(September 2, 2012 at 5:19 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: BUT..... you are young and I will not be surprised IF @ say 26 - 30 you state emphatically that ".... there is no evidence for ANY deity, it is ALL crap and I am going off to live a good life"
I will, since Dave Courtney will have punched him out long before then
.However, as a fellow angel-islander I can appreciate your position, knight, even though I obviously don't share it. In my opinion, and please don't take this as a personal criticism, kids at the age of five can see magic everywhere and be impressed by any number of magical things; I have an uncle who still has my nose, for instance [/Homer_Simpson]. So to me indoctrinating a child (I know you didn't use that term but I can't think of any other way to describe it) at such an impressionable age is not only the easiest thing in the world, it's also the sleaziest thing in the world.
I have strong hopes that, in your own time, you will outgrow the need for such a cultural crutch - "put away childish things", if you like (and I honestly don't mean that in the sense of "never mind, you'll learn the truth one day", as xtians have said to me often enough at around your age). In my opinion, you're more than halfway there already. All you need to do is find the confidence to let go with the other hand. I have a feeling you'll soar.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
