(June 30, 2014 at 11:09 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(June 30, 2014 at 10:20 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: It started when I was twelve, and lived through the revolution in Iran. That brought to my mind the Problem of Evil. I kept faith for a couple of years afterwards, again out of fear, but the questions kept mounting and I couldn't reconcile what I'd been told about God with what I'd seen around me. On seeking answers by reading Scripture, I started rereading the Bible, and that was enough -- once my fears had subsided.
Yeah, reading scripture is the road to atheism. It's why I'm always so surprise that Christians keep suggesting it. I think it's because they haven't really read the Bible themselves.
To be fair, it was only when I read it with the then-recent experiences in mind that I saw how fatuous it was that a Good God could not only condone, not only perpetrate, but actually create the evil that he tells us to resist.
Of course, my immature brain couldn't formulate the thought in that concise and meaningful manner, but I goddamned well knew it in my bones. I've always had a pretty good Bullshit Detector.
