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Hello, internal contradiction. Who created God? To this you have no answer, and thus the question of whether or not God exists is out of the realm of human reason. As I've said time and time again, you put your stock in faith. I put mine in fact.

But you just basically said to vanush that faith is natural and that he should have it, no? You're saying one thing but your attitude in this argument says something else.

You have no answers whatsoever - you're operating on blind faith and nothing more. Why do you think the vast majority of scientists and historians are athiests or agnostics? It's because their intensive study into the past and the laws of the universe more often than not makes them doubt - it...

You can't force vanush to feel something that isn't there. Once you attempt to force people to have faith, you cross the line from evangelist to dictator. And in that, my friends, is the beginnings of religious fundamentalism.

And now we've resorted to video game analogies. Even if we originated from some supreme being, it does not hold that his name was Allah and that he resides in Paradise. Your argument is flawed, much like the Paley's Watch argument - even if there was intelligent design, it does not hold that it...

Yeah, smashing counter-argument, that.

Catholicism was the first branch of Christianity to ever exist. It originated in Palestine and spread quickly through Western Europe, quickly adopted by Anglo-Saxon barbarians and Franks and Goths alike. So the question you're asking is somewhat backwards - all your practices are derived from...

I embrace history - I'm currently majoring in it. I reject blind religious encroachment on the erudite field of history. Just because Muhammad and Jesus existed doesn't mean they were a prophet or the son of God respectively.

They can, and they did. Hello? The Bible/Torah (authored BEFORE the Qur'an)? The Buddhist canons? Hindu Sanskrit texts? Yeah, exactly. And NONE OF THEM are confirmable as having been divine in origin. The reason none are written today is because their authors end up in mental institutions...

You're missing the point. The authenticity of these books cannot be confirmed, and never will be confirmable. As I said, your beliefs are based on faith, not fact. Just realise that and everything will be fine.

Indecipherable paragraph that makes zero sense? Check.

Hell yeah, bring on purgatory!

Having studied this at university level, allow me to enlighten you. Muhammad was a mediocre farmer who took to wandering through the desert disconsolately. There is no possible way that the validity of his Qur'an, or 'recitation', can be confirmed. Hell, he could've been hallucinating or going...

Incoherent wall of text lacking any argument? Check. I never rejected God, if He even exists. I simply said that if he was the retributive and contradictory God depicted in the Bible or Qur'an, I would reject Him, and with good reason.

In any case, it's not the CONFIRMED case of divine intervention I asked for. Miracles are simply a synonym for coincidence - there's not one that cannot be explained by science or the laws of the universe. A tree pointing in a certain direction proves nothing.

Any God that damns people to hell for not believing in him is no God to me. If anything, a real God would respect atheists and agnostics, for they're the only ones making full use of the mental capacities he gave to them - those very capacities which prompt them to question the world around...

I don't even have to click on that link to form a reply: Occam's Razor. The chain of logic requiring the least assumptions and conjecture is almost always the most correct one. Divine intervention involves a lot of conjecture. This is no miracle, not to me, anyway. Agnosticism, in all its...

Please cite one example of confirmed divine intervention that does not date back approximately 2000 years, to a time where "divine revelation" could mean anything to a people living in a primitive backwater.

Heh...you may very well be more agnostic than you think ;)

Errrr...you've just proved my point. I specifically said that God, if such an entity does indeed exist, is something about which humans can not possibly have any knowledge whatsoever. Agnosticism holds this as its fundamental tenet. I profess that the question of whether or not God exists is...