Does God / a supreme being exist?

[Trademaster]

If you need the threat of heaven or hell, with some vengful being watching over you ready to eternally damn you in order to not be a jerk, then go for it.

If you can be a decent person without the threat of punishment from an overbearing father figure then go for it.

If there is a form of afterlife and something is going to judge my actions in life to determine weather it will be pleasant or nasty, I would hope that the judgment was on how I lived my life and not weather or not I provided lip service to a corporation that derives it's authority by stating that they are the conduit to a supreme being.

As for evidence, I've read reports of people stating that they have been touched physically by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and I still have my doubts as to the veracity of their claims. At least their church is a pirate ship, and their base tenet is "don't be a jerk to others". Oh, and the diminishing number of pirates is the cause of global warming. It's true, they have a chart.