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What if you're like me and went from devoutly religious to devoutly atheist after taking the time to educate yourself the best way you knew how? Obviously I was open-minded or I would still be religious. And obviously I wouldn't still be reading about religion to learn about it if I was just going to say it was stupid in a blanket statement.Originally Posted by 23ska909red02
Galvelocity:
23ska909red02:
These arguments go nowhere because of two things: stubbornness and narrow-mindedness.
For the record, I mean from any and all sides.
People ask questions already believing what they want to believe, and people answer questions with no intention of learning anything new from the person they're trying to 'fix' or 'convert'.
Go to a math tutor thoroughly convinced that 2+ 2 = filet mignon and carry with you a complete unwillingness to understand how that perspective is wrong, and you'll get as far with him as you would anyone else asking questions about God with an already established, thorough conviction that they are completely unwilling to have shaken or compromised.
My closest friend right now fits that description. Got a ton of respect for dude.
I don't call myself a Christian, because I don't want the negative stigma associated with today's Christians attached to me, but I do believe there is a God, and I try to live according to that belief. I wasn't raised according to the way I believe, and I can definitely respect anyone who has developed their own belief system, even if the belief system they subscribe to is completely different than mine.
Yeah I like the idea of customized religion. Take the aspects of religion you like and apply them to your life as you choose instead of beingmandated to do a thousand different things. You do what you think makes you a better person who is happier in this life.
Although by doing so, you are worsening everyone's odds of choosing the correct religion to get you into heaven byadding a new one into the betting pool