I have to align myself with the atheists on this one.
I see no reason to believe in any God, and therefore I don't.
It is not impossible that I might one day find God in the Torah, like you. But I can only imagine this would be due to some catastrophe in my life that damaged my reason (ie. sudden death of everybody I know, brain damage, near death experience, or what have you).
added in edit: What I am trying to say is that I feel a belief in God would only result from some sort of psychological need to believe. I think deep rooted pscyhological needs underly many people's belief in religion. For some people it might be a need to believe we are not in a meaningless world, not alone. For others it might be a need to belong to a community (because there are real psychological benefits to belonging to a small cliquey church). For others it might be the glamour of Church traditions - the candles, robes and secret customs that outsiders can't understand. But at the moment I just don't have any of those psychological needs. Perhaps I fulfil them in a different way. I get the psychological crutch of a basically existentialist view of life, and a sense of community from my friends, family, science (and who knows, maybe even internet talkboards?)
This message has been edited by mick, 04-25-2005 11:58 AM
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