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On my way out of Christianity, part of my drifting from the church was finding the answers it has about our existence unsatisfactory. It stopped making sense to me to have the good things be because of God's love and the bad things be because of sin or Satan. In fact supernatural answers were just unpredictable to the point of making me wonder, is there any order to this? Could there really be some sort of cosmic force like God or Karma?
As we find out more stuff about reality - through science - those gaps (scientific unknowns) diminish, as does such a god of the gaps/unknowns.
You are, however, absolutely wrong about “…,saying ‘only god knows,’ is as good an answer as any.” That answer is dishonest to yourself and everybody else, and stifles progress.
The correct answer is: “I don’t know.”
Please, please, please stick to that when you actually don’t know.
Incidentally, my own reason for not believing in god, after a standard Christian upbringing and an education oriented towards science, was that gods and all religious stuff seemed simply unnecessary to make sense of my experience of the world and of other people…
What do you think?