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Mr. Zen, your snide comments provide an amusing paradox. While an atheist may think that "logic" and "rationality" would lead anyone to dispel any belief in a God, the faithful would argue the exact opposite, many for the same reason. I ask you this though; whether or not you think it is logical to believe in an afterlife, what is your rationale for not believing in one? It certainly requires no energy or extra effort on your part to keep an open mind.
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Ah ha! I've tricked you. While I do verbate the condescension of an atheist, I am, in fact, agnostic about the existence of god. This is for the same reasons as you put forth. I'm not so far gone with myself that I can justify completely ruling out the existence of a god, logically that doesn't make sense. One cannot refute the possibility of an omni everything being because there is no way to prove a negative without giving an infinitum of examples. All it takes is for one of those examples to turn out to be false and my argument is disproved.
On the other hand, I'll not likely turn to any of the Abrahamic religions because of the simple fact that there are
way to many contradictory concepts in their respective texts. Plus, it's my opinion that no god would purport to give us freedom of thought and action, and also tell us to rely purely on
faith in doctrine rather than using rational thinking to come to a conclusion about the nature of the universe ourselve.
If god wants me to believe, why doesn't he make me believe, or better yet, show up and convince me himself? When that happens, I'll believe. But there's no way I'm just going to take somebody's word for it that "this is how it happened." Personally, I think, that that would piss god off more than anything, and no one wants to do that.
