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Young people have a lot more perspective these days. God is less necessary in a world where the answer to any question is only a Google search away.

That said -- just because young people don't claim religion is "very important" to them doesn't mean they don't have any sense of spirituality.

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(I feel that a take like this can be shared frankly between non-believers, but that when speaking to a crowd which is a mix it's disrespectful and analogous to proselytizing. I mean, clearly a believer is going to take issue with your usage of "perspective" here. OK, with that out of the way...)

The quote I like about questions is from Dawkins (one of the most aggressive proselytizers, sigh): the only unanswerable question is, "Why is there something rather than nothing?"

Or we can think of Google as tier 1 support for God. I think there are still a lot of questions Google can’t answer.

Shrugs, There are lots of things we don't know, that doesn't mean you wedge God in when we don't know something because eventually we probably will know that thing and then God is pushed back again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps

I personally don't believe in God nor do I have any objection to other people believing in god except where they think their belief gives them special powers to influence things beyond 'one person, one say' then I get annoyed - fortunately I live in a largely secular country (and becoming more so) so it's not an issue I run into with much regularity.

Knowing more about the natural world doesn't eliminate God. It makes the unexplainable parts more amazing.

It's similar to how holders of doctorates say that their achievement makes more clear what they don't know.

On the other hand the more we understand about the way the universe works the less need is there for God as an explanation.

There simply isn't any evidence for his/her/its/their existence.

Religion is a representation of man’s yearning to answer “why?”. Some questions don’t have answers and that’s okay. Having faith in the process of learning we realize that answers can be derived through logic and fact. God is a concept variable to represent the answer to that question for those who haven’t realized the purpose of such a concept. As such, time passes, more mysteries are unfolded, and there is less need for mystical thought.

Or, as the saying goes, the more you learn, the more you learn how much exactly you don't know.

"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you”

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