RE: The need to believe?
July 14, 2017 at 11:40 am
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2017 at 11:42 am by Der/die AtheistIn.)
You definetly aren't alone in this, I know how you feel. I too was raised in a Christian home and believed all what they've told me, untill I started questioning it. I'm eighteen and will begin the last year of high school on Autumn, so I still depend on my parents. I never told my parents that I'm an atheist.
One day my father said to me that I need to pray, that praying is the most important thing, that atheists are wrong, etc.
I was an atheist at the time, so his speech made confuse about my belief.
So I asked my mother in private: "What does happen if we don't pray? Will God not help us?".
She responded :"No, but praying gives you positive energy. It's comforting to imagine that a God and angels protect you".
I thought that this statement is silly. It's like you admit it to yourself that this belief is not real and you only keep it because it's a nice thought.
Why don't we apply this principle to everything else in life? Why don't we use "Mein Kampf" instead of the Bible?
"It's comforting to think that Hitler and the Sichercheitspolizei still exist and actually take care of us, it gives us POSITIVE ENERGY! Forget the parts about the superiority of a race and the Holocaust, they're part of the past. Everyone who takes this parts from "Mein Kampf" is a lunatic who doesn't understand that this book isn't propaganda, it's for positive energy!".
The idea is, in life you need to be first of all realistic and second of all optimistic.
Here's a link to a video about the spirituality of an atheist. It might help you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2nfXfTg92E
One day my father said to me that I need to pray, that praying is the most important thing, that atheists are wrong, etc.
I was an atheist at the time, so his speech made confuse about my belief.
So I asked my mother in private: "What does happen if we don't pray? Will God not help us?".
She responded :"No, but praying gives you positive energy. It's comforting to imagine that a God and angels protect you".
I thought that this statement is silly. It's like you admit it to yourself that this belief is not real and you only keep it because it's a nice thought.
Why don't we apply this principle to everything else in life? Why don't we use "Mein Kampf" instead of the Bible?
"It's comforting to think that Hitler and the Sichercheitspolizei still exist and actually take care of us, it gives us POSITIVE ENERGY! Forget the parts about the superiority of a race and the Holocaust, they're part of the past. Everyone who takes this parts from "Mein Kampf" is a lunatic who doesn't understand that this book isn't propaganda, it's for positive energy!".
The idea is, in life you need to be first of all realistic and second of all optimistic.
Here's a link to a video about the spirituality of an atheist. It might help you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2nfXfTg92E
"By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none"
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
