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  • TimB replied to the topic Evolution of Religion in the forum Religion and Secularism 5 years, 3 months ago

    If I were to accept the existence of an agent (entity?) that existed prior to time itself and beyond the natural laws that regulate all physical matter in the universe, how could I ever know the mystery of where the f— that entity came from, or how it came to be outside of the scope of natural laws?

    How could I tolerate not knowing?

    Now if I remain an atheist and acknowledge that there are still things that I don’t know, and accept that while science continues to seek answers, I will tolerate not knowing.

    But if I couldn’t tolerate not knowing and decided to make stuff up and call it truth, in order to fill in the blanks, I would have the ultimate answer: God did it.  Yet where did God come from?  Now I need a meta-religion, I guess, to make up something to explain that.  (Most likely it would be something like “God always existed. Accept it and move on).”  No need for further truth seeking.