I believe God is silent because God is a myth..but a myth mankind
needs in order to not self-destruct.

You see, what is logical is not always practical when it comes to
humans.

Religion, atheism and science all serve their purposes. They do not
replace each other, but compliment humanity in their own distinctive
efforts.

We need all sorts in the world.

Atheists keep the theists honest.

Atheists help keep the theists on track when they slip up.

Atheist calm the theists down when theists start talking about killing
in the name of God or Allah.

And theists also help the atheists by giving the atheists something to
do as they go through life working to destroy religion.

The facts are this: when people are devoid of religion...they
generally stink as humans.

Until atheism can replace theist based religion as a VIABLE and REAL
way to inner peace, with a reverence of humanity, it can never take
over the world and extinguish religion.

When you get rid of one thing, it makes room for another.

Sure atheist can succeed at pointing to the flaws of religious
thought, but they have nothing to replace the flaws with. Religion
provides a set of prepackaged morals.

So theists choose the lesser of two evils while on earth, with the
hopes of hitting the jackpot in the hereafter.

When atheists become successes at 'the religion of humanity,' they may
become more successful at replacing theist based religion.

Until that time..."a mans mind may be likened to a garden which may be
intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether
cultivated or neglected, it must and will bring forth. If no useful
seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless 'weed seeds' will
fall therein and will continue to produce their kind." ~ James Allen

And religion does a good job at controlling the weeds.

Humans need moral guidance or a moral conscience since they have a
'free will' of sorts.

Actually it is like this.

We are free to do what we want -- but are not free to want what we
want.

All our actions have consequences, and many of our actions produce
consequences that end up destroying peace. (both ours and other's
peace).

This is what separates us from the animals that run solely on
instinct.

Humans run by instinct as well as moral guidance.

Whether this moral conscience in divinely inspired or from Nature I
don't know - that is why I am an agnostic.

But If I had to guess I would lean towards the atheistic view of
Nature based, since I have not found any evidence of a God such as the
monotheists claim.

....my discussion of this topic from an earlier post.

http://jesusneverexisted.org/jne/forum/index.php?topic=504.0

Take care,

V (Male)

Agnostic Freethinker
Practical Philosopher
Futurist
Urban Homesteader
Agnostic minister of secular humanism to the mind manacled,
spiritually sick, defiance based atheist.
AA#2

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