Buit it still defeats me how obviously educated, logical, intelligent people like yourself can believe that life was created and ruled by some supernatural being, for who despite all his so called powers not one jot of evidence of his existance exists. Yet you all continue to fall to your knees and almost beg for his love. You should be stronger than that.
Oh, and I know to aethism gave us Hitler. And humans without religion seems a bit...unhuman.
Kevin! You are right when you ask the question how can educated people believe in God. I think there are different ways to believe. Common people, not very educated, just believe in him literally, for example as a man sitting on a cloud, and take every word he said as it is. But the most interesting thing is that when you start to think about it all, you open horizons and treasures of wisdom contained in the phase or even one single word. Educated people think about their faith differently, more deeply.
No ideology can substitute it, or it will only repeat it again (but will be said by an ordinary man, again a politician) like the Moral Code Of A Communist does. Imagine that! There was such a code for the Soviet people, because there was nothing, no religion, as it was destroyed, but people had to have some moral values, some spiritual values. So the Code was invented, and it contained practically the same statements or what do you call them, as the Bible in its commandments. Cause nothing better has yet been invented or given to humanity than the ideas in the Bible. They are pure wisdom, they have been tested by times, they are above social order, they have survived. If you accept the code than you believe your leader, who created it and presented it to you. But why should I believe him, or in him? He is just human, imperfect, sinful, he is definitely corrupted. Why does he create spiritual values for me? Maybe I should create spiritual values for him! And thus in a society there appear special people who take charge of your soul, but again who said they are spiritual people and are you sure they do not pursue some personal aims? I`d better believe in a perfect being, who is devoid of all these things, and believe a clergyman, who has nothing to do with the government.
Frankly, I do not think much about whether God exists or not, I do not think about who created life, because this puzzle can never be solved, but I doubt very much that we descended from apes, who started working, and turned into humans - to me this is absurd, I do not fall to my knees, as you say, but deep in my soul I do want to believe. Maybe weak people want to find comfort in God, but strong people do not seek it. Strong people think, like you do. Strong people do everything themselves, rely on themselves, but they think, which is good and doubt, which can`t be bad. Like some ancient said: I doubt and so I exist.
Humans without religion are not inhuman, but they have to have something to abide by, some principles then, some positive principles. Can they be strong enough to stand by their principles? If yes, then it`s ok. All their lives people try to come to terms with themselves. But how?
