The bit I forgot.......
sabro said:
....From their responses and from some of the posters on our fair forum, I always wonder what kind of pain causes such caustic bitterness and such an overblown sense of superiority.....
My apologies, Sabro.
My last post, I notice, did not respond completely to your (rhetorical?) question.
I can't speak for the pain you speak of, because I do not feel any particular bitterness or superiority in my Atheism. I cannot, of course speak for others either - they must do that for themslves.
I can only try to answer as to
why I feel myself to be Atheistic, and have felt so for many a long year.
I see no evidence for or of a "God".
Is God loving? He/She/It is supposed to be. Where is the love? Why was the world in such a mess when I was born - with millions being slaughtered most cruelly every year? Where is the love now?
Some may see it and reason for it - I can't. Don't want to debate it. Won't.
Does God "control" our world? If He/She/It does - He/She/It's doing a rotten job. And has done for centuries. Why does He/She/It allow us to be such beasts against each other? What's He/She/It doing? Pulling a beer from the fridge and having a damned good laugh?
Are the testaments "untrue" are they "lies"?
Damned if I know. Who cares? They're all written by men anyway. What did those men believe?
Damned if I know. Damned if I care. Not one of them "proves" to me that there is a God. That's my opinion and all I care. You don't have to agree with me, and I don't want to get into debate about it. I won't. I don't need to "show off" that way - be I Atheist, Christian, Satanist, Communist, anybloodyist.
I'm here because I'm here. I will die because my body and brain will wear out, just like my car, and I will sink into the same black oblivion that I was in before I was born. It didn't bother me then and it won't bother me in a few years from now. I accept that.
But that's just the way I feel. I'm comfortable with it.
If anybody else feels different ... so what?
Should I persuade them to feel differently? Should I be that impertinent? Should I lash dynamite around my waist and walk into the local supermarket ready to punish them? Should I bang on their doors on Saturday morning and issue fliers and a lecture, spoiling their breakfast?
Should I?
We should all - and I mean, worldwide
ALL keep our religious or irreligious beliefs where the ladies often say we should firmly keep our brains ...
... quietly ... in our pants ...!
?W????