@Suzianne
Well sure IF a god really exists. Right now all I see is death and destruction of entire ecosystems. I would think if a god saw all that crap humans are doing to themselves and the planet said god would come down REALLY pissed and start knocking heads.
That NEVER happened and all the tales in the bible and the rest, Koran and such, ALL just man made rules just SAYING this came directly from god, so DON'T eat fish and milk together.....
Why does these religions capture so many billions of people?
I would love to know that.
My assumption is people are afraid of their shadow so anyone coming around saying they have the words of a god is taken whole with zero in the way of independent thinking, having given THAT right up when they bought into the man made religions in the world today.
That said, like you said it is above our pay grade but in the absence of some real god stuff, I'll go in the direction towards atheism but since we can't know either way, is there or is there not a god, cannot be proven either way so in my mind atheism is another version of religion.
I guess I would be called Agnostic but for me all that means is I think ALL organized religions are man made, which does not prove there is a god or is not a god, since we all know about the Popper rule, if it cannot be falsified and so forth it cannot be proven in science.
So it comes down to opinion and belief which is also not a proof for or against a god.
It's just that books of the bible in verses where it says a man is worth 50 shekels but a woman is only worth 30, do you think a GOD would actually say that? That a woman who gives birth to humans is so low on the totem pole a god would say, Women are SUCH bitches? Doesn't make ANY kind of sense.
And SO many other examples of OBVIOUS man made rules CLAIMED to have come from a god but CLEARLY just a man setting folks up to build a following.
I guess it shows humans are gullible.
Look at TODAY, where millions of IDIOTS drank the Trump koolaid and that wasn't even based on religion, just based on a dude who can fire up his base.
Trump is a poster boy for the idea of the ANTI Christ, But human only, not god in sight....