Atheistic Rant: why believing in God is impossible.

Believing in God, as the title of this posts suggests, is impossible. This may sound like a bold claim, being that many believers (Christians, Muslims, Jews, etc.) outright say that they believe and/or know God (aka: Allah, Yahweh, Flying-Spaghetti Monster) exists. A person can claim to believe in God, but one would assume they are referring to more than just a word or idea. Atheists and believers have one thing in common, and that is that God is a word with particular perceptions and ideas attached to it (it doesn't matter if a believer doesn't agree to this, that is what God is to them).

Well, how is this different than say...cheese, for example? Well, the difference is that the senses can confirm the existence of the cheese on some level. Not only this, but humans can describe cheese using detailed descriptions to confirm with relative certainty that cheese exists objectively. While taste, color, etc. do not exist objectively, they do exist subjectively, within the human experience (and can be described in language). This is how we as humans are able to determine the difference between things that are real, and things that are not (i.e. delusion, hallucination, and so forth).

All of this should be painfully obvious, but I needed to set those points up to go on to my main argument.  God is impossible to be believed in because nobody knows what God is. This may be confusing to believers; what I am referring to is not what God is attributed for (i.e. his actions), but what the being actually is.

The problem here is that God cannot be sensed with any of the senses, this is why we cannot create any sort of description of it (the way a cognitive exercise makes a person feel is no proof of anything outside of itself). Emotions and "feelings" do believers a disservice by confusing them as to what is true and what is not. People can confuse the physical euphoric sensation that is generated when contemplating the existence of an all-powerful being (and how that being loves them and is protecting them) with some sort of "6th sense". Such a cognitive exercise can create a powerful sense of well-being; but, this well-being is not a confirmation of any sort of objective being, only a subjective being. In other words, God cannot be shown to exist because this described "feeling" is not caused by sensory input; what is actually occurring is a cognitive behavior is being used to affect emotional well-being in a "feel-good" way (if it feels good it must be true! or maybe not..).

It is impossible to believe in a being when nothing about the being itself is known. This is a very important thing that believers should really think about (and many atheists already have). This kind of thinking comes naturally to atheists, but many believers don't think much about philosophical concept of a god.

For the atheists out there reading this, whenever a believer gets into a discussion about God, first ask them: "what is God" -- not what God is responsible -- or how God makes people feel. Ask them to describe what God is. They will claim 'it is unknown', and that is the point; an unknown thing cannot be believed in BECAUSE IT IS UNKNOWN!

God = X
X = ??
?? = unknown (aka: nothing in the context of human awareness)

Believers believe in nothing, because that is exactly how much they know about their target of worship; believers worship nothing.