chicowalker
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Actually, it's simple and a blessing to follow God... to love Him... to appreciate the beautiful world He gave us... to follow His commandments... and to accept His son as Lord. Well, it's easy when one hasn't already appointed one's self the Most High. That's why it doesn't pass your smell test... you think your nose is the Ultimate Arbiter... which is ironic, since He designed your nose and gave it to you. LOL
But why take man's word that it isn't man's word -- that's what I'm getting at.
It's easy to appreciate the world without any religion and without any notion of god, though, just so you know.
For some reason you always fall back on this notion that the only reason a person doesn't accept other people's concept of god as pride, ego, etc. ("... already appointed one's self the Most High... the Ultimate Arbiter...")
In reality, it's just not accepting what other men have written or said about some supernatural being as fact.
Do you believe in, say, Big Foot? Is the reason you don't believe that you have appointed yourself the "Most High"? of course not.
btw, I don't at all doubt that it's simple to follow god -- any god. it's probably quite comforting, too. Questions that an atheist such as myself considers to be complex and intriguing suddenly have simple answers.
edit: Big Foot as a comparison could seem flippant, even offensive. if so, substitute the Egyptian gods, or Roman and Greek gods from mythology. I'm assuming that you, like I, don't believe in any of them as supernatural entities. And the reason we don't believe them isn't that we are too proud, or that we worship ourselves. I can't speak for you, but for me there's no reason to accept what those other men --their followers -- have written or believed as fact.