I think it is beyond my ability to think of a more moot subject than this one.
How many thousands of years have honest thinkers asked the question "Is there a God?"
The subject matter is completely subjective.The Deeds done in the name of a dogma are the deeds that have been harmful. Muslims believe Allah says blow up the infidel, NO , people say blow up the infidel.
Just like God doesn't say anything at all, but people say plenty. Like people saying my God is the correct God and you guys are sooo wrong.
If a person believes more than what his five senses tell him the individual has 1. Had an experience of some sort that convinces them on a profound level where all doubt is removed . 2. Self deluded.
Can we say one is different from the other?
Can we honestly say we have proof of anything other than what we percieve?
I've had an experience that I can't explain but I don't buy the stuff people sell at church or on TV either.
All religions offer something good , athieism offers something good , but they are polar opposites and that just means they are two sides of the same thing.
The truth of a human being lies in between the two extremes just as the truth of anything is. The extreme point is just half of something never the whole thing .
I know something wonderful but I don't know what it is, I know what it is not.