You are free to promote your belief in god. However, your belief is absent support.If your religion doesn't make sense to us, just like Islam or Mormonism or the Greek Gods don't to you, isn't it moral to speak the truth? If we think religion is a lie that holds people back, shouldn't we speak up? Look at how ISIS uses god. Its not a healthy concept. "They" use it to brainwash/control you.
If one accepts the prevailing scientific understanding of the development of the universe, yet also believes in one of the major religions, then presumably a god sat idle for 13.7 billion years – waiting as the stars, galaxies and planets formed. Then it watched with complete and utter indifference as modern Homo Sapians evolved, struggled and died for 150,000 years. Finally, a few thousand years ago, this god suddenly decided to reveal itself to a hand ful of people in the most primitive, illiterate and remote portions of humanity in a completely unverifiable way – and then simply disappeared.
You can say anything you like. I'm not on a message board because I expect people to shut up. But just because your particular belief as to the nature of God doesn't make any sense to you is not evidence regarding the existence of God. It just means your belief doesn't make sense.
You lead your argument by deferring to "God ", a reference to a unique and partisan supernatural entity. It's just a fact that there has never been any objective evidence for any of the human inventions of gawds, past or present. And with a historical perspective, we can identify your God as merely an invention of a supernatural entity that is an accumulation of hand-me-down attributes of earlier gawds, all rolled up into a three stop shopping gawds of convenience.
It's therefore a rational and legitimate conclusion that the supernatural entities that have been distilled into the God you refer to is merely your partisan belief.
Of course my belief is absent support. Have you paid no attention to anything I have ever written? Absolutely zero support. I fully acknowledge that. What you don't accept is that your belief also has zero support. The only rational and scientific position one can take in the absolute absence of evidence is neutrality, and you are most definitely not neutral. So claiming your position is rational and scientific shows a total lack of understanding of what those words mean.
We learn about all the similarities between Christianity and the Greek Gods and we realize if the Greek Gods were made up, so too might Christianity.
Then we hear Jesus fed 5000 people with 5 loaves of bread and 3 fish and we just can't get past it. Anyone who accepts this is moving forward with gullible eyes.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And you're telling us you have none?
Claims require evidence. The whole "extraordinary" adjective is pointless. But yes, I have none. So?
My friend can lift 100 pounds with both hands. I can show you a video of it. Those could be fake weights but you have no reason to doubt it. Or maybe you can read 10 people who all tell the story about how they all saw it. Do you doubt it? Of course you don't. No reason to doubt it.
Ok, now, I just saw a baby lift 1000 pounds with 1 hand. Can you believe it? Will you believe a video if I show you or will you believe 10 people who all say they were there and saw him do it?
Why do you need more evidence for the baby?