Can't believe I didn't catch this thread before now. Anyway, my "thought processes" run similar to those already expressed. I've never been brought up to be superstitious, or if there were any such influences I certainly have no memory of them. For the same reasons I don't feel obliged to knock on wood, bless a person for sneezing, or cross my my fingers - except perhaps ironically - so I feel no obligation to subscribing to any god or divine being of similar distinction. The sheer amount of logical and linguistic leapfrogging in misguided attempts to define such beings into existence at best, or to entrap me into conceding the point at worst, only serves to push me further away from entertaining this stuff.
Then there's all the socio-political baggage that comes with theocentric systems, such as the world suffered during the Dark Ages, plus all that I've learned about how and why the more popular holy books were put together, and the resulting soufflé signs up to an atheist forum under the name of Stimbo.
Then there's all the socio-political baggage that comes with theocentric systems, such as the world suffered during the Dark Ages, plus all that I've learned about how and why the more popular holy books were put together, and the resulting soufflé signs up to an atheist forum under the name of Stimbo.
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.'
