[Serious]Why are you not a believer of the existence of God

[MassSpec]

To Lord Orwell (at this point quoting gets ridiculous)

In your last response, a breakdown of my responses, you used a fundamentalist argument (not necessarily saying that you are). That its...,
since each religion assumes as fact that their beliefs are true and correct, anyone who does not adopt their religion or tries to discredit any part of their dogma is wrong. It doesn't matter if you arrived at such conclusion via careful, impartial and reasonable thought. You are factually wrong, and some might say morally corrupt.

Under such circumstances, I could start a religion of my own. I'll make "Spongebob Squarepants" my god almighty and stipulate that any form of human thought that concludes that Spongebob is not THE GOD, is wrong.

See what I mean? Religions are by definition, self-contained and self-justifying. It they were'nt, they would collapse in short time. This is because they have so little evidence to go on, even if they have it right.

This is why discussing the merits of any religion has to occur from the outside. Not within the confines of any belief. Which is why I can't care about whether or not religion thinks I'm wrong or immoral. If I did care, my conclusions would be prejudiced and partial.

I know religious people with whom I can have a good healthy discussion about this subject. But if I come across one who just cant step out of the box, and starts throwing arguments based on what "the bible says" or some personal religious experience, like feeling god or whatever, I'm out the door. I wouldn't even bother. They are just too entrenched to see things from outside the box.

Regarding the culprit who ruined the keyboard..... I used the story to draw up an analogy as to why it is difficult to chose the right course of action. Whether it's punishing the keyboard bandit, or choosing the "right" religion. Your approach to parenting is analogous to the agnostic one..... no conclusive evidence, so they are all guilty.