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>>21286361

>>20819432
No problem and thanks anon. I'll keep your words in mind!

>>20252642
>While theism has an argument for a first cause (albeit one that I am very skeptical of), atheism simply doesn't has one.
If this is your main concern you're really looking for deism. I don't have any book to recommend because the deist position simply posits god as an explanation for creation. That's pretty much it. He doesn't directly intervene so we don't really know what he wants or why he created everything.

Are you happier? That's a genuine question. Is it enough for you to accept god created everything and you'll never know why, or if there's an afterlife or what ultimate good and evil is. You're just here because God pushed a button once.

>Additionally, sometimes I can't help but feel that such an incredible world as ours must be teleological in nature. I know I can never have proof of this
> My intuition also leads me to suspect that God exists
>I still don't believe I can ever know that there is a god
If God exists and is unknowable the rest of the conversation is over. Making a thread like this is just an invitation for Christians to try to make the leap between Deism and whatever bullshit denomination with a million inconsistent nonsense declarations they subscribe to.
>>20255217
>read Berkeley. Or Augustine, or Aquinas, etc. Christianity is truth
Like so. You see Christians (and other organized religions) can't seem to understand the Deist position and that it doesn't "lead to" anything they proclaim to believe. The miracles remain bogus. The religious texts still get shit wrong and make false predictions. Nothing changed when you decided Deism was the answer, other than putting a hat called God on the creation of the universe.

What atheists don't understand is that this also changes everything.

>>20238462

>>19485456
b'aww dank you fwen :)

>>19212468
You are loved, fren

>>19195206
thank you anon

>>18880747
i just ordered one. thank you for your time and effort

>>17920476
it will be okay fren