(January 3, 2016 at 12:16 am)excitedpenguin Wrote:(December 30, 2015 at 10:07 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: This is so good, it really is. You know, I have mainly atheist friends in my offline life, and one of them said one day recently, that he thought maybe life should be a blend of belief and fact. Belief based on some loose facts and a leap of faith. My fiance is a Christian, but was an atheist for a long time, and he's sort of a ''loose'' Christian, not ultra-practicing, etc. But, even he was like...really? lol There were some wine and spirits involved in this conversation that day, but suffice to say that we all wonder. I think where the danger comes in, is when people dictate to others what to believe. Many Christians are that way. Intuition for me, can't also be yours. You have to find your own, if you so desire to seek it, you know?
Having identified as an atheist at one time, really helped me. The joy I have in believing again, comes also from a time when I didn't believe. And didn't care. It is in that freedom to choose either path, that we find meaning to life, I guess. Neither way on their own seems wholly satisfying, as you put it. I like that a lot.
The more I listen to you, the more you seem like a little spoiled child whose imaginative worldview is protected by grown ups. Take responsibility for a change. It's demeaning to give in to such instincts, as I said before, as a full-blown adult, especially as one who knows better.
This thread isn't for this purpose, it's for atheists to share if they've been theists before and what caused them to abandon those beliefs. Turning it into your own platform to pontificate to me how you are somehow better than me, is falling on deaf ears. What you think of me is irrelevant.
