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Originally Posted by Brown Thrasher
It appears to me the most powerful objection to a belief in God, is the fact of evil. Most likely for agnostics it is the appaling depth of human suffering, that makes the idea of a loving Creator seem so hard to understand. Thus, disposing them toward their agnosticism, atheism, or an unseemingly far fetched beliefs as life just being a scientific phenonomen.
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I'm thinking that you have that ass backwards.
Do you think that it may just be possible that a good portion of the abuses heaped upon people were at the behest of the leaders of said creator's church? I think that history bears that idea out.
Also, I've found that as a rationalist I have, over time, learned to apply rationality to most things that occur in life and have it give me comfort from being able to pick the things in my life that I have control over from those that I do not. The trick is to realize that you do
not have control over most of what goes on around you, and that no invisible force has shown itself preeminent in that position either.