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[OnceUponAChristian]

Fear has very very little to do with my own faith. I have never spent much time or energy worrying about death, whether I should or not.

My spiritual motivation seems more driven by fascination -- which is really no better.

That claim sounds like a quote -- but it sounds weak when you don't back it up with any data or references.... why bother saying it unless you would like to persuade someone toward this direction of thinking? Instead, it just sounds like an insult of our entire lives and faith. And that of every other religion on earth. It carries no weight.

What I suspect you are trying to get across, is that people are not seeing how harmful their words are when they speak in defense of their religion.

Hardly. The likelihood that our egos are annihilated with the destruction of the brain/body is so great that claiming otherwise is nothing else but wishful thinking. Non-existence is a terrifying thought to humans as all we know is existence. All religions make some claim to an afterlife, never backed up by good evidence however. Perhaps you are religious for other reasons but as Bertrand Rusell said, most are for the reasons mentioned; ah, I forgot one: false certainty.

 

[OnceUponAChristian]

Fear has very very little to do with my own faith. I have never spent much time or energy worrying about death, whether I should or not.

My spiritual motivation seems more driven by fascination -- which is really no better.

That claim sounds like a quote -- but it sounds weak when you don't back it up with any data or references.... why bother saying it unless you would like to persuade someone toward this direction of thinking? Instead, it just sounds like an insult of our entire lives and faith. And that of every other religion on earth. It carries no weight.

What I suspect you are trying to get across, is that people are not seeing how harmful their words are when they speak in defense of their religion.

Oh yeah, mine own words, not a quote...here are some quotes I like though:

"My view is that atheistic existentialism is the high road where ultimately morality is an aesthetic about the world we choose to live in given existential abandonment and radical free will. There is no inherited and meaningful context and self-deception about such is the low road.The most profound thing is to be good simply because one chooses to do so - not for any received truth or dictate. [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth] primative religion. This is the new religion. We are insignificant in a universe of collapsing stars and time parameters that we can't even comprehend, but to look that squarely in the face and transcend ourselves by the way we apply our freedom is to become an adult species - and if it all passes and nobody ever knew we did it then more is the profundity."
-MIT

"I believe that when I die I shall rot, and that nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the traditional indoor warmth of humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own."
-Bertrand Russell

"If we look back at the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them; and that custom, respect and tyranny support them, in order to make the blindness of man serve their own interest. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them."
-Baron D'Holbach

 

[heron]

Then why exactly are you drawn to a site that focuses on religion? I feel as though you have decided that your view of life is so much more superior to the estimated 97.5 percent of the world's population that holds to their chosen faiths.

Why enter a zone of devout people, in order to insult their way of thinking? Do you also toilet-paper monasteries, and shoot spitwads at hari krishna devotees?

Many of us have written the theses, analyzed the philosophies, researched comparative religions. Your theory is nothing new, because we have written school papers on the topic -- but it is most certainly intolerant an unproductive.

 

[MrsHolwager]

This particular part of cf is called Questions by Non-christians in case u have forgotten. Not to be rude, but christians usually come to this section to help answer questions from non-believers such as your self. And I might also add that most christians dont look at the scientific side of whether god does or doesnt exsist. When you join this forum there are a set of rules and boundaries which you agree to in the bigging. If you cant follow them, the rules clearly state you will be removed, so you can't really be upset because you were informed of this before hand.

 

[Key]

Oh yeah, mine own words, not a quote...here are some quotes I like though:

Ah yes.. Good for the sake of being good, how truly naive to believe such is a thing of attainment.

Yes, all those quites sound so nice, but, when you take the time to look at the reality of humanity, with or without religion, they are a faulted thing, and their own self awareness is their destruction and downfall, had they been not of such ability to view self as they do, they might one day attain the true liberty and learn the meaning of true love, to as high a scale as our dogs understand it.

Till that day, Humans and their visions of "awareness "are only deluding their minds, to believe that Human can overcome their obsession with self.

God Bless

Key.

 

[MethodMan]

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