RE: Do you wish there's a god?
April 5, 2019 at 10:36 am
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2019 at 10:40 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 5, 2019 at 10:01 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:LOL, no worries, man.
Not trying to start anything, but that really sounds like one of your reasons for not believing was contradictory theistic claims. Not finding such claims believable isn't 'no reason', IMHO, though you may have been too young to articulate why you found them unbelievable at the time.
Being raised with religious plurality tends to have the effect of normalizing the notion that many religions can be true. Which is a position I still hold today. I think that all religions express true things. The existence of gods simply isn't among them.
I'm sure that there's some underlying cause for why I'm not nor have ever been the believing type, but a cause isn't a reason, and if you can't articulate a reason or even identify a reason..you probably don't have one.
It may be that I'm not genetically disposed to those sorts of perceptions or ideas. It may be that I didn't receive some fundamental behavioral modification that others did as children, it may be that I just didn't give it any thought, pure accident...etc etc etc. It just wasn't any sort of thorough or conscious rational process. I didn't reason my way into it, as many here describe in their later life falling away from faith.
As I've commented before...I was into curious george at the time, not logic.
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