Sagarin wrote:
Regardless of whether or not God exists, or his God is the very same God as Allah, or the Jewish God, or the Mayan Gods, or the Egyptian Gods, or the infinite light, he, no doubt, has a much firmer moral compass than yourself, and, as such, you won't find him anonymously castigating anyone on a message board.
Moreover, have you been to Africa recently on a missionary trip and helped cultivate more sanitary conditions with potable water?
Whatever you choose to believe in or don't, you will be held accountable by a higher court that transcends our human brain's ability to perceive of it. Some people call it karma; some believe it happens in the hereafter; some believe it happens as a series of reincarnations. But, you'd be a fool not to acknowledge there is a higher "power" beyoned the human being's ability to rationalize it via the scientific method.
You will learn this very personally some day, I guarantee it. Perhaps you will make the asociation when you get a bit of come-uppance and perhaps
you won't. But, life is a spiritual journey, and failures, losses, and challenges are part of the education process.
How can you "guarantee" something if it cannot be proven with empirical evidence? This seems contradictory. I agree that life can be a spiritual journey, but it is possible to have spiritual, transcenent experiences
without crediting it to any sort of higher power.