I used to be an atheist. I'm not anymore. I think there's probably a lot of people out there who call themselves atheists who are really agnostics leaning towards atheism. We don't know everything - we certainly cannot know for sure whether there is a higher power or not. All we can do is choose what we want to believe based on the evidence that we have. If that means believing in God, then so be it. If it means believing there is not God, so be it. I don't really believe in God, but I'm not sure. I feel like I'm going to need to do a lot more learning before I can reach a consensus with myself on that question. Nothing wrong with keeping an open mind, though. God is something I'm moving more towards as I get older and my views become more informed. I guess we'll wait and see.

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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins