Ya i use to be very similair to your views so i completely understand your views. I was passionate about my agnosticism. I guess it's cool we live in a country where we are allowed to change our views anytime.
I'd just like to emphasize that it isn't the Bible that encourages thinking illogically, but misguided religious teachers. "Come, let us reason together" comes straight from scripture.
I made my decision for atheism when I was 13. The god hypothesis just did not make sense. And still doesn't.
Interestingly, I went the other direction--also at 13--basically because the universe from nothing and abiogenesis hypotheses didn't make sense. And still don't.
I have a friend that was "born again" 6 months or so ago, watches YouTube videos all day about this shit, the dark planet nibiru, umm, the worlds elite are Satanists, super into the pizza gate thing, a portal to hell at CERN and thinks the pope is the antichrist. Liberal his whole life, now he thinks trump is our savior, he's the only one who isn't a satanist pedophile.
I think it's more fundamental than just the teachers, which is true too. It's the basic idea that we are to believe in something without evidence that can lead to faulty reasoning. But I don't think that's the case for all or even most people. We are far more complex then any quick ascertain by me could do justice.
and this is where we differ. Not on our love for our neighbors, respect for this world or empathy towards the infirm or challenged. I read your posts frequently and agree with a great deal, and what I disagree with is at least logical so I respect your views to which I don't agree with on all topics that pertain to the world we live in.
I don't know why that struck as fucking hilarious. Eating by myself on the patio of a nice Italian restaurant in gyserville CA after a long day at work. Sipping on my wine and when I tead that I laughed out loud like some dolt.
Where did that asshole job description come from? Not sure of how it relates to the thread but it reminds me of some jerk who wrote to Dear Abby some years ago asking what happened to "nice old fashioned girls" because he's proposed to many and they all refuse him when they hear his conditions. Don't remember all but must have virginity certified by physician, cannot have car, cannot have job, he will manage finances, plan vacations, choose friends/social life, he will decide on her clothing/makeup/hair style - a lot like this jerk, which is why I was reminded. Abby, bless her heart, said the "nice old-fashioned girls" he is talking about became extinct in 1920 when women won the right to vote. I have to say, marrying that asshole would be the end of the world as I know it.
