RE: Thoughts on Atheism (and a plea to the religious)
July 9, 2012 at 12:26 am
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2012 at 12:29 am by Mystic.)
(July 8, 2012 at 4:46 am)KnockEmOuttt Wrote: I come from a christian background. I was a devout christian for more than half of my life. It was actually through bible study and religious instruction that I came to be an atheist (amongst other factors, but it was largely an informed decision).
When you find out a religion is false, you automatically know your faith was misplaced. But was it totally misplaced? I feel there is an attraction to the divine in religions, and our previous faith really is centralized on faith in the sacred link to the soul and greatness and beauty beyond us. But the religion muddles that with all sorts of complexity, some of it of beauty, some of it not, but none of it divine.
It's emotional way to distance ourselves from the Creator protrayed by the Abrahamic religions, and then we feel distanced from the Creator as we never worshipped other then it but now are disgusted by it.
However if you recall, you really were attracted only to one aspect, and that as the aspect of beauty, that of love, mercy, compassion, forbearance, grace.
Once that distance from God happens, then it's hard to feel God exists as believers do.
But something that happened to me, is that while I was in my religion, I began seriously questioning the image of the Creator, and realized I was attracted of one side of that Creator and not the other opposite side.
I suggest trying to recall your memory of faith in God and to see really if it was all an illusion, of that your faith was partially an illusion, and partly based on reality.
The reality that is based upon I feel, is that, whatever ultimate honor, ultimate greatness, ultimate goodness, and ultimate beauty is, is that exists and is the necessary existence. Everything can exist, but doesn't have to, except that. However, religion misplaced that properly basic knowledge of God with attributes unbefitting of ultimate honor/beauty etc...
As your mind matured or when religion was proven false, you realized that image of the Creator was not the ultimate being. But was your faith misplaced that there was an ultimate being?
This is no one can answer but yourself. Everyone must answer this honestly.
I believe all answers are dignified, as long as one is honest to themselves about it.
