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Going Theist

These days I've been wondering what to do with the proposition that God exists, or, conversely, with opposite one: that God does not exist.

What I believe?

I've been playing an agnostic position, but now I doubt an agnostic position is psychologically feasible. I now tend to think it's not.

If I am honest with myself, I have to admit that the affirmation that God does not exist doesn't ring true to me. In other words: the existence of God is not so easily dismissible for me as the existence of Santa Claus.

So the assertion that God exists seems more believable to me than its opposite.

Am I a theist?

I think so.

Am I a Christian?

No.

But more than believing, I feel. I feel the wonder of being alive in this world and I connect this feeling with God. And no amount of naturalistic explanation has been able to eliminate this wonder.

These days I've reading critiques of naturalistic ideology in official science. I now doubt neo-Darwinism and anti-miracle skepticism.

I admit that my idea of God is incomplete.

God is mystery for me. If we could explain God, it wouldn't be God anymore.

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