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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the PPs saying losing their faith was a relief, can you explain how? For me, losing faith would mean all my suffering (and suffering of others) is meaningless. And more important, that all the love and joy I experience are equally meaningless, to be snatched away at possibly at moment for no reason, no justice, no point.[/quote]

I’ll take a stab at this. Not trying to convince anyone, and I’m not really a “prostletyzing” atheist, so I’m truly approaching this respectfully to all. But I want to offer an idea of where people like us are coming from.

Basically, to me, my loss of faith has helped me realize that this life is all I have. And if this life is all I have, I had better make sure I love it fully and try to commit to the moments of joy (rather than hate the human world and constantly judge it in the hopes that something “better” awaits). And I think that if more people accepted that if this life is all we have, they would - on balance - treat people better rather than worse. Is there suffering? Of course. But it’s easier for me to accept random, pointless, awful suffering than that suffering is God’s “plan.” On a daily basis, children are being painfully, horrifically ravaged by random diseases like cancer. Far better in my view that that be a random terrible occurrence of nature than it be the design of an all-powerful creator who supposedly loves us and yet doles out such horrors while demanding incessant praise and worship.

I do miss things about my faith. I wish I could believe that I’d be reunited in a paradise with my father, my brother, or other loved ones. But because I no longer believe, those consolations seem to me quite false, and I find myself glad that I (believe) I’ve discovered the truth rather than putting my hopes in something that never comes.[/quote]

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