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pretty much same post here just about santa

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I mean i believe there is a god but i dont believe in religion.

Better believe in GOD!

Define god. If we're talking common religious beliefs, absolutely not.

I believe in God, (Jesus to be exact) not going to bash on other religions as I don't think that's right.

No, while it might be helpful for children - which is a debatable position at the very least - it is disheartening to see fully grown adults believing in an Orwellian type character who is all powerful based on no evidence, or bad evidence.
Before I get the, 'It's called faith!' replies, faith is by its own definition belief without evidence.

I don't believe that a God exists simply because no evidence has been given for his existence.
Some of the theodicies posed by theologians provide a modest challenge, but ultimately they all rely on circular logic.
And even if they did prove that a creator deity exists, they still have a long way to go in proving that it is the God described by the Abrahamic religions.

For example, let's look at the 'Teleological argument', commonly called the, 'Design argument.'
This argument states that the world is too well suited for human life to exist on it without the guiding hand of a creator.
William Paley compared the Earth to a watch in his analogy which attempted to prove this, stating that humans can tell the difference between a watch and it's obvious design and a common rock.

We know now that it isn't the Earth which is well suited to us, it is us who are well suited to the Earth as an inevitable consequence of billions of years of evolution.
But, even if the design argument were true, it would say nothing about the nature of the creator.
By looking at the world, all of its horror and suffering, we could conclude that this creator is malicious, capricious, and stupid, with the occasional splodge of appreciation for beauty.
The world could have been designed by the God of the Bible, or by any of the thousands of the now forgotten God's invented throughout Human history.

All of the arguments for the existence of God are like this, they prove Deism at best, not Theism.