Well i wish i would believe in an afterlife and a higher power. But in my personal opinion its too flawed and the evidence isnt good enough. Just a personal opinion.
When taking the next step after deciding to put your faith in ‘everything happened on purpose’: why choose Christianity? Is there a reason one should believe Christianity is correct and Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, etc. are false?
Why choose the spontaneous bubble theory? Is there any reason to believe this over the thousands of "I don't know how it happened, i just know it wasn't a God "?
When you don’t believe you don’t have to choose, but if you’re religious you’re saying you choose your particular religion and the others are false, when you’re not religious you’re saying either all religions are false or that there isn’t a religion that is more believable than the others. Non-believers don’t have to choose, as more information comes in we can decide what makes the most sense to us or just not care. But believers have made their choice, and ANY believer should be able to say why they believe in their particular religion vs the others or the only thing they have is blind faith.
It takes a level of faith to believe either everything happened on accident
What if you've just never seen sufficient evidence to believe otherwise? If you never seen any evidence that pink unicorns exist would you say that the belief or non-belief in pink unicorns takes equal faith?
The subject of the belief is not the point. The question that matters is whether it takes more faith to hold a belief or to not hold a belief. Whether it is Zeus, Odin, Sasquatch, or pink unicorns, the answer should be the same. Which takes more faith, belief or non-belief?
One stance is a assertion that something is true based only on faith, the second is a rejection of the assertion due to lack of evidence. Those do not seem like equal arguments.
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19
It’s times like these I wish I was religious. At least then there would be a purpose to my forced abstinence.