Spillover thead

[BoFox]

I've lost plenty of people in my lifetime, my great parents and grandparents on both sides, friends.  I never needed comfort from religion to get me through (or to confront the deaths).

As for looking at things objectively, I do.  Science can backup what it says, religion can't.  Why doesn't your god show his face, prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he actually exists?  The reason why is because he is nothing more than a figment of your fevered imagination!

See, your heated thought matters quite a bit to you, in this "meaningless" universe that holds no personal hope for you in your current incarnation.  (BTW, there are just too many things that science cannot logically back up without running into illogical inconsistencies.)  Perhaps you think that you should be handed all of the answers on a platter right away, according to your own judgments.  It's like a racist war lieutenant questioning the general's orders, because the general did not explain his own decisions as thoroughly as the racist lieutenant would have liked, as to why he shouldn't just kill every baby, child, and woman of the opposing nation. 

Anyway, what I could understand is that faith means a lot to God.  It's been heavily stressed, so perhaps that's why we're presented with the challenge of faith, so that we can actually show faith (otherwise, if we all saw God's face, and had God do everything for us by making us all rich, and we acted upon what we saw, or we still went on to rape all the women in the world - either way, faith would be completely irrelevant). 

I'm not trying to be arrogantly superior by claiming to see things that you don't, but I see that the world does work upon faith "under the skin of science" in so many ways, even during ordinary everyday living.  It's hard to see, but I've seen too much of it, sometimes on a consistent daily basis, to know that faith is a strange, mysterious thing that most atheists are just purely blind to.  Perhaps that is only a tiny microscopic speck upon the surface of the face of God that we can even hope to see in our present form and dimension?  There are bigger and higher ways, and our lives are so short anyway.