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Subject I'm an Atheist. Why should I believe in a god? Which god? and why?

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nothing doesnt exist, therefore everything exists. enjoy the paradox
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No. That is illogical. Yes, nothing cannot exist by definition.

Everything cannot exist. Everything is the summation of all things. Everything is an idea. Not all ideas exist.

For examine I may think up a species I call a jabberwocky thought up by Lewis Carroll.
http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
  The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
  Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
  And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
  The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
  And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
  The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
  He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
  Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
  He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

However a great poem or idea, the Jabberwock doesn't exists.

If one defines everything as the Universe, then that exists by defintion. Everything however is an noun which is poorly defined. We can sweep our hand at our possession and say, "Look at everything...." and yet that is not everything logically.

Not everything exists.
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Original Message I'm an Atheist. Why should I believe in a god? Which god? and why?

I'm considering god, but need a rational reason to actually believe. I would never take blind faith, as you could end up in any religion just dependant on the influence around you.

Anyway, I'm searching, but need a rational way to decide.

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