I Am Not Religious
Godless.
I am a godless being; always have been. Its not so much of a belief or even disbelief... its more a way of seeing the world. A way of percieving reality.
It can not be blamed on my parents. My father was an athiest up and until the age of forty; after which he found Christ. I always saw my father as a wise and intelligent person - this all changed the day he converted to Christianity. My mother was a baptist and educated us in religion up and until the day she lost her sanity. It seems there has always been a close link between religion and mental illness. The mentally ill are more prone to look for answers in religion than the mentally stable.
I, on the other hand, have been an athiest all my life. I never subscribed to a religion and never chose a belief system. I resolved to draw my own conclusions on all the difficult questions in life. It was not stubborness or even lack of knowledge on theology that stopped me from going down that path. It was the concept of it all... it has always sounded absurd to me to say the least. The concept of an omnipotent and benevolent god just did not fit in with what I had witnessed of reality. The world is harsh and chaotic - if ever an omnipotent and benevolent god did exist, he is long since dead. There is no divine hand at play in the world we live in today.
I choose not to idulge in the religious fr<x>ame of mind. In my opinion, there is no point in chasing after answers I will likely not be able to comprehend.
I am a godless being; always have been. Its not so much of a belief or even disbelief... its more a way of seeing the world. A way of percieving reality.
It can not be blamed on my parents. My father was an athiest up and until the age of forty; after which he found Christ. I always saw my father as a wise and intelligent person - this all changed the day he converted to Christianity. My mother was a baptist and educated us in religion up and until the day she lost her sanity. It seems there has always been a close link between religion and mental illness. The mentally ill are more prone to look for answers in religion than the mentally stable.
I, on the other hand, have been an athiest all my life. I never subscribed to a religion and never chose a belief system. I resolved to draw my own conclusions on all the difficult questions in life. It was not stubborness or even lack of knowledge on theology that stopped me from going down that path. It was the concept of it all... it has always sounded absurd to me to say the least. The concept of an omnipotent and benevolent god just did not fit in with what I had witnessed of reality. The world is harsh and chaotic - if ever an omnipotent and benevolent god did exist, he is long since dead. There is no divine hand at play in the world we live in today.
I choose not to idulge in the religious fr<x>ame of mind. In my opinion, there is no point in chasing after answers I will likely not be able to comprehend.
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