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[fat_heidi]

Christianity is not an intellectual suicide. seriously.

many atheists seem to say, "well, believe in what you want to believe, and i'll believe in whatever i want," or "i have no morals so don't bother me." they deny that there exists an absolute moral truth. so if i apply their statement into history or society today, then because hitler believed

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[noin]

While not an atheist, I have no religion. I am non-denominational and while I do have a belief that something must exist, I don't hold my faith within the confines of a book or a set fixture of rules. Morals do exist, there is a right and a wrong to an extent there is black and white, but on a level everyone does have their own beliefs that they should live by. Because I am not truly Christian, do not attend church regularly, I do not believe this condems me to hell

hey, thanks! :)

[fat_heidi]

thanks for your thoughts! seriously. i really appreciate them. just on a side note, i don't understand how atheists say that they don't believe in anything, like God. because by the fact that they say, 'i dont believe in anything,' actually means that they believe in something. and also your point about religion, i agree that religion was created by man and it has definite flaws. hinduism, mormonism, buddhism, etc all have flaws. and i'm not trying to force my beliefs on you, but Christianity is not a religion. a religion is something that you believe in, right? anything factual is not believed, it's known. in the same way, no one would say, 'i believe that's a computer.' it's more like, 'i know that's a computer,' because computer is there, it's tangible, it's a fact. so similarly, i know that Jesus is alive and He exists (and i say this in present tense because i also know that He's alpha omega, which is the beginning and the end -- omnipresent). so i see Christianity as relationship with God, not a religion. anyway, that carried on

Re: hey, thanks! :)

[noin]

In the short amount of time we've friended each other on livejournal, I have come to realize that you are a very open-minded and considerate person, which you do not know just how much I appreciate. So I in turn thank you for your response. ^___^

[truthnofiction]

I admire and respect your views, although I rarely respect those of any atheist. Because I believe that most people that label themselves as atheist are really just trying to label themselves as 'Not Christian,' and a I think that's sort of a cry for originality... that's not original, and, worst of all, not ture

[_sea_ghost]

wow, you updated.

[fat_heidi]

hahah i know. i never really know what to write in here about..

[finnygan]

I respectfully disagree. I think that we do all have a common set of morals, but I don't think there's anything transcendental about them, in any way. I don't believe in God, therefore, in my view, they can't come from God. Nor are they the product of some "morals module" in the brain, as some would claim. I think that they come from the single cognitive ability of "theory of mind". People (without cognitive disabilities) develop, in their earliest childhood, an understanding of something similar to oneself being "in there" in other people, and I think that it is this cognitive ability that enables us to do this thing we call morals (as well as communicate, etc. etc.). The fact that people all over the world, coming from a variety of different cultures and/or religions, all seem to have roughly the same ideas of what is good and what is bad would seem to support this view.

While I respect and admire the fact that some people choose to believe in God, I don't think it's the only way of explaining why people have morals or act morally.