(December 27, 2014 at 10:55 am)strawdawg Wrote: At the moment it's chic to be atheist. Supposedly you're more intelligent if you're atheist, after all Einstein and Sagan were atheist. It's a fad and it won't last.
A clear case of monkey see monkey do.
This is dumb.
I'm not an atheist because it's a fad, or because I'm in my rebellious phase, or any other weak rationalization you want to tell yourself. I've been an atheist for almost my entire life, even as a child. I was one of those people that wanted to believe in a god, but no matter how I tried to twist the idea and stories around in my head, they never made sense.
Like I said in my intro post, I cried as a young boy when I was told I was baptized because it felt like a gross violation of my own liberty. I felt that if I had found some religion that made sense to me, that I should be the one to make the decision to partake in their rituals. I was never convinced that Catholicism was the answer precisely because there were so many other religions on the planet. Even as a 4-5 year old, I didn't buy into it. "Why are there so many other religions? Why does god let bad things happen to good people? What kind of a divine plan revolves around people suffering? What if none of the religions are right?"
Religion doesn't make sense to me on a fundamental level. It's so glaringly obvious that it stems from ancient peoples' psychological need to explain life, death, and the pre-science world around them, that I can't understand why modern people today would buy into it. Might as well treat the Illiad with the same reverence.
A fad... LMFAO. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
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