God's Debris

I'm half agnostic and half atheist. To be honest I'm not entirely sure of the difference. Therefore I'm a bit of both to be on the safe side, so that people can't point their finger at me and say, "But you're an atheist what!?".

As far as I'm concerned, there's no basis for the existence of a god. It's just a convenient excuse for all things unknown, for all things too good to be true and contradictingly, all the bad that baffled mankind. It's god's will they say.

On the day I returned from my diving trip, I reached home and discovered that my keys were left in school. So off to the library I hopped while waiting for the sister to get home. Somehow by fate or whatever, I ended up with this rather interesting book:

Nah.. just kidding..


This is the one.. by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert.

Douglas Adams.. now Scott Adams.. both are genius to me. An excerpt:

"If you believe a truck is coming toward you, you will jump out of the way. That is belief in the reality of the truck. If you tell people you fear the truck but do nothing to get out of the way, that is not belief in the truck. Likewise, it is not belief to say God exists and then continue sinning and hoarding your wealth while innocent people die of starvation.

When belief odes not control your most important decisions, it is not belief in the underlying reality, it is belief in the usefulness of believing."

"Are you saying God doesn't exist?" I asked, trying to get to the point.

"I'm saying that people claim to believe in God, but most don't literally believe. They only act as though they believe because there are earthly benefits in doing so. They create a delusion for themselves because it makes them happy."