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Atheism

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty." Albert Einstein " I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. " Albert Einstein  The existence of God is unknowable. It is beyond human understanding and likely will always be such. If we assume an anthropomorphic God as most world religions do, even with this assumption, then the God must not be knowable. In fact God’s unknowableness is an axiom of his existence. If he became knowable then whatever purpose he had for being unknowable would cease to exist. We would not need religion once the truth were unveiled.  Even if you do not buy my premise even true believers of religion take their religion on faith knowing that the signs they rely on for their belief are in some manner spiritual and cultural in nature. As Kierkegaard indicated "contingent truths of history can never become the demonstrations of...