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[psygirl]

I don't know how many of you are aware that I identify as Atheist. It's not something I discuss a lot in my journal, although I have considered myself one for quite some time. It's only relevant now because of a post a friend made this morning about how she is not Atheist. The post was quite interesting given the reasoning presented for why she can

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[funsocaltiger]

God damn Christians.

[psynut]

So, a sea of non-believers... the oceans will run red with tartar sauce.

I consider myself an Existential Christian. I'm uncertain of the truth behind the historical Jesus of the Bible - I do believe in the truth found in the benefits of his teachings according to the Gospels.

As opposed to kliq, though many in this society do not see a need for religion in this society - I think there's an even greater need in a society that is looking to operate secularly. All that alienation and apathy and disenchantment that people go on about in our post-post-modern society - I think it comes from a disowning of anything religious and spiritual. The disenfranchisement's well understood with terrible travesties all done in the name of one god or another, the hiding and perverting of scientific facts to preserve a religion, and the need to compromise one's beliefs, and thusly many's beliefs, in order to live in a society where everyone can get along. What religion can that possibly leave a person? I believe in order to overcome that general crappy

[gelasia]

possibly, i got it.

maybe to word it in other terms, that the denial of someone's faith, in a negative way, is the contributing factor of the de-evolution of society... not that faith itself has done that.

science is god dissecting itself. i think it rocks, and don't understand why faith and science cannot be one.

[psynut]

I don't know why so many people have trouble reconciling science and faith, either... of all the issues surrounding this stuff... it seems such an easy thing to do.

Word.

No

[funsocaltiger]

No. I completely disagree.

Except maybe this:

I'm uncertain of the truth behind the historical Jesus of the Bible - I do believe in the truth found in the benefits of his teachings according to the Gospels.

Except for the fact that those "truths" would exist without religion equally well.

The need for purpose and existence and being part of something greater is at best a genetic instinctual pack mentality and at worst pure human weakness. Requiring religion to feel fulfilled or part of something bigger or whatever is useless, illogical and an unproductive use of resources.

I believe that if anything religion is the primary cause of disenfranchisement in the modern world. Religion largely only serves human made segregationist viewpoints solely for the weak minds and selfish benefit of it's creators and perpetuators and it is massively counter-productive to education, science and even world peace.