 I don't think that there is a God
It seems overwhelmingly unlikely that the God described in the Bible exists. I can't see any compelling reason to believe that anything remotely similar exists either.
Humans are good at seeing patterns and meaning where none exists. The other day I heard about a religion for the first time. It struck a bit of a chord with me, and a few days later I noticed something that would otherwise have passed me by that seemed strangely significant in the light of my new knowledge.
The trouble is, the religion was a spoof one: the Great Spaghetti Monster. And the thing that I noticed was a surprisingly large amount of spaghetti on my kitchen floor when I was sweeping up.
The point is, if the original premise of the religion had not been intentionally ridiculous then I might have found this apparent coincidence a divine message.
God isn't dead - he was never alive in the first place.
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