You do not need a religion to live your life. Everyone has ups and downs in life to greater or lesser degrees. Labels, not even that of "atheist" will automatically determine if that individual will do good or bad in life. There is no magic to human's behaviors. Our species ability to be cruel or compassionate is not in a religion, not in a political party, not in an economic view. There were no nations, no political parties, no religions 200,000 years ago, and life, not just humans, but all life, was evolving without it.
Our species ability to be cruel or compassionate isn't in a label, but in our evolution. Certainly it is still up to us as a species how we interact with each other, but there is no magic to the good or bad we do. There is not one nation, friend or foe alike, that does not have hospitals or prisons.
Do not feel bad because you left a position. It is ok to look at a position and come to the conclusion that the position was not valid. If our species never question social norms our species never would have left the caves.
Humans do not need religion. Religion is nothing more than a rabbit's foot or a jock's superstition that lucky socks help them win the game.
It isn't to say that religious people are bad, no. But most humans get sold the religion of their parents long before they can formulate adult critical thinking skills.
If you left one religion for the Jewish religion, the people who sold it to you still are a result of their ancestors passing it down to them. No religion escapes this fact other than the spin offs created by older religions that become newer religions.
If it makes you feel any better, the name "Yahweh" was stolen by the Hebrews from the polytheistic Canaanites.
Our species ability to be cruel or compassionate isn't in a label, but in our evolution. Certainly it is still up to us as a species how we interact with each other, but there is no magic to the good or bad we do. There is not one nation, friend or foe alike, that does not have hospitals or prisons.
Do not feel bad because you left a position. It is ok to look at a position and come to the conclusion that the position was not valid. If our species never question social norms our species never would have left the caves.
Humans do not need religion. Religion is nothing more than a rabbit's foot or a jock's superstition that lucky socks help them win the game.
It isn't to say that religious people are bad, no. But most humans get sold the religion of their parents long before they can formulate adult critical thinking skills.
If you left one religion for the Jewish religion, the people who sold it to you still are a result of their ancestors passing it down to them. No religion escapes this fact other than the spin offs created by older religions that become newer religions.
If it makes you feel any better, the name "Yahweh" was stolen by the Hebrews from the polytheistic Canaanites.
