Ahh, so you are a skeptic. That is generally what leads people to question their faith, after all. You look at your mother and your father and your community and your compatriots, and you just have to wonder whether they really believe the crap that is spoonfed to them every Sunday.
Honestly, the more people press you to stop questioning and stop thinking, the more you are compelled to do so. It's as if they are hiding something from themselves, and your questions would erode their mental block against evidence. Meanwhile, they must work to build up your own mental block so you might end up just like them.
Certainty and dogma will only hold us back.
Honestly, the more people press you to stop questioning and stop thinking, the more you are compelled to do so. It's as if they are hiding something from themselves, and your questions would erode their mental block against evidence. Meanwhile, they must work to build up your own mental block so you might end up just like them.
Certainty and dogma will only hold us back.
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true.
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
