re: #424 Ian MacGregor

People are not generally converted to a belief in God via logic. They are converted by testimonials about what God has meant in people’s lives and the change that has made. God, or faith in God, has turned their lives around. There are excellent, highly moral, extremely kind atheists. Perhaps on the whole they have more of these qualities than believers. But a believer knows that with God he is a better person than he was before. He does not think of himself as sinless, he does not think of himself as better than non-believers, and he does not think of himself as more loved by God. He does however cherish his relationship with God and want to continue it. Nearly everyone who believes questions that belief. There is no logical reason for it. But for them life without God is life without purpose.

That is because they have not grasped the fact that humans can imbue their own lives with purpose. And they may indeed happily live out the rest of their days, and be excellent and superb friends and neighbors, while never realizing this fact.