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What makes you do sure that, if there is a god, he's your Christian one? If you had been born in a different country or time, you might be a Buddhist, a Muslim or even a follower of Odin.
In addition, the thought of living forever - for all eternity, billions and billions of years - is my personal definition of hell.
What belief system do you follow?
Oh, I'm completely atheist.
But according to your theory, if you were born in Pakistan, you'd be a Muslim, right? So I can ask you the same question "how do you know Atheism is true"
I fail to see how this is relevant
Really? The chance that the universe was created - just for us - is zero. And if you want me to believe your extraordinary assertion that there is a god, then you will have to provide the proof. Its not up to anyone to prove that a god doesn't exist.
Douglas Adams had a relevant quote for this:
"This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise."
So now we're changing the subject from the geographical fallacy to general existence of God-
The thing is, you made a truth claim - "The chance that the universe was created - just for us - is zero." So generally, you'll need to provide some form of way to show how you've measured that. Anyway, I'll point towards the fine-tuning argument for that one. That if any property of the universe was different, it'll collapse in on itself. We know the universe had a beginning - the "big bang". There's also the Kalam cosmological argument - science shows that the universe is finite and had a finite beginning, yet infinity exists. Infinite possibilities, or something more practical like the numbers of irrational numbers such as pi or the Mandelbrot set - how can infinity exist in a finite universe? Therefore infinity does and must exist. Such things can only exist if there is an infinite reality outside of the universe, such as the mind of God.
You can't solve an infinite regress problem by just postulating an arbitrary exception that you affix special characteristics that allegedly explain why its exempt from the previously claimed rules.
I'm done with this. You wanted to know how atheists live in this world. Now you do. Bye.
If you were good at critical thinking, you wouldn't be a theist 🤷