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is if you don't believe in God you won't get into heaven. Is this the attitude of a just God? Imagine you are on a jury and you have to decide if a man is innocent or guilty. The only problem is that while there are plenty of opinions on the man's guilt or innocence, there is not a single piece of evidence that stands up to objective examination. The jury is hung and your vote will decide whether the man goes free of suffers the most terrible fate. What is the just thing to do? Won't you have to say that you can't find a man guilty if there is no evidence? Isn't that how justice should work?

There is no objective evidence for God. Would a just God consign a man to hell when the man had honestly considered the question of God's existence and found no objective evidence for it? How is that just? That idea of justice does' not make sense, does it? What just God would leave no evidence?

Let's consider prayer. If God is all powerful he can answer prayers. Now you'll hear of athletes who say God helped them to win a race. Yet, every day the starving beg for help and none comes. Don't you think there is something wrong in that logic? Do you think the starving pray the wrong way or to the wrong God?

God is said to be a loving parent. Would a loving parent care how their starving child cried out for help? You know they wouldn't. So does the idea of prayer make sense? Does the idea that prayers being answered make sense? Or does it make more sense to say that the winning athlete won because they ran well and God played no part in it? Because, if God did intervene, you are going to have to ask why he cares more about a sports event than the starving millions, holocaust victims and abused children? That really doesn't make sense, does it?

The whole idea of God really doesn't make sense, does it? But believers may still think they have a trump card. Who created the world? Well let's consider this. The question assumes that a complex world must have been created. Think about that. You ever watched as the winter turns to spring and spring to summer? Millions of leafs appear, plants of all sorts shoot up.

Nature is not made, it occurs naturally. Why should it ever have been different? Why millions of years ago, or 6000 if you are a little muddled, should some being have been actively creating the natural world when it does not happen now? If no designer is needed to make the grass grow today, why was one ever needed? Can you come up with any coherent evidence

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