brotherlylove Wrote:I am just exploring the subject with you. You mentioned you had searched for God and I wondered about how you searched for Him..and since you mentioned you never checked out Christianity because you had dismissed it as a little kid, I suggested that logically, it bears consideration if you wanted to actually investigate the question of God seriously. I am not sure exactly how one might rule out God in the first place, being that we are finite beings with limited knowledge.
Don't confuse dismissing Christianity with not considering it. I may have concluded it to be false at a young age, but Christianity has been in my face enough that I am fully aware of what it entails. Still, I have dismissed it.
And I haven't ruled out god completely. Being an agnostic atheist, I admit there is a possibility god exists, albeit a very, very tiny one. The thing I have completely ruled out is a personal god that has any stake in human affairs.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell