(February 23, 2014 at 9:40 pm)Rahul Wrote:(February 23, 2014 at 9:32 pm)discipulus Wrote: Who knows, one day, you may renounce your atheism and come back to the fold as the prodigal son returned to his father after he came to his senses.
I hope not. Developing dementia when I get older is one of my greatest fears.
Not to mention that since atheism is the rejection of theism, renouncing it makes no sense. One can only adopt an extra layer of belief to become a theist. It takes more work, adopting yet another layer, to proceed - or descend - to xtianity.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
