(August 11, 2015 at 8:49 am)lkingpinl Wrote:(August 11, 2015 at 4:50 am)robvalue Wrote: ...
I'm telling you as a concerned friend, your excuses for God sound just like battered spouse syndrome.
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I'm a little curious why you say you are concerned however. If there is no God, each person finds their own meaning in this life and I find that in my delusion of a sky daddy which fulfills my life to immense happiness. You believe there is nothing but this short life and we simply decay, to say you are concerned makes no sense. Concerned about what?
If there is no god, you still have this life. You can live it well or poorly, and you can influence others, helping to improve their lives or helping make their lives worse.
If you pay attention to the metaphor that robvalue provided, you should understand what he is concerned about. Imagine a woman who is married to a man who beats her. Imagine she makes up excuses for her husband, and imagine that she says that she is happy to be married to her husband. Do you just walk away and say that is fine, that she is happy and so we should all do nothing about it?
Many of us were religious in the past, and know what it is like to believe in religion and know what it is like to believe it is nonsense. I have never met anyone who deconverted who was not happier being an atheist, after a sufficient time passed for them to get used to the idea. (At first, it is common to be upset, but that tends to go away with time.) I should imagine that leaving an abusive spouse is similar, though I have no personal experience with that, nor am I overly familiar with others who have.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
