christian school project

[KevinM1]

Hi Mathilda, while I appreciate your preconceived assumptions of how christians are raised you are wrong in this case. I didn't grow up believing in God or in a church. Human brain and the nature of humans are fascinating and I love studying it so I think you're great already.

The content of the post is truth and if you choose not to accept that, that is fine. I'm on an atheist forum site. I know nobody here believes in God and I'm not expecting you to. There is a God and ignoring him isn't going to make him go away. How can you disprove his existence if you never looked for him? Nothing is impossible in the science world so why is this? Nobody dedicates their lives to the tooth fairy or santa.

I love how in one sentence you tell Mathilda to stop having preconceived notions about Christians, and then in the very next paragraph you express your preconceived notions about atheists.

First of all, get one thing straight: atheism isn't about disproving god's existence.  Atheism is simply a lack of belief.  We find the so-called 'evidence' for god's existence to be severely wanting, and as such cannot believe in something that isn't proven to exist.  You are an atheist to all other gods aside from the one you believe in.  We simply go one god further.

A lot of us were theists once.  A lot of us could tell you stories about how often and desperately we prayed for salvation, or for some sign that we're not alone.  I, personally, grew up in a non-practicing Catholic household.  Belief in god and Jesus was simply assumed to be true, but even as a kid it never sat right with me.  I went through the motions and tried really, really hard to believe, but I just couldn't.  There was no evidence, and prayers never worked.  I finally admitted to myself that I never actually believed a little over 15 years ago, and I've never felt more free and honest with myself.

So, yeah, most of us here looked for god.  We looked for years.  And forgive me if I don't kindly withstand yet another round of theists telling me that I or my friends are liars, that we didn't actually search for god, or that we did it wrong and should start again.  For all the tools in the wannabe apologist's toolbox, I find that one among the most distasteful.

You also clearly don't understand science.  No, not everything is possible.  The universe works according to basic mechanics, many of them regarding motion.  There cannot be a perpetual motion machine, for instance, due to the existence of friction.

Your god is an invention of man.  I mean, shit, the bible wasn't considered the official word of god until the 4th century AD, when it was voted on.  Your giggle fests and euphoria?  I'm betting a sign of mental illness/a mental break due to your past drug use, mixed in with the typical church tricks (I'm guessing people packed in like sardines, frantic dancing to high tempo music, no AC, etc.) to induce a delirious effect.  The Holy Rollers in the Appalachians do the same thing, they just add snake venom to the mix, often with hilarious results.

Sorry, kid, you traded one form of addiction for another.  Which is exactly what the entire 'born again' movement preys on.