(July 18, 2012 at 3:39 am)Selliedjoup Wrote: Out of interest, who was once religious and who was not?
And are you from a predominantly area? I say this as a sanctimonious cunt as I was brought up secularly, and am from one of the most secular countries in the world. So religion played no role in my past.
I am currently living in a Christian household in the Bible Belt. More specifically, I am living an a rural community with, I kid you not, more churches than any other type of building.
I had it better than some atheists here, though. My family is more modern and open-minded, so they don't care that I am an atheist nor that I bash religion, because they can separate themselves from their beliefs. I even lived in Austin (sort of, the outskirts) where any type of person was accepted.
All this and I find religion to be obsolete and foolish and the adherents pertinacious and unreasonable.
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
