(June 19, 2013 at 1:11 am)ronedee Wrote: What puzzles me is that atheists can feel; "love" and "happiness", yet they don't ask where it comes from? They can sit and ponder a physical mystery; yet God is not in that realm of thought. They also can take any, and all aspects of religion that is good and toss it out the window. But then expand and inflate any bad they can find in it to mountainous proportions.
Is it possible "love" & "happiness" is from a soul? Is it possible to just ponder God for a while in a quiet moment...and maybe get an answer? Is it possible that religion has done more good than bad over the millenniums for the multitude?
Hell, it's 'possible' that love and happiness are from venus. Hate and war might be from mars. But what is the point in saying so? Does it make it any less mysterious that such things should exist at all? Likewise, saying love comes from a soul just partitions off one portion of ourselves and says all the mystery is in there, the part I'm calling my soul. What information do we have about the mystery by virtue of giving it a name? Well I suppose there is an entire library of speculation on that thing Christianity calls a soul. So I suppose one could think there really is something known about all this but I think that is just trading self honesty for peace of mind. My 2 cents worth, with tax and handling that comes to $150 American.
