(April 3, 2012 at 11:59 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: The book so nice I read it twice. My motivation for reading it was to get closer to God, I was quite devout and idealistic. I had been taught God is loving and just. The barbarism contained therein didn't make me an atheist. It did make me an agnostic theist. I still believed there was a God, I just couldn't believe it could be as violent and capricious as the God the Bible describes.
(April 3, 2012 at 1:02 am)Drich Wrote: Again only if you need someone to think for you.
(April 3, 2012 at 11:59 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: The process you seem to be using does not closely resemble 'thinking' as it is commonly understood. It looks more like a way of avoiding thinking.
An agnostic theist! My very favorite kind and so rare. I was that before I just stopped caring whether or not God exists. The God I could imagine was a major improvement over the one the bible and one I would be overjoyed to meet. Ah well, I think I'm better off for having imagined him than I would have been had I not. Do you still hold out hope of such a meeting or are you essentially an atheist like me?