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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pariah" data-source="post: 56708" data-attributes="member: 235">OP was a shitpost and I'm not strictly an atheist but I'll humor you just for fun.I can't answer your question before we lay down some definitions first. What do you mean by a deity or a higher power? Is it conscious or unconscious? If the latter, then that is no different than the materialist position in which everything can be reduced to unthinking matter, perhaps a unified force of nature or a quantum field or whatever else. If however you posit that it's akin to a person, then show me your proof. As far as we know, mind seems to be a property of complex biological organisms, and I don't suppose that your deity is material, let alone organic. Thus the burden of proof is on you.</blockquote>