(June 12, 2010 at 12:08 am)tackattack Wrote: Resentment, by the definition we're using, is a nagging unfulfillment. You were completely satisfied with religion before you left it?
Then you're positively asserting that belief in God (any God) is either self/other coersion and a fixed belief that is either false or derived from deception. I'll bite, cite your proof then because that's not my view of God.
You are implying that if one is completely satisfied or “fulfilled” with religion, one has no “resentment” and can therefore “hear” god. To an atheist, this simply means that you are fully sold on the concept, and that you are locked in the delusion.
ALL belief in ANY god is coerced (your term). Absolutely no one “finds” religion without being introduced to it by someone else, and the vast majority of the time the introduction is made by one’s parents. You were indoctrinated as a child, and told what to believe by people in authority. The fact that you are now “fulfilled” is evidence that you have convinced yourself that what you were taught is real. Since you are sold on the Christian religion, you likely believe that all other religions are either false or derived from deception. There’s your proof.
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