RE: If you were ever a theist...
January 4, 2016 at 9:15 pm
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2016 at 9:17 pm by MJ the Skeptical.)
(December 30, 2015 at 10:17 am)Deidre32 Wrote: If you were ever a theist/believer, what led you to no longer believe? Not looking to preach, that’s not my thing and it’s against rules anyway, but just curious. I remember my own journey over the past few years with it all, and just thought it’d be interesting to hear your ‘stories’ if you were once believers before identifying as an atheist.
This might be blunt, but, I noticed your status states, "Back to Christianity" when you should just put, "Back to my Childhood Indoctrination." As it would be a more apt description
I digress.
Never been a believer of any religion, but for a thinking exercise I will take up positions I don't hold and play devil's advocate just for fun, including religion debates just to see how good I am at arguing that position. However with religion, I never take anything away from it, no perspective, no new realizations that other positions i don't hold like taking on other political ideas or something similar that makes you have some introspection. All the religious arguments just pander to wishful thinking, people too afraid to realize their place in the cosmos so they make up things to feel better. What brought me back to reality after arguing the corollary of my position (atheism) was that I don't want to participate in wishful thinking or baseless beliefs without some empirical evidence and logical reasoning.
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.
