Do You Believe In God?

I believe that I'm not sure.

There should be a third option, that of undecided.

I suppose I'd be leaning heavily towards the position of disbelief, definitely almost touching outright disbelief in the concept of an oul lad with a white beard sitting on a cloud. But I wouldn't rule it out entirely, stupid as seems.

It's arrogant to assume that your beliefs in a God are a ticket out of having to explain how the universe works, but it's also arrogant to assume that you can say definitely that you - a human being - know for a fact that there defintely isn't a God.

As a kid I believed, then as I grew older I identified as an atheist, to the point where I'd have arguments with "believers". At the time I thought they were stupid. Looking back some of them were, but not all of them. But I was defintely always overbearing and pumped full of my own sense of self importance. Belief is a crutch for some people, but not everyone and to think that of everyone shows you to be as weak and unquestioning in your thinking as those you despise.

I think agnosticism is a logical position. When it comes down to it, for all our pretensions we know absolutely nothing about the universe and our place in it. So how I can hope to come to a final answer on the question of God? Maybe it isn't even inconceivable that the vastness out there may have some source of self-awareness, would that qualify? After all the atoms have come together in this corner of space to evolve to a point where beings such as us exist, who can look up at the stars and wonder where and why we came from. That's pretty magical without even bringing a supreme being into it. Or is all just a universe of cold mathematics and physics? Who knows.

I wouldn't ram religion down peoples throats. I wouldn't have much faith in it. But until we see everything there is to see, go everywhere worth going too, and know all about it all, and whether it's all in fact even worth knowing about, then our final judgements are strictly provisional.