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Zonie63 -> RE: What do the atheists get right? (5/1/2014 9:45:43 AM)
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ORIGINAL: chatterbox24
Thank you for answering, somewhat[:D]
True. Could be right, could be wrong, but basically its a leap of faith, which is a bit scarey. If you believe you are being lead in the right direction and act on it, it also can be very beneficial. And Ben isn't talking to me either[:D] Which is fine. To be expected.[sm=rofl.gif] puney protestant.
I'm not sure if anyone is "led" in any particular direction. I was originally baptized and raised Catholic myself, although that may have been an accident of birth more than anything else. I suppose I could have been born somewhere else on the planet and raised in some other religion. My father converted to Catholicism when he married my mother, but most of his family was Protestant. Neither of them actually remained Catholics, though. My mother's parents were real devout, however (although my grandmother also converted when she married my grandmother, as her family was also Protestant).
As for me, my parents stopped going to church after they were divorced, although my brother and I continued going for a few years with our grandparents, but that didn't last. If anything, I was probably being led away from the church, although not from religion entirely. My mother became a Hindu, and seemed rather bitter about the Catholic church, especially her 12 years of Catholic schooling that she was forced to endure. For this reason, I didn't have to go to Catholic school. My father eventually found himself at home in a Methodist church, but I didn't see that I was being led to any particular religion. I went through various phases of studying different religions and religious texts, but in the end, they all just seemed like elaborate "guesses" to me.
Along the way, I've encountered a few self-proclaimed "messiahs" and one guy who deciphered a mathematical code to the Quran, in which he considered a miraculous proof of its divine origins. However, he ended up murdered by some other Muslim sect who thought he was guilty of heretical teachings. And so it goes...
The only thing that seems evident in what I've seen is that nobody really knows if any of this stuff is really true or not. All anyone can do is speculate and guess.
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