Welcome back CoxRox. I thought it was bit strange that you suddenly up and left all those years ago, but now it makes sort of sense. I understand that you must have been feeling a bit down, but losing one's belief system doesn't have to be "bleak". In a lot of cases, it is a very enlightening experience for the person.
It really depends on what you care about most; feeling good, or knowing the truth. Sometimes you can have both, but the truth almost always hurts when you first come across it. A lot of people don't like being out of their comfort zone; they don't like to think that they've been wrong for so many years. I don't believe in God (still), but I don't feel that life has to be bleak because of it; taking God out of the picture means we don't have a supernatural crutch to lean on, so we have to create natural crutches for ourselves, and we do that through helping each other.
I'm looking forward to you putting forward the case for Intelligent Design; I think there are more examples of bad design in the world than good, but we'll see what you've got.
It really depends on what you care about most; feeling good, or knowing the truth. Sometimes you can have both, but the truth almost always hurts when you first come across it. A lot of people don't like being out of their comfort zone; they don't like to think that they've been wrong for so many years. I don't believe in God (still), but I don't feel that life has to be bleak because of it; taking God out of the picture means we don't have a supernatural crutch to lean on, so we have to create natural crutches for ourselves, and we do that through helping each other.
I'm looking forward to you putting forward the case for Intelligent Design; I think there are more examples of bad design in the world than good, but we'll see what you've got.
