Me too. If not, I wonder why God waited so long. |
Because there is no God. |
You do realize that you aren't supposed to read that history part and think, "Oh, I should go sell my daughters because someone in the Old Testament did that." It's not a step-by-step self-help how to live kind of text. Also no one would ever argue that people have not and continue to do terrible things in the bastardized name of religions. People get things very wrong all the time. |
Sorry— I didn’t get a chance to respond until now. My religion helps me to understand that life is nothing but an experience— and how I experience life is up to me. I choose how I react to life. I can choose to react to events with worry and anxiety, or I can choose to not. I can choose to feel like I need to achieve goals— or I can choose to not. I can choose to be self-critical because I want to meet some external standard; or I can choose to constantly strive to be better just because that makes for an even better experience. |
Thanks. This sounds like a good philosophy, but not religious, because you didn't mention anything about the promise of an afterlife. |
Not all religions require a belief in the afterlife. |
Which religions don't have a belief in an afterlife? |
I'm an atheist so have that as a baseline, but my faith in my belief that God does not exist is a belief in myself and there are scientific reasons that we as people are here on this particular planet.
My husband is Hindu. He argues with me that God / Faith to him is the explanation that we do not know why and how we are here. I still think there is an answer, we just do not know that reason yet. |
Do you think that humans will ever know the reasons we're here? And if so, how do you think we'll find out? |
Correct - and it sounds like you learned, and accepted, that there's much in the Bible that should be ignored, but that you still think that it's full of wisdom. Correct? |
Peace. |
You have presupposed that there are "reasons". Or, at a minimum, you should define "reasons". |
Do you think that “equality” is some type of inherent natural shared belief? Genuinely puzzled by your naïveté. |
Please change “reasons” to “why” and respond. Thanks. |
You have presupposed that there is a "why". |