I am genuinely sorry if I gave the impression that I thought people on this forum where a bunch of idiots, it is clearly not the case. After spending 30 years of my life clearly believing something was 100 percent true despite the evidence to the contrary, it is me that is the idiot.
After spends many hours watching people with an opposing worldview to mine the penny has started to drop and to be honest it is a real shock. I'm not even really sure that I know why I am on this forum. My click of friends are predominantly Christian and I now feel like a hypocrite and a pariah when I am around them (which is no fault of theirs - they have no idea what is going on in my mind and treat me just as kindly as ever). My first point of contact when I came here was Astonished - and to be honest he just confirmed many (no doubt irrational) prejudices I have about non-theists. Anyway, that's enough of that. I really like Carl Sagan and the way he was able to dismantle fallacies that people build about themselves without attacking them personally. The world was a better place for having someone like him on it.
After spends many hours watching people with an opposing worldview to mine the penny has started to drop and to be honest it is a real shock. I'm not even really sure that I know why I am on this forum. My click of friends are predominantly Christian and I now feel like a hypocrite and a pariah when I am around them (which is no fault of theirs - they have no idea what is going on in my mind and treat me just as kindly as ever). My first point of contact when I came here was Astonished - and to be honest he just confirmed many (no doubt irrational) prejudices I have about non-theists. Anyway, that's enough of that. I really like Carl Sagan and the way he was able to dismantle fallacies that people build about themselves without attacking them personally. The world was a better place for having someone like him on it.