(November 5, 2013 at 5:09 pm)Aral Gamelon Wrote: My feelings step along the same line, I was never even aware of the option to not believe until I was in middle school.
It wasn't until high school for me (I deconverted almost instantly after that). And it wasn't like my parents were deliberately hiding anything from me either; I just never really thought about religion until then.
(November 5, 2013 at 11:03 am)cato123 Wrote: Unfortunately many thiests choose option D...That's basically what I did. Until I realized how intellectually dishonest it was...
D) Invent fanciful and absurd excuses to dismiss divine moral abuses to keep the enjoyable parts of the fantasy intact.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.