(March 28, 2014 at 4:31 pm)KUSA Wrote: It is not my intention to offend anyone suffering from depression so please don't get offended. My heart pours out to you if you suffer from it.I've always been a happy person, even during trying times in my life. I was a happy theist, and I am a happy atheist. I think that the "happy" part defines the person I am more than the "theist" did or the "atheist" does.
I just seems very odd to me that so many Atheists are depressed. When I officially quit believing I felt better.
I know that I am in control of me and not some god.
I am a happy Atheist. Let me know if you are too.
"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