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There is proof that most beliefs in a deity are false.
alcaray — (archived)

There are many deities who garner belief. Only one of them could be real. If you expand your search over all of recorded history then only a tiny fraction of all believers could possibly have believed in the one true God (or in the one true Pantheon, or whatever).

Now if you make the assumption that the true one(s) have an urge for people to know him (else no one would know him) then you have to explain why he/she/they/it exposes the truth to some but not to all. And who/what exposed to all the counter-believers what each of them believes? Of course, this is not a deductive proof that there is no God. But it is the beginnings of an inductive proof that can suggest the probability there is no God.

It seems pretty obvious that one of man's intrinsic features is the compulsion to create religion. This does not prove that all religion is false, but it does prove the possibility.

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