Hello Fellow Atheists,

It seems to me when you think about cause and effect, you have to conclude
any particular event either has a cause or it does not. The option it does
not have a cause is very unappealing

because this would be like everything
in existence has been destroyed and recreated again different for no good
reason. This scenario is very unattractive and removes any illusion of free
will.

This only leaves the conclusion that any particular event has a cause
and hence determinism. The proposition by our religious friends that the
cause may be God performing a miracle is flawed because the same logic
applies even to God. Either God is governed by cause and effect or He is
not. Let me say a God not governed by prayer or at least some kind of
previous set of events is very repulsive. Hence, I say again the only
reasonable belief system is determinism. This does not exclude God but any
reasonable person would conclude the that a determined God is no different
to any one of us. Believing in a determined creator God is just one level
of complication that reasonable people would reject.

Hence I believe in determinism