(October 2, 2009 at 10:32 am)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: Solarwave,
What I am about to say may be hard to believe but you must accept it to move forward in your understanding. I did not seek atheism, it found me as a side effect of increasing my knowledge of how the world works. I would love to believe but simply cannot. I did not trade God in for freedom and at first my "revelation" bummed me out to the uttermost, but belief is a reaction to knowledge, not something you can control.
Rhizo
So for you there was no motivation at all from other sources, such as being free from the moral code of Christianity?
(October 2, 2009 at 10:57 am)chatpilot Wrote: I started out as a fundamentalist (literalist) believer in God and I was at one time one of those that claimed the inerrancy of the scriptures. My pastor said in church that we should all read the bible in its entirety to get a full view of God's vision. I did so four times and aside from all the inconsistencies I found in the scriptures I was shocked most by God's cruelty. I envisioned the biblical God as a tyrant and slowly but painfully I began to wean myself away from Christianity.
Darn God sending His Son to die for us and keeping us all alive, what an evil person.
Do you believe it would be evil to let us all die right now? From where did our right to life come from?
What if living isn't a neutral act but a good act of mercy and grace by God and being dead is neutral.
Mark Taylor: "Religious conflict will be less a matter of struggles between belief and unbelief than of clashes between believers who make room for doubt and those who do not."
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
