(February 10, 2016 at 3:45 am)GeneralDog Wrote: I didn't mean to word myself in that manner. Whenever I say I "Chose" to be atheist. I meant that I saw the evidence and had changed my view on the world. I assumed you didnt mean that all of a sudden I would just say "kk time to go back now". Still, I want to loose faith in the sense that I wanted to remove believing without seeing. To me thats kinda what faith means. I kinda word myself weirdly and I'm sorry about that.
No worries, it was my misunderstanding.
I agree, shedding faith in things with no evidence is always good. Dogmatic belief is harmful.
What I meant by all that (probably could have said it succinctly) is that you have to use that knowledge to break out of your thought cycles.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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