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A few years ago I actually thought that there was substantial evidence against God’s existence. Not affirming evidence, but convincing nevertheless. But with Atheist slogans like “There’s probably no God”, along with the mountains of evidence to the contrary, I now find myself looking unto Atheism with utter bemusement.

Just recently, London buses have been plastered with “reassuring” statements, questioning the existence of God. A similar effort has been started in Australia, but has so far been rejected by major advertising businesses.

Now I’m hoping that people will pick up on the terminology used in these messages. Atheists can’t actually creditably claim that there is no God because they simply don’t know. There is absolutely not a scrap of evidence that confirms this view. With Christianity on the other hand, you have mountains of credible, historical and scientific evidence that affirms the existence of God. It simply comes down to whether you choose to believe it or not.

There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.

So basically what they’re saying here is that: God may or may not exist, but choose the possibility of hell over heaven. Am I the only one that can’t understand the logic here? If there is so much as a one in a billion chance that God exists. Wouldn’t the most logical and reasonable conclusion be to not ignore him?

One of the most interesting and useful things I learnt about in Maths was the Asymptote. If you think about it this way; your life on Earth will become infinitely short as time increases (Atheists believe in infinite time right?). So therefore, time on Earth is infinitely insignificant. We can then conclude that no matter how unlikely God’s existence is, it would be completely illogical to ignore it in the realm of infinity.

The initiator behind this advertising (Ariane Sherine) said the thing that motivated her to organise the campaign was a Christian message saying that “all non-Christians were going to burn in hell”. Well yes and no… Yes, that is a Christian message. No, because it’s not true anyway right?

I get what they’re saying; the message is scaring those who don’t know if Christianity is true or not. But for the strict Atheists, you can’t mix and match philosophies. If you believe in Christianity then this message doesn’t apply to you. If you’re an Atheist then it’s not true anyway!

The intention was to demonstrate to the public that there is an alternative to religion that is rational, reasonable and worthy of thought.

Worthy of thought, yes. Rational and reasonable, no. I find it amazing that Atheists claim to base their lives around science and facts, when the very definition of Atheism is based on uncertainty… (it is impossible to prove non-existence without infinite knowledge).