As for the suggestions by the faithful that God intends ~this~ or the Bible says ~that~ in re: demons, Satan, etc.: it’s like trying to argue with the logic of a Monty Python skit. Or the American President. No matter what your argument, there is a veritable bottomless well of interpretation, nuance and flat-out fabrication to support any spiritualistic argument. Don’t see the Holy Ghost? You aren’t looking hard enough! Think God is ~this~? Why, certainly, the book of will tell you that God is ~that~.

However, it’s all quite entertaining. Just like “The Life of Brian”.

AND damn right there aare alot of ecangelicals…y? because God doesnt care what u’ve done or who u r he loves u whether u believe it or not. U know what u guys can slate this message if u want to be all i know is that im praying for u guys no matter what u’ve been through.

I used to be an athiest and then I got to know God…now all i can say is my life is changed.

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You can register and ask questions there and you’ll get lots of responses from atheists.

If there were a God, what would you expect of Him? How would you expect Him to tell you He did?

In other words, what I’m trying to say is life is all about choices. You and I believe we arrived at the ability to choose differently. The reason lots of things happen begins with the ability to choose, all of the things that you mentioned above are exactly a result of choice. Not because there is something puppeting us through life. We aren’t controlled by anything except our own desires and choices.

As of now, no I can’t disprove the Flying Spaghetti Monster or the Pink Unicorns etc.

You are right, there are a lot of things we need evidence to prove. How do you prove a gut feeling? Is there evidence for that? What is the hypothesis to a gut feeling? Gut feelings that make us have the desire to do certain things and feel like we “know” for sure this is what we are supposed to do.

You probably shouldn’t believe in demons, because you don’t believe in God. Since you don’t believe in God, you don’t believe in the Devil. Since you don’t believe in the Devil, you can’t believe in demons because they are his angels.

Thanks for the dialogue Hemant, I truly am interested in what Atheists believe as I would like to attempt to understand why you believe what you do. I will do my best to understand as difficult of a task as it might be, so please try to be patient with me. I don’t think I’m better because I believe in God, in fact, I know I’m not.

How can you be sure demons don’t exist? How can you be sure it is mental illenss that causes people to speak in languages they never knew, using a tone of voice they shouldn’t be capable of, and having super strength you know many of them could never possess. How would you explain it?

As I’ve said before (and others have before me), we cannot go around attributing responsibility to demons or tongue-speaking to a god. Why not? That opens to door to saying anything causes everything. My house burned down because Thor threw a lightning bolt at it. I minded the gap and didn’t fall into the train tracks because my guardian angel was watching me. I passed my exam because the Flying Spaghetti Monster loves me. I won the lottery because the Invisible Pink Unicorn wanted me to…

Can you disprove any of those? I doubt it.

If we want to explain something, we need evidence to back it up. If there’s no evidence, we can propose a hypothesis. When we do that, then, let’s call angels and demons and god and Flying Spaghetti Monster and everything else what they are: Hypotheses that CANNOT be proven or disproven. And in this case, I’d side with those who say all of them are wrong, simply because I can think of 328213812 examples where I could attribute a phenomenon to something that makes no sense. And you couldn’t prove me wrong on any of them.

Now, why should I believe in demons, etc. if that’s the case?

– Hemant