(January 23, 2016 at 10:04 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(January 23, 2016 at 9:51 pm)The Inquisition Wrote: There are certain things you can't unlearn, when you understand and accept just how contrived, political and man-made the bible is, it simply isn't a source of truth anymore, it's just another book written by men, another story.
The realization that it's just another mythological construct, with nothing fundamentally new or transcendent that hasn't been said before, leaves it as nothing more than a story, told by people that want to somehow convince themselves that euphoric immortality is possible and attainable, even though most of us acknowledge this is impossible, if only a god can help us attain it, then it will somehow work.
I've found it better to simply accept the reality of limits to our mortality, many beliefs represent a beautiful dream, but it's only a dream.
And yet there are self proclaimed ex-atheists out there.
Yeah, the desire to believe something is true can be stronger than what our rational mind wants to accept.
Using the supernatural to explain events in your life is a failure of the intellect to comprehend the world around you. -The Inquisition
