(November 12, 2018 at 12:27 pm)Everena Wrote:(November 12, 2018 at 12:18 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Regardless of what the truth is, we choose to be truthful and honest with ourselves. That honesty is what makes people recognize truth without falsehood and dishonesty is what mixes falsehood with truth.Yes, I agree with you. Too many horrific things have happened that were supposedly done in the name of religion. And too much suffering exists in our world and it makes people wonder about what kind of God would allow this to happen? It took me a long time to make my own peace with all of that, but I never really lost faith. I have just always felt a sense a purpose for being here, and I could never imagine a state of not being alive.
As for God, if he exists, and I believe he does, then love towards him is a connection, it's not going to be something like how you see everything else, it's a pointer, and it needs to hold to the perfect pointer, or else, like my Deist days, will just make up God to be my stupid thoughts that have no reality or basis, and I will fabricate who he is by mere whims.
Recognizing God as oppose to creating who he is, is the greatest trial. Atheists are mostly hated, because they are unconvinced with all this made up gods, that are not worth people's time.
But the proof for God and recognizing him, it's something most humans trivialize, and instead use God for their political Agendas, for their egos, for hate, for justifying wars, etc...
It's no wonder some humans just think get rid of the big thing on top, and we can get along better!
(November 12, 2018 at 12:27 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Which part is not true? That you are in your right mind?If you were stating that literally, you do realize that you are claiming that 93% of the world is not in their right mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_atheism
Yes. And you would think otherwise?
The fact that you think Christianity is the truth despite the fact that initially 93% of the people even in societies that later embraced it thought chritianity was amoral lunacy makes it clear you have no problem writing off the sanity of 93% of the people if that suited your argument.
As it happens even real Progress is never initiated or initially embraced by 93% of the people. So the 93% of the world’s people is not of the sort of right mind that sees beyond trivial easy to embrace fantasies.