Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Well if you believe that a negative event is proof of or points to God's non-existence, I was wondering there must be positive things in life, so why don't they influence you towards a belief in God? If death a reason for non-belief shouldn't the inverse be the equally acceptable? Life is the reason for a belief in God?

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.