I usually don't like to get into it because from my experience, most people with faith usually get pissed at anyone who doesn't believe in a creator. Most are so close-minded that they don't even want to hear you out, theyjust reject your opinions.
Also lots of people that believe say that if you don't believe in god it's because of the way you were raised. I was raised as a baptist. Everyone in my family believes in god. I'm the only "black sheep". Actually only my parents know that I question the existance of a creator. It's none of the rest of my family's business. It just spawns arguements.
I'm not really an athiest, I'm more agnostic than anything else. I say that there is not enough proof to say there is a creator, but there is also not enough proof to say there isn't a creator. I lean towards tha idea that there isn't though. I believe that there is some proof both ways, but there is more proof that there isn't a creator in my view. I am a scientific minded person. Things have to be proven to me for me to accept them. There are so many fabled gods that it makes me believe that what is so different about the old and new testiment. I think it is very concieted to say that the newest religion of christianity is better and more valid than the polytheistic beliefs of the indians and of the ancient greeks. What makes christianity so special that makes it true and not the others? I do believe that the bible is a very valid part of history that gives the majority of the people in the world a reason to be moraly good. But to be moraly good only because you are afraid to go to hell is a very poor excuse. I am moraly good because I was tought good morals by my parents. I wan't my kids to have the same oportunities that I had and I want the advancement of mankind to continue. Not because I wan't to go to heaven. But I am not omnipotent so I will never know the existance of a creator until he or she or whatever it is reveals it's self to me. People that say I will go to hell for saying that are hypocrates. If your God created me with a brain to produce rational thought, I'm sure he thought there might be a time when I would question his existance. And at this point in my life, I believe that it is an irrational idea that there is a supreme creator. But that is just my belief, end everyone is entitled to their beliefs. That's why I have never said that someone that believes in God is stupid for doing so. Their god may have revieled himself to them or they must have a reason to believe in him. But I hope it's not just because they grew up believing in god. I didn't become agnostic until I was about 20 years old. Until then I had always believed in god.
