(May 4, 2012 at 2:55 pm)Jodin Wrote: I will probably never have a strong opinion one way or the other. I am by nature curious about how things work and why things are the way they are. And I don't think i will believe for certain that there is a god or that there isn't if i don't see any proof of either the existence of god or god's unexistence. This is a question i can't accept the atheisms point of view without question, because i have something to lose.
I'm sorry, i'm probably not getting across the way i want to, because English is not my main language.
My main question is still, will stop believing in god make my life better/happier in any way?
There are a number of ways not believing god can make your life different. For example:
1. Not believing god allows you to examine the real world around you without a very tightly constraining bias
2. Not believing god would allow you to engage in more broadranging and meaningful discussions with a far more incisive class of intellects.
3. Not believing god would remove one way you can become an impediment to such scientific and social progress that shows every sign of being the most fundamental basis of humanity's long term survival
whether those difference would make your happier overall depends on the quality of the stuff you are made of.
It is certainly possible that you are made from such and green and rotten timber that these things give you less joy than would a known dilusion. But you may also be made of sterner stuff.
