Why GOD is real

You say that the United States of America was built on God. I disagree. I say that our country was built upon the backs of thousands of people, who wanted a new life, and new opportunities. They labored hard for hundreds of years, became independent from their mother countries, and in time, had a revolution. America was built on opportunity, and the prospect of freedom.As far as how life began, I'd like to introduce the concept of the Big Bang. While scientists everywhere are still trying to iron out the details of this theory, it is certainly a better creation story than that of an omnipresent being. We know from basic physics that something cannot be created out of nothing. If everything started with God, than where did God come from? Was there another God, more powerful than Him? If that is so, than where did the other one come from? There are too many unanswerable questions when it comes to the Creation myth.Unfortunately I do not actually own a Bible, so I cannot read and gather 'research' from it, as you suggest. However, I do believe that the Bible is a rather biased source as far as this debate goes. It's only evidence of God is anecdotal stories written thousands of years ago. If these stories are true, than why not the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Norse, etc. gods of myth? There is just as much 'evidence' for these stories as there are for God. I can do you one better than research from the Bible. Logical thinking is all that is needed to disprove God. Take the story of Noah's Arc, for example. If a flood of such great proportions, enough to cover the entire Earth (which would include Mount Everest, a mountain over six miles tall), actually did happen, then there would surely be some evidence for that! Where are the geological, archaeological, and glacial evidence? And, if every animal on the Earth today came from a singular pair of animals aboard the (what must have been an insanely large vessel) then there would have to be a complicated genetic code to point to that.While I'm tempted to ignore the part where you basically told me I'm going to Hell, I'm going to refute that as well. Without wishing to sound arrogant, I've lived a good fifteen years. I'm kind to everyone that I meet, and I work hard every day to excel in my studies. I don't judge if someone has a different opinion than myself, because I believe everyone has the right to have their own opinion, including on the topic that we are currently debating about. I volunteer at hospitals, schools, and day cares. I always say my 'pleases' and 'thank yous.' Essentially, I've done everything that the sacred Ten Commandments tell us to do, with one exception. I do not believe in God or go to church. You're telling me, that simply because I do not believe in God, I should suffer eternal punishment? Is there no other way to save my soul? If it was truly so important for every single person to believe in Him, than why doesn't He descend from the heavens and give us some real proof? Even if God was real, I certainly would not want to worship someone so cruel. Just take a look at all the people he would have killed: "For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death." Exodus 35:2 Have to work on Sunday? Oh well, we're going to have to kill you for it. "If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father and mother, who does not heed them when they discipline him, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the gate of that place. They shall say to the elders of his town, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. So you shall purge the evil from your midst; and all Israel will hear, and be afraid." Deut 21:18-21 Pretty much every teenager. Gone. "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them." Leviticus 20:13 Oh, you're gay? Oops, sorry, we have to throw stones at you until you bleed to death. "If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbour, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death." Yeah, you cheated on your wife. Not cool, but is it really an awful enough crime to deserve the death penalty? And even if it was, why do mere mortals have to do God's dirty work? Couldn't God just kill them himself? No, because he does not exist.Source: http://godisimaginary.com...