"Is God willing to prevent evil but not able?
Then He is no omnipotent.
Is he able but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able, and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither ablenor willing?
Then why call him God."

~Epicurus.

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365 not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers were given. Satan - 10"

"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence"

"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes"

"Man created God in his image : intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent."

"Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions"

"Our Lord has written the promise of ressurection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime." ~ Martin Luther

The greatest secular, theolgic, and scientific minds have argued the excistance of God for 10,000 years.
Since we are all so much smarter now that we have nearly unlocked the secrets of the universe, I guess we can toss out all of histories previous debates.
Does God exist?
Is there life after death?
Does THE God care which dogma you subscribe to?

The thread started with 3 choices.
I believe there should be a 4th choice.
Is one permitted to belive in God without prescribing to a particular religious doctrine?

I don't believe the debate has changed and all views have merit.
Why does 1 group feel superior to another when the best minds in history can not decide for certain.
But the first group has always and remains in the minority. Even if they feel like mental eliteists.

Hmm it seems you have thought this through very well.

Sorry if you got confused but it wasn't actually a Poll, I was just expressing my opinions.

So you think that over the past 10,000 Years, Nothing has changed even with the amount of knowledge we have gained in that period of time?

Also, Please specify what religion you are.

An expressed opinion does not need to be a criticism of anothers opinion or belief structure.

There have been many valid points raised by both sides in this thread. Some thought provoking and reasoned.

Yours as a whole have not.
Most have been nonsensical or ignorant.
From the start, with your opening paragraph, you claim to have taken an unbiased approach to the debate and shown quotes from both sides. There are thousands of quotes to choose from on both sides of the debate and you list 6 Anti God quotes, only one attributable, yet you claim they all came from the greatest scientific minds in history.
Epicuras was one of the first scientific type thinking minds and although this quote is attributed to him , He never denied the existance of Gods. He said they were not concerned with human life and would not punish us after death. He was the first to write that there was nothing after death so there was nothing to fear of it.

But for your unbiased research, the best you could come up with to support your position was a one sentence quote from Martin Luther.
If you could only come up with a Luther quote than use something more meaningfully unbiased:

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
Martin Luther

As I said earlier, This debate has gone on since Epicuras walked the earth 2400 hundred years ago and it will go on well beyond our complete understanding of the universal laws of physics.
By the way, if the Universe came from nothing, where did the laws come from that govern it?

This debate will always be argued by minds great and small, but yours is of the latter group.

My religion or lack of one is my own concern.

An expressed opinion does not need to be a criticism of anothers opinion or belief structure.

There have been many valid points raised by both sides in this thread. Some thought provoking and reasoned.

Yours as a whole have not.
Most have been nonsensical or ignorant.
From the start, with your opening paragraph, you claim to have taken an unbiased approach to the debate and shown quotes from both sides. There are thousands of quotes to choose from on both sides of the debate and you list 6 Anti God quotes, only one attributable, yet you claim they all came from the greatest scientific minds in history.
Epicuras was one of the first scientific type thinking minds and although this quote is attributed to him , He never denied the existance of Gods. He said they were not concerned with human life and would not punish us after death. He was the first to write that there was nothing after death so there was nothing to fear of it.

But for your unbiased research, the best you could come up with to support your position was a one sentence quote from Martin Luther.
If you could only come up with a Luther quote than use something more meaningfully unbiased:

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
Martin Luther

As I said earlier, This debate has gone on since Epicuras walked the earth 2400 hundred years ago and it will go on well beyond our complete understanding of the universal laws of physics.
By the way, if the Universe came from nothing, where did the laws come from that govern it?

This debate will always be argued by minds great and small, but yours is of the latter group.

My religion or lack of one is my own concern.

good man, atheism ftw.

if there wasn't religion racism would not exist.

Except for color