Comments by "Digital Footballer" (@digitalfootballer9032) on "CBS Sunday Morning"
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I think we can definitely pick apart the whole "bad things exist therefore there can't be God" argument. Religion is more or less based around hardship and suffering and overcoming it through salvation in one form or another. I would argue that suffering MUST exist for God to exist, because without suffering everyone would live a life of indulgence and have no need for salvation until it was too late and they were already dead. Not to mention most religious texts do illustrate a reason for "bad stuff", whether that be sin, the devil, an angry god, retribution/punishment, etc. So you may not adhere to any particular religion that lays out these reasons (or any at all), but the reasons are stated nonetheless.
The evidence of existence argument is a much better one. And he was correct in his assessment that religion is faith based and not evidence based. You can't really argue that point. One chooses to have faith in something intangible to them, or they choose not to. And I don't see this as a criticism of religion, in fact most religions do not claim proof, but rather encourage faith. I see it more as an exercise in freewill. You choose to believe in a higher power or you don't.
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