I enjoyed life when I was a believer just as much as I do now. I've always been a happy person. I didn't drift away from religion because I felt bad or sought something better or anything like that. I drifted from it, realized that I didn't believe, and continued to be the happy person I've always been. I feel a bit more free and that makes me a bit happier still, but that's about it.
It might not be an issue with being a theist or not. It might be an issue with being batshit insane or not. Can't say-- never been miserable.
It might not be an issue with being a theist or not. It might be an issue with being batshit insane or not. Can't say-- never been miserable.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
