(May 15, 2015 at 11:09 pm)Aroura Wrote: ...
As an adult, I look back and think how childish so much of that belief system really is. ...
I know the feeling. I almost start to feel ill if I think about it too much, that I really believed the nonsense that I believed. To be thoroughly indoctrinated as a child gives one a kind of understanding for how people get sucked into such nonsense, but I really wish I were one of those atheists who had no clue about it. So much wasted time and effort thinking about all that ridiculous nonsense! It makes one wonder what one would have done if one had not been raised to believe fairy tales.
So much of it is so bizarre and crazy, but when raised to believe it, it did not all seem that way at the time. Even basic points, like why did God insist that he become a man and then be killed in order to forgive people? Why not just forgive them? It is just so crazy, it boggles the mind. And yet it is what millions of people believe, or claim to believe, and they don't seem to think it is a crazy thing. It is very disturbing to think that one ever believed such rubbish, and very disturbing that many people still believe such rubbish.
Back to the questions.
Did you attend one of those cool, magnificent (from an architectural standpoint) churches, or one of the more modern ones? And did the church have great music, with a glorious pipe organ? Or was it more like just some nun strumming on a guitar? And do you think any of these things had an influence on how long you stayed in the church?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
