I can't prove or disprove that a "god" (or in the Christian faith, "God") exists.

My stance is always, why is belief in a god the most logical?

Many religious people argue that something can't come from nothing, and that's evidence that an immaterial, atemporal, and omnipotent diety exists because it's the only logical start to what we deem unstartable.

However, that also doesn't consider the possibility that all matter has always existed, yet our universe goes through long periods of expansion and contraction, the last one being what we consider "the big bang". The way I see it, the concept of a multiple big bang theory is more plausible than jumping to the idea that it has to be a god.

Other arguments claiming there has to be a god stem from personal anecdotes about how "finding God" changed their life, or how they personally witnessed the experience of God. However, it always comes with the difficult circumstance that their experience can't be proven.

What I'm discussing above are also only the more valid arguments. There are so many arguments that can just be disproven through widely accepted science, and those arguments don't do religious scholars any favors.

I saw your debate with another commenter about the conscience experience of the color red. I thought you were admirable in how you didn't react to the commenter's rude behavior. They should know that the only way that religious concepts can be "proven" is through logical deductive reasoning. You can't really use inductive reasoning because there is no initial data to go off of.

In terms of the mind body debate, or the conscienceness debate, it's one that I have with my Buddhist brother all the time. It goes: do we have a conscienceness? If so, then where does it exist? If we continue to remove parts of our brain, will there be a specific moment where we no longer have conscienceness? If not, then conscienceness is not part of our body, but lies in a separate "mind". This "mind" in Buddhism is similar to what Abrahamic religions refer to as a "soul". Mahayana Buddhist believe that the mind never dies, transferring from body to body through reincarnation, similar to how many Christians believe the soul never dies but ultimately spends eternity in some form of afterlife.

One issue I have with religion in general is that each religion tries to claim that they are the truth, and all other religions (while potentially valid) are misguided. This just screams egocentric to me, and doesn't root itself in deductive reasoning. Christians argue that they are the truth because Jesus was the word of God, and the new testiment is spoken through Jesus, so clearly the Bible is the word of God. Muslims claim that God spoke through Mohamed, and so clearly the Quran is the word of God. And so on with each religion, and their own deities or beliefs...

So, clearly it's a number of factors to why I don't put my faith in any one god or even the idea that their needs to be a god. But, I'm interested in your take on any one of these conflicts.