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Thank you for your replies and interest in what I had to say. I guess that first post was simply venting on my part. Because I've had so many bad experiences with atheists. You are right Jo that I shouldn't blanket every atheist out there in this way. And to the others here who suggested I not make such sweeping statements, I agree. I know not every atheist is aggressive and out to harm. On the flip side, not every Christian is out to be aggressive and do harm. But as some previous poster stated he or she had run ins with some aggressive Christians acting very much the way I described.
My point was and will always be that we are free to believe what we want. If you believe in God, COOL!. If you are atheist, COOL! Let's be friends and get along and share ideas across the table and talk to each other and find out why we feel the way we do. If we could let go for a moment and not have to be right all the damn time we might actually get somewhere.
To share part of my own spiritual experiences....when I was very very young in times of distress and need I would pray, and I always received a warm feeling of understanding and support. Now I prayed greedy and self centered so not all my prayers came true. And I learned after a while that praying and believing is not about having your prayers come true, but it is about the act of praying itself. The power of prayer. I learned to pray for what I wanted first. Then to add into that prayer the ability to be strong and accept what outcome may happen. And thirdly to be thankful to ever have lived at all and had so many experiences from very bad to very good. All through my life I've had spiritual feelings and I can not express the joy and enrichment and comfort to my life.
Now here is the breaking point between spiritual people and atheists....an atheist can't seem to accept that people are having these experiences. And you can say all you want that it's not real and you can't prove it and there's no math or science to qualify it or prove a God exists. I think it eats you guys from the inside out that while you can't prove it, you also can't deny that billions of people have spiritual experiences. You don't need to prove it. All you need to do is acknowledge it. It wouldn't matter if they were praying to my toaster on the counter behind me. The experiences are happening. And if you just sat down with a few of them and let them talk to you they could really open your eyes to the benefit of faith and praying and going to church and reaching out to have a relationship with someone higher than yourself. Families are repaired. Broken lives are pulled out of the gutter. People are changed and made whole again after injury or accident. Those that took the wrong path in life are put back on the right path when they thought there was no way and that their life was over.
Atheism and Religion are one in the same. You gain focus and comfort and understanding from a concept of how you view life and the meaning of all things. They are exactly the same. We both worship a way of thinking...of believing we are the ones with the right answer and no one else.
I just wonder what anyone gains from trying to tear down another. Someone on here said well it's when religious people want to hurt others that it becomes dangerous. WHO are you talking about? Who is trying to hurt someone? I am not trying to hurt anyone. Are you?
I might as well say the danger is when atheists want to hurt someone.
And you know, I was commenting on how mocking and ridiculing atheists can be, and the OP says all of this was a joke. Many people will reach out to you out of pure sincerity and love and support because of your joke only to realize later that you were insincere and were making fools out of others for your enjoyment. Way to represent atheists. You have every right to your beliefs. Apparently you also have the right to be one giant ********.
