Originally Posted by CCIP

[originally intended as response to the question of "Reasonable atheism - disprove that god exists"]

Wonderful trick.

I may not be an atheist per se (well, I am from the perspective of the Real Christians on the forum), but I don't see how it works. To me it's like asking about the existence of vacuum. It only can be proven or disproven in relation to other things.

I would say God certainly doesn't exist in the sense that he is proposed in Judaeo-Christian dogma. If he does, then he clearly suffers from a severe case of paranoid schizophrenia, as he can't even stop contradicting himself in his own (many versions of) scriptures, nor decide who his real voice was and who was a hoax. Not only that, but he evidently has a very poor working ethic in enforcing his own laws, and a very poor sense of judgment in whom he chooses as his Chosen Ones.

Reasonably, I'd rather there be no God than a clinically insane one. Fortunately, for me, asking the question of "does God exist?" is asking "does water exist?" Sure water exists. And it's not prone to effects of mental illness, having no mentality or sentience as such. That's all for me, really.