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Since so many of today's journalists and educators are agnostics and/or God-haters, it wouldn't be hard to follow them into agnosticism or atheism. Someone, somewhere has been leading you. But have you checked out the evidence for and against what they have been feeding you?
Maybe it was a trusted friend, maybe it was a school teacher or a University professor, maybe it was some author or even some celebrity on the tube, and they led you into or confirmed you in an attitude of unbelief. None of those social or academic qualifications guarantees that what they told you is the truth. Its easy to be wrong about God when you've experienced very little or nothing of His supernatural power. Jesus said, "Can the blind really lead the blind? Will they not both fall into the ditch?"
Did you accept what they told you without much enquiry - because it suited you to doubt the Biblical message? Did you ever investigate the evidence for yourself - for and against? If you didn’t - you can call yourself an atheist or an agnostic. But you can’t really call yourself a skeptic, because you are simply blindly following something someone told you without checking it out first.
1. I think it is perfectly reasonable to be
an atheist.
2. But doesn’t science prove that there is
no God?
3. I couldn’t be bothered to check things out.
I’ll just take my chances.
4. Yes, I really am a skeptic in the sense
mentioned above. Show me some evidence.
5. If there is a God, he must be evil.
6. We can never know anything for sure. So why believe in God?
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