I do not believe in any form of religion at this point in my life. The majority of my friends/family either do not believe or are the type that never take the time to really think about it.
I often hear athiests say they piety the religious for the blinded views of life, and their addiction to the awnsers that religion provides them. I usually laugh at this when I hear it, because I think to myself, why would you piety someone who has it SO much better then you. The life of an atheist is full of indecision and doubt. We have no answers for the majority of the big questions of life, what happens after, why does it all happen, and so on. We has our conclusions, but thats not really the same. An answer is a definite in your mind, a conclusion is the most logical outcome that fits. The answers are also not as pleasant as those of most religions, so fear can be more prevalent. In addition, atheists also have a tougher time with moral decisions, as there is no guiding moral code set out in advance for us. To the faithful, any moral decision is relatively easy in my understanding "If I do this, will I get into heaven?" Yes? Awesome! No? Is there a loop hole? Yes/No, and so on. An atheist must consult more then just an book written hundreds of years ago, they have to gauge each decision against the weight of their teaching and experiences of their entire life and decide weather or not they can accept the outcome of the decision at hand.
In my opinion, and maby Im wrong about this, most atheists want to believe, they would LOVE to be proven wrong, but they can't accept religion. They're views do not allow them to accept something on faith alone and their is not enough compelling evidence to convince them otherwise.
Of the few religious people I do know well, my understanding that this piety is returned onto us, for we have left god, and will never know the kingdom(or some variant there of). We will never know true happiness in life because we do not follow the teachings, and in death we will be cast into something rather unpleasent.
So my question is, who should piety whom? Should the believers piety the non believers? or visa versa? Who has it harder?
*Seriousness off*
Dolphins seam to got shit pretty much figured out, they just need to figure out how to get us to stop putting em in tanks, and wrecking their oceans. I mean they had time to figure out how to do this Maby they should be in charge of this whole religion debate.
Edited by tous, 04 October 2008 - 07:07 AM.
