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| packmule | Mar 21 2009, 09:49 PM |
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The wording of that particular sentence IMO could have been interpreted by Sayf as more of a demand rather than a request. For that reason I included the "reminder". I don't talk very often about religion in general. I have always believed that every person's religious faith, or lack of faith(atheism), should be respected. For me that will never change. I am agnostic. I am open to the possibility of a God or some kind of being who is behind our world. I do not subscribe to any particular faith and never really have. I was compelled to attend church(Methodist) while growing up as a youngster and then as a teenager. As a young adult(while in college) I would attend church service with my parents out of respect for them because they were both Christians and only for that reason. I have an acquaintance who is ardently Christian. He wasn't a long time ago but had some sort of epiphany or religious "experience". When I have talked with him he constantly uses bible scriptures or other faith based analogies. This is one reason why I rarely talk with him anymore. I have always been a person who believes in science and in things I can see, feel and touch. To believe in the existence of something unseen has proven for me very difficult, if not impossible. I've been told to try reading the bible. I have tried and have failed to comprehend most of what I read. I have been told to pray. Okay, but to who? How effective can prayer be when the person(or thing) you're praying to is someone(or something) you don't really believe exists? I've challenged my Christian acquaintance to show me hard evidence that the bible is based on actual events and people. He hasn't, thus far. I'll say this: if God does exist then he is IMO an absentee landlord where humanity is concerned. If he's got a problem with me saying that then he'll obviously have an opportunity to whip my ass because I said it after I'm dead. There are those who say God doesn't exist, that we are organic beings with a finite existence. When we die that's it. We're done. The thought that this is true is, I admit, somewhat depressing, that feeling amplified by the facets of my own life that, taken as a whole, leave me feeling only disdain, sadness, regret, disappointment and even disgust. In the end the most honest thing I can about God is that, while in my heart I hope he exists...my mind tells me he probably doesn't. |
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