RE: Decline of Religion in the west
April 18, 2019 at 6:02 am
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2019 at 6:09 am by Athene.)
(April 18, 2019 at 4:19 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: I would say that some of the people abandoning religion -even some of the atheists here- are not turning their backs on God: they are actually turning their backs on the corrupted religious institution.
Lol...There's a term for that, and it's not atheist.
I believe it's called "Spiritual, Not Religious", or irreligious theism.
For the record, that's not where I'm at in terms of belief. Nor is misotheism.
I haven't turned my back on God. I don't think a God or gods are probable.
Though I did casually believe at one time, I harbored many, many doubts. I didn't ponder them for too long because it was uncomfortable and I did get the sense that my belief was a reasonably effective means of maintaining emotional well-being, at the very least. So I pushed them aside, until I felt I no longer needed to.
Once I began entertaining those doubts more consciously and honestly, the belief diminished and fell away.
Or as holly-rollers prefer to put it...the Devil made me do it.
