(August 28, 2015 at 8:00 pm)Spooky Wrote:(August 27, 2015 at 5:49 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Hello everyone, this is a spin off of this thread: http://atheistforums.org/thread-35404.html ...posted by Shuffle.
While it is a a very difficult question to answer, I thought it was interesting to think about, and wanted to ask the rest of you and hear answers from the other side.
Anyone can answer, of course, but I am most interested in hearing from those who have been atheist their whole lives, or at least, who have never been a devout/practicing theist.
If you were a theist tomorrow, how would you change the rest of your life? Personality, morals, etc.
Thanks!
EDIT TO ADD: Any of the Abrahamic religions.
I would feel guilty being a part of something so violent.
My answer remains for both threads, I was once. What I am now is an improvement.
Courage friend, religion may promote violence so to does it promote peace. Judge not the sword for the action's of those who wield it, for religion is an instrument for peace just as much as it is war. Yes blame religion for violence, what a good scapegoat it makes! No need for you to look deeper into the problems that plague your world when you can just blame it all on religion, instead of the avarice of a few.
What you are now is exactly the same as you were, less than a pawn, at least a pawn can tell when it is being used.