Convenience? While there are many atheists with high moral standards, there are fewer with ethical standards, and many more who have come to embrace the belief because they find divinely established ethical standards to be inconvenient. For them God is inconvenient, not inconceivable, just inconvenient.
These are those who understand that to believe in some form of God will require accompanying ethical behaviors. For them one’s self pleasuring tendancies and other behaviors are inconvenienced by such ethical behaviors as God required and requires. In that sense they are to be respected for at least they do not pretend something they are not--an argument often pointed at people of faith in their ethical/moral struggles.
Continuing that thought, at this point the athiest has company for there are those who believe in some form of God—a God that they have redefined to fit their moral proclivities. In either case, it is much easier to redefine God or to rid one’s self of God than to rid one’s self of a penchant for various pleasures and conveniences that are outside of God’s standards.
The problem is that, just as the Apostle Paul wrote to the Church at Rome, there is internal evidence that has been “hard wired” into each person. Such gives testimony to each that “there is a God and that God is there.” However, when life style choices make an ethical God inconvenient, it is easier to intellectually get rid of God.
Then too, to defend the athiest’s position requires more argument and even more faith than to take the leap of faith necssary to decide to believe in God. It is far more simple say, "God is!!!" However, at that point the issue becomes, if God exists, what will He require?
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