It is not the question that keeps us from uniting, it is the act of free thought for the truthful answer that will unite us. Religion stifles free thought. Faith is a brick wall in the mind, usually built and reinforced in childhood, an unimpenetrable barrier that keeps a person from telling the truth. So when someone is telling us that they feel sorry that we don't have faith then they are saying that they feel sorry that we don't have this mental blockage. It is a delusion.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
Besides, to presuppose that God doesn't exist, without having evidence, is also delusional by your calculations. Who, or what, created the universe and us, then?[/QUOTE]
Come on tell us about the evidence you came up with, we'll analyse it.
No, that is incorrect, I'm not interested in presupposing anything.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
Ah! So your need to analyse is the cross you bear Rheg. The end result of that, is to analyse everything to destruction. Not a happy place. I can live with your atheism ... it doesn't affect me, but what are you so frightened of, that you need to try and destroy my, or anyone elses faith in God? Hmmmmm!
No burden M Swanson. The freedom to think critically is a nice place to be in.
I am frightened M Swanson. You are right about that. I'm frightened of what happens when faith gets in the way of thinking freely or hampering efforts to seek answers to the big questions on reality, health etc. When teachers and parents teach scripture to innocent kids as fact, that frightens me.
Last edited by Rheghead; 24-Feb-13 at 01:35.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
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