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[kai_lis]

Hey, if you don't feel like reading an atheist's reflections on god and prayer, feel free to skip this post.  I promise I won't hold it against you.  I wrote it mostly for myself, and while I don't feel like I said anything particularly offensive, that's a personal thing, your mileage may vary, and it's not really my call to make.

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[samsamjellyjam]

<333

ILU, bb~

[kai_lis]

<333 Right back atcha.

[sereneignorance]

"It's funny, but even though I prayed for years, every night without fail, I don't remember missing it at all that first night I didn't. I slept just fine. You'd think the change in routine would have impacted me more."

Same here.

[kai_lis]

Haha, funny how that works.

[redbrunja]

Do you happen to watch the show Bones? Because there is great scene in a recent episode where a very empirical atheist and a man who is pretty secure in his Catholic faith are talking about what they gain emotionally from science and religion, and it basically drives home the ways that they're similar and the importance of what I would not spiritual practices, not religions.

Did that make any sense?

[kai_lis]

I've seen a few scattered episodes, but not the one you're talking about.

That's interesting, though. It does seem to me that most atheists and most theists get the same or similar things from their views on life, it's just through different reasoning. I think the things we gain emotionally from science/religion/whatever probably have more to do with who we are personally than which actual philosophy we attach ourselves to.

I think so?

That's a gorgeous icon, btw.

[redbrunja]

I think the things we gain emotionally from science/religion/whatever probably have more to do with who we are personally than which actual philosophy we attach ourselves to.

Yes, exactly. Good people are good people, regardless of what religion they do or don't believe.