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It is true that it's a matter of belief but what's important to understand is that IT HAS TO BE SO. Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher wrote that if god was a huge strange bird, sitting in the town square, crowing away, no doubt everyone would believe in him. But that sentence isn't correct for then there wouldn't be any need for belief. It would simply be knowledge. There is a huge gap between things that we know and things we believe. Belief starts where knowledge ends and the whole power of the religious experience is in the belief in something that there is no certainty it exists.

This is why I think you can choose to believe or not but logic has nothing to do with it. If you go around looking for logical extrapolations, as did certain people in their search for proof (such as the ontological argument), you are bound to return empty handed.

Hey, thats just what I think. 

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