There is a God

There's been a lot of attention to a recent study that documents that atheists are more knowledgeable about religion than the religious.

There is a logical disconnect however.

It does make sense that the more one knows about religion, the more likely they are to reject it. Every single world religion is ridiculous on it's face. For example, Catholics insist that the cracker is really the body of Christ, and the wine is the blood. To Catholics, it's not symbolic, it's literal. It literally is the body and blood of Christ, conjured into existence by a priest.

That kind of shit is where atheists come from.

There are obviously a lot of religious folks who know a lot about their religion. We call them the crazy people. They understand all the implications of their religion, and they accept and believe them. That requires the mind completely disregard the rational and replace it with the crazy.

The logical disconnect, however, is the insistence that the rejection of religion is an acknowledgement of atheism. I reject every superstitious nonsense, but I really don't consider myself an atheist.

It's a simple proposition. We're here. We don't really understand our own nature. Heck, we could be subroutines running in some larger super computer. Who knows? Nobody.

Same thing for "God". We're here. There has to be some cause of the existence, even if that cause is a fluke rip in space/time that has no consciousness, as we know the term. Making any assumption about the nature of the cause is meaningless because, by definition, one would just be guessing about it. I know nothing about my god other than I've defined whatever process that initiated the chain of events that eventually resulted in me is the "god". Beyond that, I know absolutely nothing... except it's name; Gorak the Uncertain.

Atheist's claim that nothing caused everything doesn't make any sense to me. They make an argument with an implied level of certainty. When asked the question, "is there a God?", they answer "no". Instead, they should answer that the question is ambiguous and needs clarification. Define "God", and then I'll answer the question.

Religious people make an argument with an acknowledged level of certainty. That's just being crazy.