>Only what can be observed, that doesn't not mean only viscerally. Because the eyes are totally not subject to optical illusions, and anticipation plays no role in what we perceive /s. >Meanwhile, flights of fantasy and mythicism such as all religious practice are deeply rooted in exactly a perversion of reality. Theoretical physics would like a word with you. Trannies want a word with you. Corona cult wants a word with you. >I make no such claims, I protest that there is no evidence to make me believe in the existence of god. You yourself are the evidence something exists, via logic we can safely conclude that none of us are responsible for our existence. If your daddy had never banged your mom you wouldn't exist. We are operating in a reality, interacting with it, that ultimate reality that we are a part of, to me, that is God, aka the Tao, Nature, whatever. God is beyond the universe as we understand it. >Atheism is the lack of belief in a deity. So you invent God as a deity, then you can strawman that concept, and feign superiority. Yes I know you keep repeating yourself. >Not believing in religion is not a religion onto itself. Yes it is, you have priests(trannies), holy books by authors like Focault, Marx, and other post modernists. In fact atheism is responsible for post modernism. Which is responsible for the perversion of existentialism. > I don't prescribe to your beliefs not because I'm a rebel, or a punk, an agitator, an instigator, a rabble-rouser, to be argumentative. I don't believe because I find no proof that this assertion is true. You don't even know what I believe, only what you assume I believe, which is wildly off the mark. Even when I tell you, I have no faith in organized religion you keep asserting I'm preaching an organized religion. But not you, even though you actually have outlined your common and organized beliefs, and there's a whole cult of atheists that believe as you do. >Your personal truth might be that a god gives you comfort and reassurance, fine. God is ultimate reality, it doesn't give me any comfort, at the end of the day, it's up to me to live my life. God provides me with the opportunity to be the best version of myself that I can be. I honestly can't ask any more from God. The proof is in the pudding, if you follow God's laws you will always succeed. If you follow the laws of gravity and aerodynamics your plane will fly. If you go against those laws your plane will never fly. If you go against your biology, you will always lose. Thus if you go against God you are a loser.