I'd rather always be curious and ask why. Believing something blindly because a million people follow it sounds absurd to me. Such is the concept of God.
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I'd rather always be curious and ask why. Believing something blindly because a million people follow it sounds absurd to me. Such is the concept of God.
Yes, I intentionally didn't point out any specific examples because it can be applied to pretty much any topic. We must not let us decide truth due to quantity of people. It may be worth investigating though.
I used to say I am an Atheist/Deist. I still feel that way. A Deist is not the same as a theist.
That form of creator, catalyst, simulator, god, I cannot prove or disprove. I also cannot prove or disprove atheism. They actually both have the same requirements from me. "Observe and use reason."
Deists do not believe in revealed religions, prophets, and the written texts of religions. Yet they do believe in some catalyst, creator, initial event. They don't know what it is. They just observe and use reason. Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Payne were both such people. Albert Einstein also had numerous decidedly deist quotes.
The ultimate states we cannot explain and I am skeptical we ever will...
Has their ALWAYS been something? If the answer is yes then atheism works.
Was their nothing and then this universe was created? If the answer is yes then there was some catalyst, or creator event.
With that said a deist doesn't typically believe the creation stories in religions.
However, in the "concept of god" in theistic religions I personally believe you are right and it is predominantly an appeal to popularity, appeal to tradition, and appeal to authority fallacy (don't challenge the church heretic, infidel, blasphemer).
There is a possibility of a creator, yes. Maybe, we humans and other beings were given power by the creator.
We can speculate on many things. I'm pretty good at it. The danger is when we choose to decide speculation is fact, and then we convince others of this as well. :)
Human nature. That doesn't mean there may not be something to our speculations. Yet a speculation is basically the hypothesis stage of the scientific method and there is an extreme danger in passing off a hypothesis as fact without proof.