RE: You must seek something else, or something is seriously wrong with you
August 7, 2016 at 4:32 am
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2016 at 4:33 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(August 7, 2016 at 2:55 am)KJV-reader Wrote: You can believe and still take responsibility for your own life.
No only you can, but you HAVE TO. That's why I said searching for the invisible, omnipotent sky-daddy is a futile pursuit - you never find him. Because our responsibility for our lives is a real thing, while god, controlling reality - is not.
People who believe in god are just kidding themselves (because the fantasy is emotionally pleasing), all the while behaving as if there was no god - fastening their seat-belts, looking both ways before crossing the street and so on.
(August 7, 2016 at 2:55 am)KJV-reader Wrote: Not all Christians mess up or have something good happen and look to the heavens.
That doesn't matter. Abrahamic religions all presuppose the existence of an omnipotent, all-knowing being, who created and controls the universe according to some sort of plan and who knows the future - that means your perceived responsibility for whatever happens is greatly diminished. Of course - theists usually only credit god with whatever happens to them, if it's convenient. As I mentioned before - irrational people are not in any way consistent and have little-to-no appreciation for logic, but are very skilled at cherry-picking and holding contradictory beliefs.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
