I read the bible, and I'm the owner of a functioning brain.
The question that kept echoing in the back of my mind whilst I was trying to be a xtian: Even if there was a god, what makes this one the one true god?
I had the cognition from a very early age that people who worshiped other gods felt just as passionately about their gods as the xtians felt about their own god. When I sat down to read the bible, sure it would convince me the the xtian god was the one true god, all it did was made me want to fucking hurl. I kept reading it, and out loud, I would exclaim "YEAH RIGHT!".
I had all these facts gathered in my head, and everything I read in that book just sounded to me like made up bullshit that a bunch of ancient dickheads wrote to explain the things they couldn't understand, push their personal political and moral agendas, and control the masses.
I know some seemingly intelligent people who are self-proclaimed xtians. The only thing I can attribute that to, as a professional in the psychological field, is fear. Casually, it's called "The Blankie Complex".
I'm an atheist because I'm smart enough to know religions are all a bunch of made up nonsense, and I am not a fucking baby anymore. I don't need a blankie, I need truth, even if it's unsettling...
The question that kept echoing in the back of my mind whilst I was trying to be a xtian: Even if there was a god, what makes this one the one true god?
I had the cognition from a very early age that people who worshiped other gods felt just as passionately about their gods as the xtians felt about their own god. When I sat down to read the bible, sure it would convince me the the xtian god was the one true god, all it did was made me want to fucking hurl. I kept reading it, and out loud, I would exclaim "YEAH RIGHT!".
I had all these facts gathered in my head, and everything I read in that book just sounded to me like made up bullshit that a bunch of ancient dickheads wrote to explain the things they couldn't understand, push their personal political and moral agendas, and control the masses.
I know some seemingly intelligent people who are self-proclaimed xtians. The only thing I can attribute that to, as a professional in the psychological field, is fear. Casually, it's called "The Blankie Complex".
I'm an atheist because I'm smart enough to know religions are all a bunch of made up nonsense, and I am not a fucking baby anymore. I don't need a blankie, I need truth, even if it's unsettling...
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