Sometimes I think I would prefer to be a meta-smug type, as that to me seems to be what most atheists do in reverse. (I hadn't seen that site, it is pretty awesome.)
Considering I am just back from church, I thought I would chip in.
Everyone has doubts about God's existence at some point. The difference is that you have *faith*. I doubt I could convince you, or anyone of His presence. Personally, my reaction to looking up at the night sky is to see the Face, and Handiwork, of God. Sure, I know it is an emotional reaction, but that is the difference between myself and my mother. She isn't a church goer, nor brought me up to go either. I chose. And that is the choice we make. Your reaction seems to me the same as hers. You emotionally don't think there is one, whereas I do. I think most atheists love to show their smug learning and arguments, but alas you can't argue with someone who has faith, or believes, as well, they believe, and you don't. No amount of reading and debate on either side will, more than likely, convert/convince the other. Both sides have the choice. And long may that remain so.
Of course, I am also an unrepetant heretic.
I grew up in an overtly fire-and-brimestone area in an overtly fire-and-brimestone country. (You know all those religious nuts in the US? They came from my part of the world. We didn't get rid of enough of them, it seems.)
These tracts are great:
http://www.chick.com/default.asp
Armageddon! Armageddon! Arm a geddon out of here (etc)
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Considering I am just back from church, I thought I would chip in.
Everyone has doubts about God's existence at some point. The difference is that you have *faith*. I doubt I could convince you, or anyone of His presence. Personally, my reaction to looking up at the night sky is to see the Face, and Handiwork, of God. Sure, I know it is an emotional reaction, but that is the difference between myself and my mother. She isn't a church goer, nor brought me up to go either. I chose. And that is the choice we make. Your reaction seems to me the same as hers. You emotionally don't think there is one, whereas I do. I think most atheists love to show their smug learning and arguments, but alas you can't argue with someone who has faith, or believes, as well, they believe, and you don't. No amount of reading and debate on either side will, more than likely, convert/convince the other. Both sides have the choice. And long may that remain so.
Of course, I am also an unrepetant heretic.
I grew up in an overtly fire-and-brimestone area in an overtly fire-and-brimestone country. (You know all those religious nuts in the US? They came from my part of the world. We didn't get rid of enough of them, it seems.)
These tracts are great:
http://www.chick.com/default.asp
Armageddon! Armageddon! Arm a geddon out of here (etc)
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp