So, basically what you are saying is that based on the definition of Materialism, it is linking that theory to all atheists, since the definition of atheism relates to that same concept. Only believing in what they can see touch and feel, rather than as one person on here likes to call it, the...
Wow Kathryn, thank you for sharing such an intimate story of your life. It inspired me. I have had a lot of walks like that, the same underlying feelings, the storyline just different. I have had out of body experiences. I was once pronounced dead in the water from drowning, revived, and now...
Well the OP states, "Other than your own" (with the spelling correction) but what I feel is that it really cannot be my own "religion". It has been difficult for me to put into words the ways I am finding work for me. I am finding that there are organized religions with key elements of rules...
As a child walking this world, with or without parents, going up to each adult individually and asking the key questions, such as:
“Where did we come from?”
“What happens when we die?”
“Is there something higher than us?”
“How am I supposed to...
There is such truth in this statement.
I wonder why morals are linked to religion...well maybe it has to do with the scriptures labeling certain key morals as commandments of "Thou shalt" so instead of making any of them a choice, it directs people to obey. When children are young and...
Thank you for the welcome :)
I see your point, however that is your opinion, another way to look at it and it's a good one. What I meant is that in some ways I could have opted not to have the child, so just as my mother gave me life, I gave my child the option to live. These days many women...
This post argues semantics. Faith goes deeper than a book. It goes deeper than written words, dates, times, people, Jesus even. We were not alive for any of this. Many of us are born into homes of certain faiths and because that is what we learned growing up as a child when we as young children...
This is what I dont understand, and help me please to understand, that is all I have ever asked for in the beginning. I can pretend I am a child learning the ways of the earth. As I look at the natural habitats of all things, from ants making anthills, to wolf packs, to trees rustling from the...
Hi Omar,
Well if you really feel the need to state that your writing was a poem, and not truly a riddle-poem, then let me show you a quick description of where riddling came from:
"Riddles occur extensively in Old English poetry, and also in the Old Norse literature of the Ancient Edda and...
So if I may interpret what your riddling has given me. You only know what you know. You have made a decision not to ponder things that you dont know. This means you are either using your brain over your heart, or using neither. Either way, when it comes to something you will never know until you...
Hi Omar - from the sound of your post, you may just be the true atheist I was hoping would post here. I would like to converse with you on this topic in a respectful way, if you are in fact capable of having a respectful conversation.
I dont claim to make any case for "bible god" and I am not...