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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in an atheist country (USSR), flirted with the idea of being religious when we moved here, but it never clicked.

I don't discount some sort of higher power/things we don't understand, but the idea that there is a human-like God "up there" who requires adoration and obedience seems laughable to me. Either there is a God that is all-powerful and all-knowing, in which case why would he/she even bother to care about individual humans, in which case in turn why would I bother to care about him/her, OR this deity is somehow not all-powerful and dependent on us for existence, but that's not what most religions teach us, so it seems like a weird logical lapse.

In any case, I take comfort in the material world, in treating other people around us with respect and humanity, not in the idea that there is something out there that personally cares about me, yet has created a world full of suffering and injustices.[/quote]

PP, may I respectfully (and I mean that) suggest that one does not "flirt with the idea of being religious." Perhaps that is where you got off on the wrong foot.

And how sad to have to take comfort in the material world.[/quote]

The posters who left religion or never took it up don't sound sad to me or present themselves as being sad.  Perhaps your sympathy is misplaced.

Regarding the material world -- we all live in it, religious or not.  Many parts of it are beautiful and many experiences we have in it with other humans are very meaningful.  [/quote]

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