I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in turn believe that God gave us its laws of gravity, of chemistry, of physics. We must also believe that God gave us our human powers of intellect and reason.
Even if there isn't a God, I believe in the one we've created.
Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.
I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.
I don't believe in God in the way I often see described by religion.
It is good to have an intellectual awareness of our dependence upon God - to understand how great He is and how very small we are in His sight.
God, who knows our most secret thoughts and who sees all, is witness to the purity of my principles. They are not founded on this barbarous ferocity that takes pleasure in shedding human blood.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
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