... surrender yourself to Him!', and finally, I decided that I was my own person. If there was a God out there and he put me here, then I am grateful, yes, but that does not mean that I am going to submit ...
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Ge Ph
(Love Thy Neighbour/Love Thy Neighbour)
... (not that there 's anything wrong with them) but ... atleast agnostics don't try to persuade everyone else into beleiving what they beleive. I am sorry for any missed feeling I may have caused and regret ...
... often countered with, "Well there is evil because god wants us to figure out how to be all loving and kind. He doesn't want to just give us the answers." Fine. But if he is all powerful, why doesn't he ...
... Also, there were things about comparative religions which showed me the human origins of religion: the similarities between Hinduism before the Bhagavad-Gita and Judaism before Jesus, how both traditions ...
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Myles, Perth
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
I have never been afraid of the dark from about 12 years old onwards. I don't live in a cave and there fore I am not afraid of what lies beyond my cave in the dark. Perhaps it could be put in another way. ...
... of the masses!" It's the system that the world has developed to control humans. Not that this is a bad thing as there are some redeeming values to religion that do make it worthwhile. Religion does meet ...
... either caused or made more severe by religious faith. In conclusion, I don't believe in gods because there is no evidence and has never been any evidence for them. The story of religion is a story of ignorance, ...
... me. I already lost all my grandparents and my puppy was poisoned by some crazy neighbor. So there 's nothing that can make me change my mind unless god really exists and decides to pay me a visit which ...
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Phil, Watford
(Atheism in Real Life.../Atheism in Real Life...)
... are supposed to blindly do as he has bidden, why else would young men and women strap bombs to their own bodies and detonate the in crowded places. Then there are the dietary requirements, fish on ...
... It occurred to me that I could not remember ever having met someone who was, as far as I could tell, non-Christian. But I knew there were other faiths in the world and I knew those believers were every ...
... The people that left that oppression and thus began the founding of the United States left there to escape the government controlling their church and religious choices. Today I believe we've seen too ...
I grew up in a family that was not religious. My mother paid some lip service to the Luthere n Church, but nothing serious. My father came from Sweden and did not atend church at all as I remember. I guess ...
... folks. Matthew 7:7 "Ask & it will be given to you" - I guess God was busy. There is much more, and I haven't touched science, the textual problems of the bible etc. But, I will sum it up with this quote ...
... a form of temporal lobe epilepsy. I.e. abnormal electrical discharges in the temporal lobes of the brain. I find this very plausible since there are so many of us who do not suffer from it at all or grow ...
... and misrepresentation of facts rather than knowledge. These two things, intolerance and lies, have more than anything shown me that religion is evil. There probably are no gods, but if there are they are ...
... win?" I don't remember her answer, but I knew in that moment that there was no battle, there was no god, and that I should never, ever trust adults more than my own ability to reason. I was forced to go ...
... impressed. At 22, I wrote a graduation thesis on Harold Pinter and The Theater of the Absurd. There after I was definitely an atheist, however I didn't make an issue out of it. I was busy raising ...
... tries to live as he said. He said some good things, but there were comparable non-Christian thinkers before or contemporary to him. Another problem is that it seems to me he thought the world was about ...
I don’t believe that there are gods because there is so little proof besides the words of scripture. I have always found science and the theory of Evolution fascinating, and recently grown quite fond ...
... believe in gods because....there 's no evidence of course. However, the thing that made me realise in the first place what evidence was and why it was required was the dismissive-of-questions and accepting-of-bullshit ...
