Religion only exists because people are uncomfortable with death.

More useless praying?? Dont you people do anything that actually requires thought and logic?? lol Prayer=Doing nothing and pretending to do something. What a joke!

Dominican papi, there are no such things as "real life" prophecies. There are only good guesses. Anyone can make predictions about the future and be right some of the time. Never in the entire history of humanity, though, has a "prophet" ever been correct 100% of the time.

Yup. You sir/ma'am are correct.

Congratulations, you've won the Internet! You can take the rest of the day off.

I'll never understand any of this. It's pretty much a useless battle to convert either side. You can't convince me God is real, and I can't convince you that he might not be.

(nothing I'm about to say is meant to be mean, just me answering plainly)

"I know He is real because I can feel His love." - As do followers of every other religion in the world. Why should I take your word over theirs? Or are you one who suggests all other religions are 'kind of' true and they can all go to heaven too?

"He loved me enough to send His son in the form of a man (human)to die as the ultimate sacrifice for my sins." - The story is he had to sacrifice him to forgive us of our sins. But why couldn't he . . . just forgive us for our sins? Why did he have to create a loophole for a rule he himself created? Is vicarious redemption really moral? If I loved you, I could pay you debt or take your place in prison, but nothing should take away your responsibility. Plus, the story of original sin condemns the nature of man for daring to have morality, reason, creativity and joy.

"I ask you this, do you believe in the wind? I'm sure your answer is yes. You can't see the wind, right? You can see the effects of wind though. God is the same. We can't see Him, but I can see the effect He has had on my life." - You defeat your own argument when you point out that we can see the effects of the wind. No one has to believe in wind, we easily observe it every day. Seeing the effects of God only happens in the minds of believers.

"Now because of His love and my acceptance of a savior, I will live for eternity with all other believers." - Have you really stopped and considered the implications of an eternal existence in any sort of afterlife? If there are fun things to do, how long would it take you to do everything you like to do so many times it becomes unbearably boring? Then how long would it take to try everything else and do it to the point of it being dull and tired? Maybe a thousand years? Then you still have thousands and thousands, millions and millions, billions and billions, on and on and on. Sounds like Hell to me. On top of that, there would be no goals, nothing for you to reach for, strive for, accomplish for yourself. You have no way to make an impact in that reality because every things already done for you. Plus, you get to know the entire time that people are suffering in Hell, for all eternity. Sorrow is a key component of a good person. A good person has sorrow for others less fortunate. So if there is no sorrow in heaven for the billions suffering in hell, I could only assume there were no decent people there.

And how do you know for sure that that thing you're feeling is 'God''s love? Unless its exact words to you were 'This is God, and I'm real', how can you be 100% positive? Is it possible there's a perfectly natural explanation for this 'feeling' that we still haven't figured out yet - the same way we also used to attribute, say, the sunrise/sunset to God but now know its actual natural cause? Is it possible you only attribute this feeling to God because, to slightly paraphrase Carly Simon, that's the way you always heard it would be?  How do you know for sure the sources of this information were accurate?

These are the sort of questions we atheists consider rather than just blindly accepting whatever we've been told to think by others. When these answers are unsatisfactory to us, we reject them.