Did you grow up with a childish view of GOD being like Santa Claus?
A friendly old guy with a white beard.
Or did you reach puberty & not want restrictions on sexuality?
Such as fornication, homosexuality & adultery.
Pilot
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I was never raised with the childish view of God. I was raised instead to believe that there is a divine connection between everything in the universe. In my home we called that God. Imagine my surprise as I went to school, and found kids talking about a guy with a long white beard who lived in the sky.
I do not believe in the God of the bible, or the God of the Koran. I believe Gods are simply metaphors for that which transcends all levels of human intellectual thought or comprehension.
Satsuki
"Did you grow up with a childish view of GOD being like Santa Claus?
A friendly old guy with a white beard."
Key words "grow up" and "childish". Children are allowed to have childish views because they're children. And yes, that's exactly what I thought.
And then I "grew up" and realized God doesn't make sense at all. I don't feel good lying to myself that there is a god, I feel like a fool.
"Or did you reach puberty & not want restrictions on sexuality?
Such as fornication, homosexuality & adultery."
I reached puberty and nothing changed at all. I'm asexual. That means I am incapable of having sexual feelings. What now?
Anonymous
Like the others. No evidence. Sound crazy. Soon we will all look back at how ridiculous it is. Like the greek gods and godesses. There stories are completely outrageous. Swallowing babies. Spliting people in half.
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The only way primitive religion exists today is through the child abuse of forcing it into very, very young children but thanks to better education and growing intellects so many teens are able to discover the truth, throw off the indoctrination and step into the real world!
The bible is what is called "Faction" A fictional story set in a factual time and place. Thus the time, place and real historical characters are all correct but the fictional characters and stories are not!
There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!
There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!
He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?
Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!
Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!
At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!
The first person to provide a shred of verifiable evidence for God will become world famous and mega rich! Ain't happened yet and it never will!
So how does this primitive belief in a god survive? The answer is simple and very down to Earth
Acceptance of a supernatural claim tends to promote cooperative social relationships. This communication demonstrates a willingness to accept, without skepticism, the influence of the speaker in a way similar to a child's acceptance of the influence of a parent. By encouraging this kind of behavior where the most intense social relationships occur it facilitates the lack of skepticism and deters more open minded thinking.
They are christian, Muslim or the other religions depending where they were born simply because they were indoctrinated by their parents as very young children. They will go on to indoctrinate their own children and those will go on to indoctrinate their grandchildren!
Atheists have the intellect to see through the conditioning and escape into the real world!
Agnostics have the intellect to see through the conditioning but lack the courage to throw of the conditioning entirely.
Sadly Christians, muslims and others are still held firmly prisoner by the self perpetuating brainwashing!
Archer
You are not interested in an answer as you are posting "your" ignorant perceptions not those of any Atheist. I am quite sure that you have found that theism has stemmed all fornication, homosexuality, pedophilia and adultery with in your beliefs has it not.
One should clean their own back yard before pointing into that of another oh judgmental "want to be" christian.
Think about it!