First Atheism forum
May 3, 2012 at 5:23 am
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2012 at 5:26 am by daniel.ian.morris.)
I'm sat here at work, my mind-numbingly tedious job, and decided I would look for an Atheism forum to join so I could engage in some interesting conversation/debates/general banter.
I'm 20, I come from a part of England called Stoke on Trent and I'm going to be studying Creative Writing and Philosophy this coming September at university.
As I'm sure most people on here have, I used to go to church, went to Christian camps/outings, youth clubs, all of that. My parents are not religious, but the youth group I used to attend was. Though when I hit the age of about 13/14 I started to wonder about everything, and more specifically, what role 'god' had ever actually played in my life. The answer was none. I spent the next few years wondering about life, our place on Earth and our place in the universe. Then I really started to get into astronomy and realised that us and everything on this planet are incredibly insignificant. I began to ponder the origins of religion and the thing it nearly always came down to was this:
Religion is a logical and natural invention for intelligent beings who are stupid enough to not understand how things work or why things happen.
I say stupid not in an insulting way, but in the way that science has not been delved into enough to understand things such as floods, tornados, earthquakes, death, disease, the night sky, even certain types of trees/plants would have been mystical to an unevolved species.
I'm sure many of you have watched the Christopher Hitchens and Tony Blair debate, and that you have probably picked up on the recurring themes in Tony's arguments which got incredibly annoying because he never actually answered any of Hitchens' questions he just recycled the same line over and over - 'I'm not saying that people don't do bad in the name of religion, but I am saying that peopl do good'. Though Hitchens made an amazing point that I had never thought about before. That was if religion got rid of all super-natural claims and was truly a thing of Humanism, then it would actually be a force for good in the world.
But yes, hopefully I'll get to know some people quite well and take part in some interesting stuff!
I also enjoy drawing. Dark drawings hahaha!
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I'm 20, I come from a part of England called Stoke on Trent and I'm going to be studying Creative Writing and Philosophy this coming September at university.
As I'm sure most people on here have, I used to go to church, went to Christian camps/outings, youth clubs, all of that. My parents are not religious, but the youth group I used to attend was. Though when I hit the age of about 13/14 I started to wonder about everything, and more specifically, what role 'god' had ever actually played in my life. The answer was none. I spent the next few years wondering about life, our place on Earth and our place in the universe. Then I really started to get into astronomy and realised that us and everything on this planet are incredibly insignificant. I began to ponder the origins of religion and the thing it nearly always came down to was this:
Religion is a logical and natural invention for intelligent beings who are stupid enough to not understand how things work or why things happen.
I say stupid not in an insulting way, but in the way that science has not been delved into enough to understand things such as floods, tornados, earthquakes, death, disease, the night sky, even certain types of trees/plants would have been mystical to an unevolved species.
I'm sure many of you have watched the Christopher Hitchens and Tony Blair debate, and that you have probably picked up on the recurring themes in Tony's arguments which got incredibly annoying because he never actually answered any of Hitchens' questions he just recycled the same line over and over - 'I'm not saying that people don't do bad in the name of religion, but I am saying that peopl do good'. Though Hitchens made an amazing point that I had never thought about before. That was if religion got rid of all super-natural claims and was truly a thing of Humanism, then it would actually be a force for good in the world.
But yes, hopefully I'll get to know some people quite well and take part in some interesting stuff!
I also enjoy drawing. Dark drawings hahaha!
daniel.morris
