(December 10, 2019 at 12:44 pm)CarveTheFive Wrote: it’s strange to me how people think they have agency over their beliefs
it doesn’t seem to me I choose to believe or not believe anything - I just do or don’t.
Maybe I’m just splitting hairs about language but when religious people say just pray or just ask god... they must have a sense that something is listening ... it used to bother me that so many people have this peculiar mental illness but now my own life is too shitty to worry about their problems
Quote:It was not until college when I ran into my first open atheist, that I realized "off" was an ok position to hold.
Does okayness really have any influence on what you really believe?
Is it "ok" to reject claims of Apollo? Pretty sure you don't spend much time wondering if you are wrong and Apollo is real.
Pretty sure you don't spend much time rejecting claims of Yoda or Darth Vader either.
It is not only "ok" to reject old mythology, it is why sane humans no longer believe the earth is flat, and how we got humans to the moon.
If our species never questioned social norms, our species never would have left the caves.