Thread: How many of you guys are religious?

I would mind.

I'm not saying it does work.

I'm saying that it does not necessitate God. You are the one making this claim so I am asking you to defend it.

It is patent that some things just are. For example, gravity pulls things down. This is the way nature is. There is no need to hypothesise a God being which pulls something down whenever it is dropped. It is totally superfluous; either God just is, and God makes gravity, or gravity just is.

In the same way, if we assume that reincarnation is possible (which I do not), there is no reason that it cannot 'just be', rather than there being a superfluous conscious being performing exactly the same action behind the scenes; unless you can show that any mechanism of reincarnation would necessarily necessitate such a being.