All too often, man tries to use God to explain those things that he simply cannot explain for himself. The sun, the tides, the moon, lightning, storms, earthquakes, rain, solar and lunar eclipses, all were attributed to deities before men of reason discovered logical explanations for them. I know you’ve seen “magicians” on television. They make cars, elephants, even airplanes seemingly disappear into thin air, but you know those are just “magic” tricks, illusions. They aren’t really performing miracles; they’re just manipulating our perceptions.

I would implore you to keep searching for logical explanations for the mysteries of life and to never feel satisfied with the answer “God did it,” because as history illustrates, that answer is usually wrong.

My mind is not closed. I can be convinced that deities exist, but I’ll have to witness that deity for myself. I’m a skeptic; I prefer to be skeptical, because I see being gullible as the opposite stance. I’m not going to believe, because some book told me to. I believe that truth should cohere with all reality. Signs that the earth is much older than what the Book of Genesis says lead me to believe that the Book of Genesis is wrong. Rocks don’t lie; people do.

I would say your mind is closed on the subject. You’ve decided that God is real, and you cannot even entertain the possibility that he doesn’t. Churches even tell you not to doubt, that doubting will lead you to despair, that doubting is even sinful in some cases. I think that only highlights the weakness of their position. If they’re so certain that God exists, they should welcome doubt and scrutiny. Science thrives on doubt; religion views it with disdain.

Just because a majority of people believe something doesn’t mean they’re right. I will never bow to the majority just because they represent a majority. That’s what sheep do. Do you want to be a sheep? Doubt (doubt in general, not just doubt in the existence of deities) is what motivates change and progress. If people didn’t doubt the assumptions of their those who came before them, nothing would ever change. Science would never exist; people would still be conceding all matters of “creation” to religious authorities. Your religion would not even exist if people did not doubt the religions that predated it. Be your own man; don’t follow the majority blindly.

God gave us wisdom and resources to survive against any kind of odd, such as leukemia, AID, hunger etc and spiritual destruction. We live in a process where everybody encounter challenges, some big and some small, but net total challenges and ability to encounter are equal for everybody. God is justice. We can make our life easy by working together with well management of resources. For example we should not misuse sexual blessing by over doing against standard set in the Bible in order to avoid life threatening disease AID and other sexual born diseases.

Sure, God tells us not to kill, but He himself is the leading cause of death in the Bible. Sounds pretty contradictory to me.

So whom should we charge with murder when a child dies of luekemia?

Do you like to share with us, anything that you found false or contradictory to deity of Loving God? Some truth may be mystical (unexplainable) by our insufficient spiritual knowledge, but that does not challenge its validity. Many people or Church finds the Bible mixture of truth and mythology or obsolete to present context and uses the meaning in their own way. I contradict with those interpretations who tries to use Bible for worldly gain.