(July 11, 2015 at 5:02 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:We are kindred spirits. For the last 30 years, my mother has blamed me for not letting god heal me (I'm legally blind and hearing impaired). When I lived in the vicinity of Word of Faith churches, I've had some crazy experiences with people grabbing my head on the street, "Be healed in the name of Jesus. Satan, you take your hands off this child of god. You have no right to hinder her from receiving her blessing."(July 11, 2015 at 4:54 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: I don't think this will help. There are some theists (probably a small minority) who's brains are so wired that way, they can't grasp the concept of atheism. They genuinely think we're acting in response to a bad childhood, in denial of judgement or some such thing.
Yeah, it's kind of like when people think I'm an atheist because I'm angry at god because of my disability. It's actually the opposite - I used to buy into the tripe that others told me. That my health issues in this life were preparing me for something greater, and all that jazz. I took comfort in it. It helped me cope. I realized I was an atheist because of a dozen and more things not related to my disability in any way that just never added up.
No it wasn't my disability. It was a confluence of things. And yet my disability did allow me to ask questions others were not asking.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
