RE: What's up?
January 12, 2016 at 7:23 pm
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2016 at 7:35 pm by Simon Moon.)
(January 8, 2016 at 2:56 pm)Aegon Wrote: Hey! My name is Aegon. I'm 20 years old, from Long Island, NY. I was raised Catholic. At about 16 I realized that I couldn't make myself believe in God, or at the very least, the Christian depiction of God. I became an adamant atheist for a couple of years. I suppose I felt lied to and cheated by religion? Whatever the reason, I was a major dickhole about it. After a little over a year, I realized that religion just didn't concern me anymore. It had no effect on my life. I had no reason to bash it or follow it. So now I'm more of an "apathetist" if you will, but I was browsing the forums and this seemed like a fun place to read, discuss, debate...so I registered.
Welcome!
Do you actually think that religion does not have an effect on your life?!
And you live on planet Earth?
You must have access to a drastically different news service than I do. One that does not report on: Islamic terrorism, Planned Parenthood shootings, public schools teaching pseudoscience, just for a start.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
