RE: How do I deal with the belief that maybe... Just maybe... God exists and I'm...
October 11, 2022 at 5:48 pm
(October 11, 2022 at 3:42 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I think that you need to make a distinction between emotion and reason; some of us, myself included, were abused as children with descriptions of hellfire.
Scaring children with hellfire is obviously not the right approach to teach them religion. This is not religion's fault, it's the parents'.
Now read what follows, straight from the horse's mouth :
(October 11, 2022 at 5:39 pm)Gentle_Idiot Wrote: I'm actually not one of those people who suffered that kind of nightmare.
Okay. So, as you can see, Jehanne, our guy isn't really emotionally moved by descriptions of hell, we can then rule out this possibility.
(October 11, 2022 at 5:39 pm)Gentle_Idiot Wrote: I have to bite my tongue and let the stupidity come out of their mouths. That's my own suffering right there.
Is someone holding you at gunpoint and forcing you to listen to some clergyman ? If not, what are you talking about ?
You say you're convinced God doesn't exist, without providing the thought process that led you to this silly conviction. You didn't give us anything substantial so far.
