked people for money in turn for salvation. I see ridiculous ads like THE MIRACLE COOKIE, no lie, that you order and when you eat it you contact God and other life-saving things you can buy from the Church. Look at the Christians in Egypt who are persecuted because other people don't agree with their religion and wish to kill them. Religion causes violence as you can see because of disagreement. Look at the Jews that are persecuted by Muslims and vice versa. Look at the dozens of people who die praying in mosques due to terrorist attacks, ironically by fiercely religious terrorists who kill their own believers. Look at the Why are there so many religions? How can you tell which is true? It's basically your community and family/parents/guardians. Whatever they teach you and mostly are, will be your religion.
Honestly though, no disrespect, I do respect religious people, I have many friends who are religious, and some of them are good people. I mean, who wouldn't want the 100% belief that there is a rewarding afterlife for your deeds, that those commit evil, immoral crimes are fairly punished, y'know like karma, but obviously life is very unfair and random, and so I just can't believe in something that has no evidence.
However, my logic also backfires. Religion is only taught and has no evidence. But you can argue that we're taught history and it could all be a conspiracy theory, people implanted the info in our textbooks and media and mislead us. Kinda like the matrex sorta stuff. It's not that farfetched, during the Nazi regime, proproganda caused 100s of women to love Hitler and tons of children were taught Nazi ideas and believed in them completely even if they were all lies. Same with Stalin, many people thought he was a God the way schools potrayed him as. You only know what you're taught or you figure out yourself, and humans lie on a regular basis and millions of them do every day, so many things you learn could be a lie, as long as you don't find out. Things in history you can't really figure out since you can't go back in time obviously, so you only know what other people tell you, your veteran grampa, your history textbooks and teachers etc. But what if they were all robots, or payed to act?! Deception. I mean atheists argue that Christians just believe in some book that primitive people wrote thousands of years ago, but in the same way, Atheists just believe in some book too.
Interesting fact: Our brains actually believe all the info we absorb first, however in a few milliseconds or something like that, only after that do the signals show thinking and rejecting that belief, but at first it's the truth, it takes our brain an instant to go like 'hey, wait a minute, that's not true', takes it time to process the info.
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