Everyone wants to do their own thing, but people are rarely creative enough to come up with anything original. Hence, we now have thousands upon thousands of religious flavors rooted in a handful of basic themes.
Atheists (false and otherwise) are always asking for proof of miracles. Well, here is video proof of an undeniable miracle. That means you can't deny it. So, don't deny it. It's undeniable.
Wrrrrong. Listen, I mean, he's been...he's the President...he's been elected the President of the United States now. And, as we all know, the President can do whatever he wants to do. Otherwise...look, what else would be the point of being the President? The President can do anything...
I expect large, world-changing events would/could have such an impact. However, I also suspect that a gradual slide into poorer life conditions, in general, for a populace would also result in more religiosity. When people can't afford anything else, they will revert to buying hope from those...
What sustains life, or doesn't, can be highly contextual and variable, and thus, hardly consistent or objective. It seems to be a self-negating argument, at its core. I assume the person formulating it is probably only thinking of very specific and narrow things, and hasn't fleshed it out with...
People project themselves onto their version of their religion. Religions are merely one more way for an individual to express who they already are. Hence, all religions have sinners and saints. This in itself should show that no religion provides some kind of path or teaching that is...
I expect that if/when things get bad again, religiosity will increase. Decreases in religiosity are one of the clearest signs of an overall prosperous and content populace. We now have the luxury of endlessly debating over who should be able to go to the bathroom - that type of ennui doesn't...
Any god who would be so petty as to care about what I do as an individual would hardly be a god worth worshiping. I expect a god would have far more important things to worry about than tormenting primitive insects.