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  • Not the one you replied to, but…

    I was agnostic for quite a while. I viewed it with an air of “scientific smugness”, thinking “since there’s no way to prove one way or the other, of course agnosticism is the only rational view.”

    What finally pushed me to full atheism was 2 thoughts:

    • Whether there is a god or not, the universe operates as if there isn’t. By that I mean, we’ve chipped away at the “god of the gaps” and found scientific explanations for every natural phenomenon that was previously attributed to god.
    • If there is a god, and they are omnipotent, then surely they would understand why I don’t believe and would not punish me for that view. If they’re truly omnipotent and want me to believe, they know exactly what kind of evidence would be necessary to change my mind. Since that hasn’t happened, either there is no god, or there is and they’re ok with punishing me for something they could resolve immediately, in which case fuck them.