MeganC,
As hard as I tried to convince myself that there was no God, I couldn't do it. To those of you who succeeded, however, I applaud you.
No atheist or agnostic "tried", hard or otherwise, to convince themselves that God exists. There is no evidence of God, therefore there is no reason to accept him.
You can convince yourself of anything if you habitually take any given proposition on faith. Why allow such an obviously flawed mental construct convince you of God, when you wouldn't accept it at any other time?
I am a pink elephant, right?
Mark
There are 10 kinds of people in this world; those that understand binary, & those that don't