I'm an agnostic, but I'm kind of divorced from the whole debate of whether God exists or not and I am not interested in converting and convincing people to go from theist to agnostic or atheist. I'm more focused on other aspects perhaps because of my
. I don't really look at it as a simple question, does God exist? That doesn't explore enough possible avenues. One question to ask if God exists is, what is he? Is he a bearded old man in the sky?
Well, that just doesn't make any sense logically, so let's explore other avenues. Is God an alien far more advanced than us that spawned us from their own DNA? The question seems ridiculous, but if you compare ourselves to ants then we are gods compared to them in a sense because of our vastly superior size and intelligence. Surely, an alien that looks at us like ants could be a god if we looked at it from our inferior perspective.
Take that even a step further and compare a human to bacteria, if the bacteria living inside of us understood and saw what we were, they would look at one of us as some kind of supreme being or god even though there are several billions of us. Perhaps, there is an extremely advanced alien species that looks at us the same way we look at bacteria? Finally, even though you are far more advanced than ants and bacteria, can you help them individually? Maybe, but realistically it makes more sense to help them as a large group.
So to end this off, does God exist? I don't know, it depends on what you define as "God". If God exists to you as a bearded man in the sky like the bible portrays then no he does not exist, but if you are willing to see God exist in some other form that you are not accustomed to then maybe he exists and maybe he is one of many just like him. Finally, can God listen to your prayers? Ask yourself, do you listen to the prayers of bacteria or ants? Even if you could, would you listen to them and try to help them individually?
Perhaps letting a bacteria colony or an ant colony do its own thing is more beneficial than trying to help it let alone helping individual ones. Perhaps, a more important question to ask what is outside of our universe or multiverse? Are we too tiny and insignificant to even notice what exists outside of our limited view? Maybe we find out the grand truth after death or maybe we enter blackness like not existing ever. I guess my point to all of this is that when you throw religious dogma out the window and look at life, the universe and the multiverse as an unsolvable mystery of endless possibilities for our minds to ponder about then that can give you much more satisfaction then simply deciding God exists or doesn't exist and leaving it at that.
So, I think people should abandon religion if they want to free their mind spiritually, but in the same time, they don't need to abandon God once they leave religion. If they want to then that's fine, there's lots of logical reasons for doing it and I get why they do it, but if they want to keep their belief in God then that's fine too, some people need that in their every day life to get by and if they want to become an agnostic like myself then that works too.
The reason I'm an agnostic is because perhaps in my nature I must explore many possibilities even if the possibilities I have thought up of nothing more than a figment of my imagination because the possibilities that exist in this life are endless for our limited minds. I also have no interest in converting people from religious to non-religious because I honestly don't care what other people believe in because you cannot force people to change their minds when it comes to things like this since only they can change their own minds when they are ready if they are ever ready and it applies to non-religious aspects as well.