RE: [Quranic Reflection]: the Hajj.
July 30, 2021 at 4:42 pm
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2021 at 4:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Im getting that you don't realize that your response establishes my point about the typicality of islamic belief - but fuck it, does it matter?
No, I've never believed in gods. I've believed in all sorts of silly shit, but never gods. I have no deconversion story, I don't know what it's like, I have no deconversion arguments..and never needed one. I hear what the faithful say...I'm actually pretty well read in our consequential myths...but they've never been anything more than that to me, as much as I enjoy the genre.
I see no god, need no god, and worship no god. Never have. That's how I stumble through my turgid existence. To put it very simply, even if that's a disservice, what I do see is all enough for me, and it's always been that way. I'm invested in what I do see because there is no other thing, to me. Life is as good or as bad as we make it, and...mostly..life is a hell of alot better than either you or even my fellow but ex-believing atheists(commonly) believe it to be. I chalk that down to the lingering effects of their indocrination into your shared life denying worldview. Your beliefs...in my opinion, are poisonous - and that's even worse than their being untrue.
Which, they are.
In fact, I'm absolutely certain that you would be surprised by what you and I don't disagree about, even though you wrongly believe that your own poisonous beliefs - genuinely held, are fundamental to those beliefs.
No, I've never believed in gods. I've believed in all sorts of silly shit, but never gods. I have no deconversion story, I don't know what it's like, I have no deconversion arguments..and never needed one. I hear what the faithful say...I'm actually pretty well read in our consequential myths...but they've never been anything more than that to me, as much as I enjoy the genre.
I see no god, need no god, and worship no god. Never have. That's how I stumble through my turgid existence. To put it very simply, even if that's a disservice, what I do see is all enough for me, and it's always been that way. I'm invested in what I do see because there is no other thing, to me. Life is as good or as bad as we make it, and...mostly..life is a hell of alot better than either you or even my fellow but ex-believing atheists(commonly) believe it to be. I chalk that down to the lingering effects of their indocrination into your shared life denying worldview. Your beliefs...in my opinion, are poisonous - and that's even worse than their being untrue.
Which, they are.
In fact, I'm absolutely certain that you would be surprised by what you and I don't disagree about, even though you wrongly believe that your own poisonous beliefs - genuinely held, are fundamental to those beliefs.
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