I must be about lizarddust's age. Also, played guitar & bass in some local bands, so we're coming from roughly the same place.
I am personally an Agnostic but I can understand why Atheists get upset when Religious individuals attempt to insert religious ideology into the law, schools and public functions. AA
Last Easter I was at a relatives house and they invited a couple who were friends of theirs. They began talking about Jesus and Religion and I kept my mouth shut until I just got sick of them going on and on so I educated them about how Easter is actually the Pagan Spring Equinox Celebration of the Goddess ESTER. Then I asked them where they thought the whole basket with green grass and eggs and chicks and bunnies tradition came from as people had been doing this for a 1000 years before Jesus was born. They accused me of attack their faith. I asked them how could FACTS be an attack on their faith? AA
God is supposedly the best of beings and the absolute or the ideal. But the vacuum that we have in our lungs or the real heart doesnt exist and has perished about the first clash of causes, that is not the morning moment not of yesterday, and we suffer from the absence of real heart and from the emergency heart work that doesnt work perfectly, to be true.
Personally my heart grows a little every time I see a person learn something. It is ignorance of reality that is the greatest evil. AA