You map a very complex path to understanding your god, indeed you describe yourself as an authority by dint of your own understanding and others lack of it, which suggests that others require a level that obviously they will be unable to achieve (and not for the reasons you provide). Does this...
I work in the power industry and have been electrocuted several times. We live in times where control of risk is more important than removal of risk and therefore people are expected to work with "live" electricity more and more to accommodate the consumer. What the consumer requires is what...
Why can a creator not be a bully? I think it is perfectly natural to fear that which is superior, I love my dog but I control my dog but both my dog and I exist.
Fox News has distorted the actual meaning of "no atheists in foxholes" for it's own agenda - why would it not, for that is what it does - but this atheist will pray under duress, why would he not? He has been told that it works and if someone is in fear then there is a need. Not a reason but a...
I'm not so sure...faith is not hiding, it just looks like it. Faith (or belief) in all sorts of stuff is not exclusive to theists and if they are hiding the evidence of a god - or anything else - it is only from themselves (a lack of evidence must be obvious, surely).
Accepting the god is one...
No it's not. No matter what happens there is no ambiguity about our lives. If you are born then you will die. If you impose the same idea of ambiguity to the life of a crab or a horse then the idea becomes meaningless. Created ambiguity is not real ambiguity.
On the other hand. Be careful...
Define; "waste of time".....and so it goes. Or sometimes it seems to. But we also learn stuff along the way - not necessarily about belief/lack of but about the people who believe/ don't believe. That can never be a waste of time. As for theists crossing into science, well I am happy (...
I don't fight over football matches (though they are not petty!!!). People fighting do not make a violent species. Most people do not fight. Most people do not want to fight. Most people when they do fight, hide.