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 Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:34 pm
It's more disbelief. I don't think gods exist, they're just a very human construct.
I think the problem is alot of people use circular reasoning. The human mind tries to find meaning and patterns in everything, even if there are none.
Much of our technology is based on what we see in nature. But we think about it backwards: we look around at what we made, then look at nature, and say "well we made all this, so someone like us MUST have made nature." It doesn't occur to us that nature just is, and we've only applied meaning to it after the fact. We invented the concept of order as much as we invented the concept of time.
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Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:46 pm
for me it's simple. my belief is that no matter what you think you know for certain, you could be completely wrong. even the concepts of sense ad logic re in question. i believe this, because i am schitzophrenic. i hav come to the realization, after serious severe halluscinations, that i can nvr be certain what is and isn't real. and then i thought, if i can't be certain what is and isn't real how can anyone else?
as for why i worship the deities i do and believe that they are real... well, i have had personal interactions with them, and i just feel that they are real. i believe it because i have no reason not to.
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Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:59 pm
Haha. Oh.
My mom's family was Protestant. (Just Protestant, no specific denomination. I guess it's a DC metro thing or just a family quirk.)
My dad's family was Catholic.
As you can imagine, there was never any hope of either of my parents converting me and I got to make up my own mind what I thought about it all. Honestly, it's easier looking at the big picture when your families are too busy arguing semantics. I've essentially been atheist since I realized this at eight years old.
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