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When I was a child, I never concluded that my parents did not exist because pain was part of my life.  Now, the unbeliever might say that I could verify their existence through the lens of the five senses whereas with God I cannot.  This leads me to ask which came first, the denial of God’s existence after a painful experience or a “simple” deduction of empirical evidence before?  I ask this because it is largely unnoticed that we are always met with the emotional content of a conversation long before any formal logic is ever applied, as if to say this could precede any emotional basis from without.  For instance, nobody travels to their local Barnes & Noble, finds one book advocating theism, another in support of atheism, reads through the argumentation of each and reaches a conclusion independent of any experience that muddies the waters through which a conclusion is apprehended. Read the rest of this entry »