The Watchmaker: my fav argument

[possibletarian]

In the old days people used to value humility, and were willing to admit that maybe they didn't have the capacity to judge. Humility is very much out of fashion now, so we all seem to assume that our own desires are what an omniscient being would do if there were one.

I just read this again, I think perhaps as societies move away from religious majorities (or strict political regime of some type weakens its grip) people then start to air the thoughts they have been having a long while.

I was raised a JW and there were definitely somethings you would never actually say, but did ponder privately it was only when I fully left and saw the ridiculousness (to me) of some positions that I spoke about then. Maybe in the same way it works with god belief, as the crowd mentality looses its grip people speak out.

Clearly if you no longer believe in a god there is not point in being humble as you did when you believed, once you see the world without a god you don't feel the need to defend a god, you decide in other ways how you should react. Another example and my once 'pet-peeve' is when believers used to say 'you are angry at god' when the reality was i was angry at them (and religion) for the apparent disconnect with reality and constant excuses for god (the same ones i used to use with unbelievers.. lol) i was angry that i once believed and used those excuses.

Now it is just a source of amusement, the path out of religious indoctrination and ways of thinking is a long one as i'm sure many on here would agree.