An Agnostic is a person who does not know if there is God or not.
No one can prove there is a God AND no one can prove there isn't a God.
Trust me, if either side could be proven it would be all over the news
worldwide!

Logically speaking we should all be agnostic.

Belief in God really all boils down to FAITH. When ALL the arguments
are layed on the table, all that is left is faith. On the other hand there
is a ton of science against. But that doesn't matter. Still no hard proof.
AND there never will be proof. No matter what science may come up with
the faithful will always fall back on FAITH. As the "Church Lady", Dana
Carvey (SNL), used to say... "How conveeeenient"!!
In spite of my blog, "Where gods came from", I am agnostic. I just lean
very heavily toward the atheistic side... Say, 99.9% vs .1%.
I have spent a lifetime researching, reading, discussing this subject.
The faithful bring up faith and the atheists bring up science and logic. 
I wish I had the answer. No one does.

Peace 

 Can God make a rock so big He can't throw it?

 This is an age-old enigma. I don't know who first posed this question.
 If He cannot throw it then he is not omnipotent. If He can throw it He
 cannot make a big enough rock and He is not omnipotent. My oh my! LOL
 Any answers out there Blog-o-field?

 Why there is no hell...

 First we need to define what "hell" is. Different people and religions
 define hell in many different ways. To some it is fire and devils and
 pitchforks. Some say it's simply our soul not being in God's presence.
 That may not sound as bad as fire, but, if your soul longs for God it
 is indeed hell. Regardless of how we define hell, all agree it is a
 terrible place or state of being. And, it is FOREVER, and that is a
 pretty long time! So we have terror and weeping and anguish eternally.
 That is some very harsh punishment. That would be extreme punishment
 even for a Hitler or a Stalin.
       I'm a father, I love my children, I created them (my wife played a
 huge part also). They are not perfect people. As a loving father there
 is no way I could ever punish a child FOREVER. What could ANY human
 being ever do to deserve eternal hell. You call that a loving father?
 A loving God? Eternal hell for how someone lived in a short lifetime!
 An involuntary lifetime at that. How could any entity be that cruel.
 Oh, I hear some of you saying, "God does not put us in hell, we do it
 to ourselves". What!  Well, God created everything. He created you, me
 and he created hell. No thanks for the "opportunity" for eternal hell!
      If there is a God, then he is a loving God, and a loving father (or
 mother). Such a being would not put their child in hell, eternally.
 
 So I do not believe in hell.

      As you may know from reading my "Where gods came from" blog, I do not
 believe in God. But, I am not an Atheist! I'll explain in my next blog
 and I'll also write about the three levels or versions of Atheism.

 Peace

P.S.
     We will never all agree on religion, but we can strive to agree on
     morals. If the strength of your belief in those morals is limited
     to your fear of judgment in this life or whatever comes after, then
     your actions are meaningless.

In light of a recent letter to the Editor about the "end is near"   I submit the following...

I was in a car-pool in Washington D.C. with a gentleman who was always
 talking about the "the end" being soon. One day he announced that he
 would not be in our car-pool any longer. He was packing up his wife and
 kids, quitting his high paying government job, and moving to Kansas to
 await "the end". That was in 1980, almost 30 years ago. I wonder where
 that guy is today - and his kids. Poor misguided fool. 

Peace

This should stir up ole Backwardsfield...

I wrote this to a cousin a couple years ago. He was upset that federal
judges ruled that a monument with the ten commandments had to be removed from a political
venue in a southern state. Separation of church and state.

Dear Earl,
   I'm probably wasting my time sending this to you, but I thought maybe
you could open your mind to other viewpoints...  Also, I find it very interesting that
the same people (Southern Christians) that are so hell-bent about the Ten commandments
monument are some of the same people that tried to deny basic human rights
(voting, education, jobs, dignity, etc...) to black Americans just a couple decades ago.

They have a name for this -- Hypocrisy...

Where gods came from:
Gods came from the human imagination.
Gods came for two reasons:

1) Mankind’s inability to explain or understand the universe and the world around them.
2) Mankind’s inability to accept mortality.

Early man could not understand stars, or the moon or the sun, or wind,
or many other simple facts of science in our universe.
His tiny mind needed an explanation, and gods fit the bill quite nicely.
Later on, these gods came in useful for powerful people to control common
people and to get the common people to do incredible tasks that they
probably would not have done otherwise - including killing and dying.
Eventually man would begin to understand his universe but the need for gods increased as
man began to understand the finality of death... And it is so final...

Psychiatrists and sociologists understand that if society desires something,
such as immortality, we can and will find ways to explain or justify anything.
Thus religions were born and miracles occurred (either more unknown science or an
exaggeration of events, over time).
Books were written (bible, Koran, etc.) and more exaggeration came about.
After all, the ENDS justify the MEANS. Finally, as science and intellect
began to develop, intelligent people began to see the light.
But they also saw the great importance that belief in gods fulfilled.
In fact, several benefits. One benefit: As crazy as the world is now,
can you imagine the chaos that would occur if we didn't have belief in
immortality through religion! Second and most important, it gives people
hope and peace. Believers can go to the grave with smiles on their faces.
Beats having to deal with the real finality. I wish there was a god.
I want to live forever. Who wouldn't! The good news is that, at the pace
we are going, in a couple hundred years (which is nothing compared to millenniums)
we will understand many more of the mysteries of biological science and we won't need
make-believe gods anymore. We will be gods in a way. We will have immortality.
I only regret that I was born a couple hundred years too soon. I guess ALL those people
will create a whole new set of problems, but we will have made giant leaps in the other
sciences also. I suppose some people will think I am possessed by the devil.
Good thing he is also made up.
I used to be quieter about my views... But, since 9/11 I feel it is necessary
to speak up because there are many people who believe in KILLING for GOD!!!
Incredible concept isn't it...
Good thing some judges are intelligent...

Watch for more insightful blogs coming soon... Next - why there is no Hell.