Feelings towards religion

[Der/die AtheistIn]

"Feelings" ultimately have nothing to do with the ability to demonstrate the credibility of what one claims, on any subject.

I didn't ditch my former religion because of feelings. I left that position over time because of deep reflection and questioning it became clear that there was no evidence for a super natural power, nor the fantastic claims of that book of mythology.

But the same can be said for every religion in the world. Nobody worldwide back in antiquity had any clue as to our modern scientific understanding of nature and reality.

It certainly is ok for atheists to have feelings. Humans regardless of label have feelings because of evolution. BUT if you are going to hold any position, it should be based on facts, evidence and should be subject to testing, falsification and independent peer review.

I've seen plenty of atheists over the years that stop at "that doesn't make sense", but really don't do any work to know why they think that. I'd say if you don't do the work to understand your own position, you're setting yourself up to fall for a slick apologist and or your own emotions and potentially fall back into theism.

I also didn't became an atheist because of emotions. I just wanted to point out that the argument that you should follow religion out of comfort, doesn't hold up if a person is happy as an atheist. I totally agree that we should base our opinions on thinking, not emotions, but I wanted to write a different argument.