No one can prove God exists

The fact that one can not prove the existance of God does not prove his nonexistance either. The fact that some people want to try everyone they have access to over the proof of the thing they believe is petty persecution. I understand how they feel oppressed by people who use their religion to make political gains by putting their opinions into God's mouth. God is for a flat tax. God doesn't like immigrants. God says America should be an English only country. God says marriage is only valid between a man and a woman. These programs by religious leaders who claim to be practicing politics with God at the center seldom find corresponding scriptures to support thier goals. But have they so tainted the concept of God or the value of reading the Bible without a cynical disdain for the idiocy of the ancient sages who wrote it? The Bible is not their book. The stories are worth looking at without trying to stick it to James Dobson or whoever is the Christian bully who seperates one from their interest in the history of religion. And allow oneself to imagine the realities that religions present.

I had taken a number of introduction to philosophy courses and it was only upon a reading that I did on my own of the trial of Socrates that I noticed the part where he declares his belief in God. The subject was usually taught as he was on trial for not believing in the gods and nothing was ever said about the lines where he talks about his personal belief in a god who would punish his persecutors and put him in a better place. It is only one person's opinion. But Socrates was probably pretty smart and did a lot of thinking before he made up his mind and he did it against the wishes of most of his fellow Athenians who were in pagan cults that he thought were stupid.

The stories that people relate about God transform the universe for those people who care about them. Sour and cynical atheists who must have proof that in the end they will have an eternity are blind and insensible.