
Originally Posted by
Rammjet
It's going to be difficult to summarise an entire philosophical outlook into an arbitrary number of points, but I'll give it a go.
1) Lack of supporting evidence. Otherwise dubbed 'faith'
2) The God character is anthropomorphic, and thus probably an expression of human imagination.
3) Logical descriptions of Gods are usually paradoxical.
4) The existance and change over time of several human Religions, which betrays the ideas of absoluteness commonly shared amongst religions and spiritualists.
5) 'God of the gaps'/ Arguments from ignorance, a significant portions of arguments for god assume god is a default position, when everyone is actually born an atheist [nobody is born believing in god], these arguments often also contort or misrepresent knowledge which implies the cause of the argument isn't true.
6) Arguments of incomprehensibility, this ties with 1 and 6.
7) I think Gods are born out of our human fear for death, this is why they're almost always guardians of the afterlife.
8) The assumption that humans are important or central to the universe, which is proponed by many religions. Ties with 1,2,3 and contradicts arguments of 6 proponents.
9) Gods die with their cultures, the roman gods died with the romans, the norse gods died with the old-norse, which demonstrates point 2.
10) The solutions to the universe's greatest puzzles have all had natural solutions so far, not a single magic divine or supernatural solution, so I'm convinced even the most ultimate questions will have natural explanations.