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Originally Posted by votetheoneyouhatetheleast
Well put.
I went through a fierce atheist phase for a couple of years. I looked at all the bad things that religion was responsible for. It made me quite bitter. Then I watched a documentary about these fairly radical atheists and saw myself. I had become the venomous, hate filled vindictive person I was accusing religious people of being. Not all atheists are that bad, but I was looking for vengeance for a religion that had given me nothing. After I watched this documentary I changed to what I am now, a agnostic. Here I am happy until I get proof either way.
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What exactly would you require proof of? Why do you have such a problem with things currently being unknown? It is only a challenge that there are things about the Universe we find ourselves in that we don't know! And Ed I wish I could live long enough to know the very last detail of how our Universe was created and "what is outside it". But I know I won't as I'm just a hairless ape on this 3rd rock from the star we call the Sun. With an average life-expectancy of perhaps 80 years. I know this. And it bothers me. But it doesn't make me invent magic Sky-Daddies!
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If there is a God and he/she/it/they are so good, then I feel certain my questioning their existence is not going to condemn me to eternal hell fire.
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Why would you think an "eternal hell fire" existed?
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Religion, and really atheism and agnosticism are in a way included in that shpere is only bad if people use it for bad.
Which leads to the real problem. People doing what other people say.
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Yes, people exploit people. That is not really a revelation.