(August 30, 2013 at 5:37 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: I feel embarrassed that I used to be a christian. I also I feel jealous for those that were never in a faith. Is there anyone else that feels this way?
I only regret that I didn't come to my senses earlier. The particular brand of Christianity I was raised with (JWs) wound up working in my favor seeing as we grew up in a very bad area, and if we'd had a less fundamentalist-led upbringing we probably would have integrated well into our environment. And that environment wasn't conducive to a happy life, IMO.
But at some point it was no longer necessary to remain ignorant, and I hung on for many years beyond that point. It was not entirely a waste, and I'm pretty happy with how things have turned out. But even a ten-year head start would've been useful.
"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
