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Originally Posted by cheeZ
That verse was meant for people like you. Now I don't know what it's like to be 25, but I strongly believe that if you just pray with all your heart, truly believing He is there, you will just know that someone's watching over you.
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No, that verse was meant for people like you. It's there to control the doubt that you may have about your own religion not to convince me to believe. Even so, they are just words in a book the same as any other book. Where's the validity?
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Originally Posted by cheeZ
if you just pray with all your heart, truly believing He is there, you will just know that someone's watching over you.
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I think this is where I lose a lot of people. I do not need God. I do not want God. Praying will do nothing for me because there is nothing in my life that I want to achieve that I can't do on my own. For some reason religionists fell that because i am an atheist that we are lacking something in our lives and that simply isn't the case. I have a great life. I have a beautiful wife, a wonderful child, a good paying job, a nice house, a nice car, I don't drink or do drugs and most of all I am happy. I have all of this and more not because of God or because I prayed for God to give me these things but because I work hard to get the things that I want in life. Not just material things like Zunes and big screen TVs but happiness and joy. There is nothing missing in my life.
You can keep your God if that is what truly makes you happy. Just do it for the right reasons. Your reasons, not someone else's. Don't close yourself off to one religion. You should expose yourself to all religions and philosophies. If nothing else it might solidify your own beliefs a little more or you might find something else that makes more sense. As i said I am an Atheist yet I constantly study religion because you never know, I just may read something in some obscure codex that makes me a believer. It's unfair to myself to say I don't believe so f*ck everything else just as it's unfair to you to completely close your mind off to other religions/philosophies.