Think everything we want to understand requires logic and reason, otherwise we are just pee-ing into the wind with our imagination.
Belief is how we run our life. Having faith that our bus will be at the stop,
tht we will still have a job come Monday, that the sun will rise tomorrow.
These are 'True beliefs' but do not always come true as we know.
Then there is something called 'false beliefs'
and I put some atheists and other adherents in this category.
False beliefs tend to be mixed in with true beliefs to make them more
plausible. EG. My bus will be at the stop, the sun will rise tomorrow AND
JC might come with rapture and take me under his wing for eternity.
Or I will have a job tomorrow and there is no God!
Then this is all auto reinforced, programmed and rebanked overnight which perpetuates and strengthens the belief as does every religious prayer, hymn, affirmation conversation etc. A maintenace of the trance. (the trances we live). It becomes word.
If we went for a walk in any atheists' mind, to the impression memory where
beliefs about this and that are stored, we would find that there would be a file marked 'beliefs about God. I mean, Who has not thought about a creator?
To say so would be a lie. If you have an open file with contents you have a belief set in god wether in the positive negative sense or what ever.
To say you have no belief set would be dishonest.
The file is set up in the impression memory, and not the factual files
(since no one has met God in conscious mind language I know of).
This means it is part of a believers/non believers attitude or opinion...
which is their imagination.The imagination and will trick us into thinking
we do not have a belief when we probably have many billions of trillions of bits of information stored on that very subject
Skeptics will argue some BS about we cannot prove a no belief but do they really hold that position? Why shouldnIbelieve them when I share the same biology and mindset. So that I am not so easily thrown off the trail scent of all Atheist causation.
Our mind being the false, can present whatever view it likes as word to the observer. We are not party to the internal muse that underlies this position.
We each have a dual honesty and within limits it is permitted as our falseness
which the mind must balance with sincerity in being human with all the complexities of humanity.
Few atheists would be stupid enpugh to consider that there was no causasion in the universe or cosmology The causation they internally hold, becomes the creator or God. Thus a poor discrimination (lack of knowledge) of nature would provide a poor estimation of the creator (if an atheist had one.)
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Summary about theists real reasons, any of these could be apply
1. Anti Judist, Christian or Muslim semitism taken as pa protest.
2. Have not comprehended that one cannot NOT have a view about God
if they have been discussing it.
Here atheists are logically and rationally assigned one regardless as a
collective God as default for the people who think they do not believe in
Gods.
The God of the atheist mind is the God of Absolute Materialism.
3. Some side with science as a high ground debating starting point,
while not needing to know anything much of science. Just that
the 'G' word would seem to be outside the mandate of science so can easily
be defended in layman's debates.
4 Insincerity. where one beief is held at public or at work and another
practised behind closed doors. EG a paid clergy who is really an atheist
or a paid astrophysicist who is Muslim = paid yay or nay sayers.
5. In trance where someone can hold two opposing veiws at the same time.
6. From Phobia or Previous life negative experience.
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