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Originally Posted by myrrh
This a very long and interesting thread. The one thing about it is that when these kinds of discussions ensue there usually is no clear definition of the concept of God. So, everyone reading this can have their own idea of this concept and it be different to everyone elses.
Therefor you can have people saying that they don't beleive in God, but that is based on a Biblical/Christian definition of God. And I have found most atheists come from this type of background. It seems that most people who denounce the concept of God come from Europe or the US, and these were the heartlands of Christianity.
So, perhaps, that speaks more about the religion of Christianity and how it defines God, rather than the existence of God in a general stance.
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For me it's the entire idea of mythical deities, period. None of my arrival at atheism had anything to do with the specific character of the Catholic God I was raised with. It was simply the concept of A god - ANY god - that made no sense to me as I got older and learned more.