I can’t wait to see it.

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Theology is but the ignorance of natural causes reduced to a system. - Baron Paul Henri T. D’Holbach

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Coincidentally, in my online Philosophy class, we’re on the chapter called “The Problem of Evil and the Existence of God.”

Last week’s discussion board question:

If you believe in God, what evidence would convince you to NOT believe in God?  What does your answer say about your belief in God?

If you do NOT believe in God, what evidence would it take to convince you that God exists?

If you are an agnostic, what evidence would convince you 1) to believe in God and 2) to not believe in God?

It actually took me a while to come up with an answer because I first had to define and label myself to fit into one of these categories.

I don’t think about religion very often and I’m not spiritual at all.  I think of myself as a Humanist.

But, I guess I would also consider myself an agnostic atheist.  I say this because although I do not believe God exists, I know that one cannot “prove a negative” and I also accept and hold myself open that there is still a possibility that a god exists (or multiple ones do).

Bill Maher was on The Daily Show last night.

…I’m not an atheist because I find atheism to be a mirror of the certainty of religion and I don’t like certainty of the next world we can’t know… what I say is “I don’t know.”

I guess I shrug my shoulders and say, “I don’t think so, but I can’t say for sure, either.”

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Whether or not the God(s) that may exist is the God(s) (humans) created for ourselves is a different issue: If I believed that a God(s) existed, I believe it would not be a personal God(s).