(March 27, 2018 at 12:00 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I'm just asking you guys to justify the human experience in a Atheistic framework.
I recite a famous quote by Christopher Hitchens when people ask similar questions about my lack of belief:
"The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth with all its mystery, beauty and pain is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more".
If you're asking questions you're already at least halfway there to dropping your god. Perhaps your questions are better directed to yourself. What are you afraid of by leaving religion? Fear is what keeps many people in religion, rather than high-minded questions. Keeping questioning; you'll get there.

-Teresa
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