Lennyx

Your argument for atheism is this: "There was a time where the church ruled and everybody believed in God, these were called the Dark Ages." Okay, people believed in magic and witches, and technology was hardly advanced, right? Well just as technology has advanced, so has religion, and the relative belief in God. Remember when the Earth was flat? That was quite the discovery. Remember when African American people weren't allowed into the LDS church? Remember when the effects of cigarette smoking were actually a punishment given to you by God? The idea of a higher power is not primitive. Certain beliefs and ideas are, and they evolve as the Earth does. There is nothing valid about using the religious beliefs of hundreds of years ago to try and prove a point. We, as humans, grow and become more intelligent as the years go by. We leave beliefs behind and conjure new discoveries. I am not a religious person, but in my life spirituality is a key. I keep in tune with the universe, which is my higher power. I'm a strong believer in personal power and realization. I believe in living in peace and acceptance with the rest of the world. I really have nothing against atheism, I'd just like to hear a better reasoning. I've also heard the case of "Kids are starving in Africa and people are dying of cancer, where's God?" That's an even worse argument. Miracles happen everyday and so do tragedies. Part of living on Earth is that there is good and bad. If everything were perfect that would completely destroy the point of being here.