(October 21, 2011 at 4:28 pm)CoxRox Wrote: May I ask you, if you are a former Christian?
No, I was confirmed in a church when I was thirteen, but I had already decided at the age of twelve that I didn't believe. I can say I really relate though with the questioning of our purpose after loss of loved ones. I've lost two very good friends at young ages and after the second I started searching to see if there was a god behind everything. Not the Christian god, but I really needed there to be a purpose behind things and a reason behind the tragedy I experienced. Eventually I came to the conclusion that I was unable to set my emotional bias aside and have returned to the null hypothesis of lacking belief.
CoxRox Wrote:I believe in a God who loves us and created us for a purpose. I believe Christ is the only viable 'explanation' of this. I can't prove this to anyone. It is a personal belief that I think only God Himself can help you with.
We just have to disagree here, because I searched and searched and found nothing beyond my own desires for purpose.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
