Religion: why the atheist view “there is no god” view could be bad

Religion is a touchy subject and people that believe in god tend to be very restricted in how they talk about a universe without god.

I have asked a number of believers what if there is not a god and the reply I get is there is a god. Having an argument about how they could be wrong can be sometimes even violent.

We are forgetting another strong view, the atheist view. They believe to not believe a deity i.e. a god or powerful being. I used to class myself as an atheist but I feel denying lots of written word older than a lot of history books, can make me narrow-minded.

Having seen lots of atheists and them argue that they could not be a god because we would have detected it or it cannot exist because it cannot be sensed and coming out with lots of science views.

I asked the same question I asked the god believer but the other way around. What if there is a god? He replied there is not a god because it is impossible for there to be a god that could create something as complex as the universe. My reply was “you are only thinking of what we can relate to”. He did not understand what I said so I explained that although what god is meant to have done is impossible for anything on this world to do does not mean it is impossible for something outside of this world. He said something like so god is an alien. He is still very much thinking only in this world and what can be proven by us. Where I was thinking of outside of the universe he found it very hard to think the wide. Now who is narrow minded?

This does not answer the question if there is a god and if there is not a god, nor is it meant to. What this is meant to mean is that although you believe so hard in something it could be wrong. The key word is “could”. If there is any chance any little chance it could be wrong then you should not completely rule it out. The whole god or no god argument is very hard to say there is or there is not. You could say there is not a god because we can not prove there is. You could say there is a god because we can not prove there is not. We could go on and on. The main point of this is that a believer in god believes that if they honour and worship their god. Good will happen and if they do not then bad will happen. Think about the worse case. Say there is a god and you have ruled him completely out, that is worse than saying there could be a god. If there is a god and god is all forgiving then all this is meaningless. Let’s say god is as strict as some believers believe then, if you are completely atheist and die and go to god. God may view it as worse than if you believed there could be although could not fully believe it with out proof.

Saying something could be true when it cannot be proven not to be, is better than saying it is not true.