(August 8, 2013 at 8:09 pm)themonkeyman Wrote: So since I know atheists agnostics deist and theists all know the bible and generally dont bullshit the answer
If there's one thing we tend to have in common here, it's that we can "bullshit the answer" with the best of them. *flashes his badge*
If by unforgivable sin you mean blaspheming against the holy spirit, the answer to that is like many other such questions-- it's fairly open to interpretation. Some hardcore literalist types will probably tell you that mouthing the words is enough to damn you, because it probably came from the heart. Others would explain that the sin as described in the Bible entailed a deliberate and malicious attempt to misrepresent the holy spirit in order to call Jesus' authority into question, and that what you described doesn't seem to be anything like that.
I think that for those who leave god and religion behind, there are going to be a few mental/psychological land mines that you have to either set off or disarm. Something as deeply spiritual and meaningful as religious belief isn't shaken off all at once and not without some scarring. You will probably have a few of these episodes where some entrenched belief keeps digging at you until you realize that it's nonsense. And with each of those episodes that you overcome, you feel a bit more free.
It's a process. It gets better with time.
"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
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