God Revisited

[dyvinesweetness]

Telling my family I'm atheist feels like coming out the closet. That was silly. I have no idea what it feels like to come out the closet. In fact, I've no idea what their stance on non-religious and homosexual people are. I just know both are abominations. Maybe my family views them similarly. ...but perhaps they are much more open-minded than I

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[dyvinesweetness]

"But really, you still sound agnostic to me. It sounds as if you have still left the door open for the possibility of the existence of a higher power."

I guess, but not quite. I feel like the small part of me that allows for the belief is just because I have no proof otherwise. The overwhelming part of me thinks the whole notion of god (at least as I have been prestnted) is bull. But to me, the big bang theory seems off because if the world was formed from an accident by the random elements around, where did those elements come from? I also feel like assuming a god or gods made life is just a convenient loophole filler and that just because there may be something else at play doesn't mean it is a "god."

I wonder if that made my position clearer or more unclear. lol

"My aunt gave it up immediately after my mother's death."

You just reminded me that my first knowledge of an atheist was actually before that lady my gramma spoke of. It was my gramma's (church) friend's daughter. Her son died at like age 2 (maybe even a bit younger) and she "renounced god" saying no god would kill her son. But I remember thinking her "departure from the lord" would be shortlived. No idea why nor how I figured she would "return to christ" but it seemed only right.

"The entire religion is not only homo-sapien centered"

I had thoughts of that too. Plus it hurt my heart when my gramma told me my bird was not going to heaven. lol

"but also very eurocentric"

You know, I think what gets to me largely is this big hypocrisy of religion where so many black folk feel that god carried us through slavery yet they skip over how it was forced on us and we were made to drop alll signs of our cultures in Africa. AND the obvious, that god carrying us through slavery also equates to god letting us SUFFER through slavery simultaneously.