My Introduction: Hello
July 12, 2016 at 6:13 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2016 at 6:23 pm by MyGLeonTrotsky.)
Hello forum. I decided to join because I just randomly found this forum on Google. In short, I grew up in a nominally Christian household, became a conservative/creationist Christian, left right-wing religion and politics after Mitt Romney lost to Obama, became Eastern Orthodox and I had a faith crisis in October 2013 after some irreconcilable realities about the universe with my faith and some inconsistencies within Christianity that I also couldn't reconcile. I've studied the Bible in Greek and the Qur'an in Arabic, and I've studied philosophy and religion generally. The history of Christianity is also something I am well disposed to. I am also an avid reader of almost anything.
I currently hold to more misotheistic views of god, I think if he existed, I still might choose to defy him because that would be the correct ethical and moral action for me to take. I also believe that Marcion of Sinope was the best theologian who ever lived. The god who created the Universe and the god of love and goodness cannot be the same being. The god who created this universe would make the mass murderers of human history seem like saints. I also agree with Jean Paul Sartre that real meaning is derived from one's own learned experiences. Religion cannot derive true meaning in life, it only gives a meaning to you without you having done any work trying to find out the answer on your own. I am not an anti-theist though. I believe, as social animals, we human beings make up everything, religion is one of those things and that will not end. Humans will continue to make things up and tell stories, it's how we evolved. We've tried to quash religious tendencies before, in the so-called 'communist' Eastern bloc countries, and it always comes back. Always. So, being against religion in it's entirety is a futile effort I think, albeit a noble one.
Anyway, that's about it.
I currently hold to more misotheistic views of god, I think if he existed, I still might choose to defy him because that would be the correct ethical and moral action for me to take. I also believe that Marcion of Sinope was the best theologian who ever lived. The god who created the Universe and the god of love and goodness cannot be the same being. The god who created this universe would make the mass murderers of human history seem like saints. I also agree with Jean Paul Sartre that real meaning is derived from one's own learned experiences. Religion cannot derive true meaning in life, it only gives a meaning to you without you having done any work trying to find out the answer on your own. I am not an anti-theist though. I believe, as social animals, we human beings make up everything, religion is one of those things and that will not end. Humans will continue to make things up and tell stories, it's how we evolved. We've tried to quash religious tendencies before, in the so-called 'communist' Eastern bloc countries, and it always comes back. Always. So, being against religion in it's entirety is a futile effort I think, albeit a noble one.
Anyway, that's about it.
"It's not fake, it's faith!"
