Without lambasting or denigrating religious beliefs of anyone, can we try to state why we don't think that gods of any kind have ever existed!?

As I've said, God, the tall tales of Christ, ghosts, pagan incantations etc. have, truly, represented forms of wishful thinking to me. They are ways of controlling the masses. After gaining the maturity of some extended quantity of years, and looking at this world we are in as it has always been, I continue to, respectfully, I hope, state the facts of the matter that seem so obvious.

Art Thieme