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After recently dealing with someone who keeps telling me to see THE TRUTH or I'm going to HELL - I have come to some realizations. I think the reason that I think about my beliefs so much is the same reason that many "believers" think about their beliefs so much - because we are constantly being challenged. It's important for me to know what I believe and to be comfortable in what I believe. Just because I'm not religious does not mean that I don't have strong feelings about the things that I believe in. And the more people try to force their beliefs down my throat - the more I think about my own beliefs - and the more I realize why I believe what I believe. The more I know how I feel about things, the more peaceful and at ease I am with my own heart.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, every last bit. We can learn about our own beliefs and ourselves from others we disagree/agree with. Since we are surrounded by religious culture, for me, to get a sense that there are others are out there who question the establishment of religion is refreshing.
I suspect you have it backwards. It is not that I have any great care about a belief structure. What I do care about is my right to disbelieve.
Exactly.
I care and stand firmly for my right against religion. I have personally been socially ostracized by a few Baptists in my east Asheville community for being an atheist (as if I care...)
Dang,!!!!!, I've never figured out why christians care so much about their religion, much less, how they could ever believe all that stuff.
Really scary when you see how passionately they defend the really outrageous concepts, not that the concept of a god isn't, but stuff that common sense complete discounts, such as 5+ miles of rain in 40 days, stopping the sun, even if it is only made of crystal.
I personally don't care about my being atheist..it's discussed here on this forum so it may seem like that's all I talk about if you read only this ...but I go days and days not even thinking about it all..spent years figuring it out, I know where I stand and who I am.
No - Hitler was not a christian - True Christians despise these sorts of organizaitons that call themselves christians but are not
Ah yes, the old dodge about what is a "TRUE" christian, this is part of the problem, even the christians have difficulty deciding who they should hate most, the non-believers, or, those who don't believe CORRECTLY!!!
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We can learn about our own beliefs and ourselves from others we disagree/agree with. Since we are surrounded by religious culture, for me, to get a sense that there are others are out there who question the establishment of religion is refreshing.
