RE: It's a trap!
September 15, 2012 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2012 at 7:59 pm by SeekerOfKnowledge.)
(September 15, 2012 at 7:51 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: Why do you dislike religion?
I don't, I love it. Its hilarious.
How did you come to believe (or not) in your current deity?
Lack of proof for existence, expanded my knowledge and discovered things are infinitely more complex than made out by religion, grew up.
What has been your worst experience with Christians?
Wrong question. I don't automatically define people by their belief systems as humans are varied in personality and intellect and not to be judged by a label but who they are. You should be asking what is my worst experience with Christianity or if you want to be completely unbiased; religion.
What has been your most pleasant experience with Christians?
See above.
What has been your worst experience with religion?
Indoctrination. I was indoctrinated from an early age. The worst thing you can do to a human being is take away his capacity for reason and make him a dogmatic sycophantic slave living in fear of an all powerful being he is also commanded to unconditionally love or else burn. It reduced my quality of life and my ability to think rationally considerably.
I grew out of that and I am better for it, those are chains I will never wear again.
What has been your best experience with religion?
Discovering it was nonsense with no evidence and no basis in fact.
I don't have absolute certainty but I do know there are countless questions with answers waiting to be found. I like this, it means there is still discoveries to be made. There is still purpose for our species and even if I should play barely the most insignificant part in that journey I am satisfied.
I don't know what happens after I die, evidence would suggest nothing happens. That I am simply to return to the state of non-existence I once emerged from.
If this is the case then I deem it an acceptable state of affairs.
After consideration, it is not something I find myself afraid of.
LOVE the way you answered the questions. I really feel for you since I've had the same experience. And no I asked them the right way. I wanted to be able to tell what kind of people are answering it. Their personality, etc,. I try and take into account many things before forming a theory and it takes even longer to come to a conclusion with so many different possibilities.
I, however am looking into cybernetic organs and/or cryonics.
(September 15, 2012 at 7:50 pm)Faith No More Wrote:Quote:Why do you dislike religion? (or state if you're indifferant with an example of your indifferance)
I don't particularly dislike religion itself, but I dislike what some people do with it.
Quote:How did you come to believe (or not) in your current deity?
I could never find any convincing evidence of one.
Quote:What has been your worst experience with Christians?
About a decade ago, my friend killed himself, and his parents held a Catholic funeral. The priest that ran the ceremony gave a thinly-veiled sermon describing how my friend was now in hell.
Quote:What has been your most pleasant experience with Christians?
Being raised by two of them.
Wow. That's very sad to hear about your friend.
And very inappropriate of the priest.
It's nice to hear you had a pleasant experience with your parents. Mine still don't know about my no faith policy. Do they know you are atheist?
