If you prove the existence of God, you take away the mystery of what lies beyond our own world, and that would make life pretty boring and useless. People who need proof of God, should instead try to develop their belief skills.
jimkabrhel
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Yet another terrible attempt at explaining the total lack of evidence for faith. When you go to university, you expect and know that you if you complete your assignments, you will graduate with a degree. Does that make the experience boring and useless? Yeah... I thought not. Having a tangible goal to strive for does not make something boring and useless. On the contrary, it usually fuels your desire to complete a task and do it well. You know the university exists in your tangible reality, and you know that you will receive a tangible reward for your work, and yet you don't find it boring and useless. Go figure.
The reason God must remain shrouded in mystery is that, in the sense of every organized human religion, He or they or it is imaginary. Any human religion that stated God or gods were tangible and existed on this world have long since been disproven, because no one could possibly believe the claims when we explore the reputed 'homes of the gods' and find nothing there, or discover that lightning strikes or volcanic eruptions are actually perfectly natural (and even to some degree predictable) events. Thus, the only way for a religion to survive is to claim that God is beyond our comprehension, thus rendering it impossible to disprove its existence. The problem, of course, is that the burden of proof to find tangible evidence lies on those who make the claim (i.e. theists). If I claimed I was God, people would expect me to prove it, or they would not believe me. In fact, they may even kill me for blasphemy. Why then do they wholeheartedly believe words written in centuries old books that, like me, do not offer any evidence at all for their validity, beyond some coincidences that die hard believers dig up, trying desperately to 'prove' their belief?
Developing your belief skills amounts to one thing - learning to lie to yourself, and convince yourself that you believe something without evidence, usually because you really want it to be true. It depends on the ability to misinterpret findings, focusing only on those findings which support your chosen belief, and ignoring all that contradicts it. That's it. Frankly, I don't think this is a worthy pursuit. But if you want to believe in what amounts to fiction until real evidence is discovered, far be if from me to tell you not to. Just don't look down at those who believe other fictions to be true.
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