I liked your post. I would like to pick your brain more on your atheism sometime. It's a fairly freeing perspective when I find myself in it. As to respecting the need for a god, for me, it's what that need is....... Usually I am just respecting their right to live how they choose. But I also think part of me condemns the fear and confusion that drives many people to believe, and I think I often even pity them. Part of me wants to wipe that kind of metaphysical sentimentality out of existence, frankly.
I am not saying I do not accept the possibility of deity in the specific manner that christians present him, however. I just think it is silly to go about playing makebelieve and not call it makebelieve.
Besides there is something beautiful about being temporary and pointless.
Very interesting, though I belive more or less exactly the opposite. What you have described sounds very much like religion to me and very little like faith. Guilt, fear and confusion have no place there, and to me at least there is a world of difference, in modivation and in truth. Anyway, I greatly respect your honesty, would that more people spoke plainly what they belived, and put enough thought into it to know. I'd love to talk to you about it some time.
i completely agree with your assessment and wholly admit that the latter part of my post was more a reference to the stereotypically blind-faith followers i encounter on a daily basis. i certainly do not classify you among them and fully recognize that you'd never fit into those stereotypes. sorry i haven't returned your email yet. i'm a schmuck. i'll get to it. love, a
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As to respecting the need for a god, for me, it's what that need is.......
Usually I am just respecting their right to live how they choose. But I also think part of me condemns the fear and confusion that drives many people to believe, and I think I often even pity them.
Part of me wants to wipe that kind of metaphysical sentimentality out of existence, frankly.
I am not saying I do not accept the possibility of deity in the specific manner that christians present him, however. I just think it is silly to go about playing makebelieve and not call it makebelieve.
Besides there is something beautiful about being temporary and pointless.
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-Paul
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i certainly do not classify you among them and fully recognize that you'd never fit into those stereotypes.
sorry i haven't returned your email yet. i'm a schmuck. i'll get to it.
love,
a
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Let me know how peanut buttering all those kids went. Sounds like a great deal of fun :-)
-Paul
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