RE: do religious people really believe?
February 24, 2013 at 9:36 pm
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2013 at 9:37 pm by paulpablo.)
apophenia, im not ignoring human nature, i know theists are behaving out of human nature when they cry because children die or they hoard money and so on. And as an atheist i dont act hypocritical by behaving well, i just do it because it either feels good or it benefits me, apart from when im not behaving well that is.
Im hypocritical as an atheist in other ways, the other day i prayed to my mp3 player to help me find it, i actually said out loud "please mp3 player be around here somewhere" but this is again just my nature because ive been raised in a culture where people do pray.
My point is everyday i do things against my animal nature because of the belief i have in things.
i believe that eating veg and eggs are good for me but id much rather stuff my face with mcdonalds, but i never do because of my beliefs which are way stronger than my animal instincts to stuff my face with fat.
Theres countless things i do because of my beliefs that outweigh my animal instincts, i dont grab random girls in the street and fuck them, i dont kill my bosses, i work, i go to the gym, i dont take drugs or smoke, i sometimes use condoms.
I do these things for relatively unimportant causes in comparison to the infinitely important cause of the well being of the soul which supposedly exists , because of fitness or because i dont want to be arrested or cause distress to the female population by grabbing them and fucking them, all relatively unimportant puroposes in comparison to the everlasting life and soul that theists believe in, again if i REALLY REALLY REALLY believed in a heaven and a soul i would give away most my money, id never bother to masterbate, id be jelous of a child with incurable cancer because they would be getting to paradise before me but then id have to pray to god to forgive me for that because you arent allowed to be jelous if i remember right, id never be sad at a funeral, use gods name in vain and so on if there was something of everlasting important at stake, its logical that it just wouldnt be worth it, yet no one but people who are labeled as maniacs behave this way,
who would feel lucky and that god wanted them to join them that little bit sooner than usual if they had cancer or HIV? religious or unreligious how many people think "YES! im on my way god" when getting a terminal illness.
Im hypocritical as an atheist in other ways, the other day i prayed to my mp3 player to help me find it, i actually said out loud "please mp3 player be around here somewhere" but this is again just my nature because ive been raised in a culture where people do pray.
My point is everyday i do things against my animal nature because of the belief i have in things.
i believe that eating veg and eggs are good for me but id much rather stuff my face with mcdonalds, but i never do because of my beliefs which are way stronger than my animal instincts to stuff my face with fat.
Theres countless things i do because of my beliefs that outweigh my animal instincts, i dont grab random girls in the street and fuck them, i dont kill my bosses, i work, i go to the gym, i dont take drugs or smoke, i sometimes use condoms.
I do these things for relatively unimportant causes in comparison to the infinitely important cause of the well being of the soul which supposedly exists , because of fitness or because i dont want to be arrested or cause distress to the female population by grabbing them and fucking them, all relatively unimportant puroposes in comparison to the everlasting life and soul that theists believe in, again if i REALLY REALLY REALLY believed in a heaven and a soul i would give away most my money, id never bother to masterbate, id be jelous of a child with incurable cancer because they would be getting to paradise before me but then id have to pray to god to forgive me for that because you arent allowed to be jelous if i remember right, id never be sad at a funeral, use gods name in vain and so on if there was something of everlasting important at stake, its logical that it just wouldnt be worth it, yet no one but people who are labeled as maniacs behave this way,
who would feel lucky and that god wanted them to join them that little bit sooner than usual if they had cancer or HIV? religious or unreligious how many people think "YES! im on my way god" when getting a terminal illness.
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