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Suspending your disbelief long enough to take a leap of faith is an enormous leap, one you may feel too insurmountable to take. If you ever do take that leap, ask Him to open your eyes & ears.

I have tried this. So have most of the atheists I know. I am not an atheist so much because I deny the existance of God as much as I am not capable of believing in God given the information I have. Some people are capable of beliving things they want to believe but I can't do that. Right now, I am as incapable of believing in God as I am in beliving in leprechauns. I'm not saying this to be flip. Someday, we might find out that there were a race of little people with powers we don't understand and I will believe in them, and someday, I may be given what I consider to be proof or a reason to believe in God's existence. Until then, I will be an atheist. Not necessarily because I want to be, but because I am not capable of anything else.

I have tried this. So have most of the atheists I know. I am not an atheist so much because I deny the existance of God as much as I am not capable of believing in God given the information I have. Some people are capable of beliving things they want to believe but I can't do that. Right now, I am as incapable of believing in God as I am in beliving in leprechauns. I'm not saying this to be flip. Someday, we might find out that there were a race of little people with powers we don't understand and I will believe in them, and someday, I may be given what I consider to be proof or a reason to believe in God's existence. Until then, I will be an atheist. Not necessarily because I want to be, but because I am not capable of anything else.

I think that's pretty much where my son is at.