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Religious views
Mar. 7th, 2014 08:43 pmI just feel like I want to write something down about this.
I've been in a bit of a struggle leaving behind my Christianity and embracing atheism. I don't believe in a God nor do I see the reason to. I do believe in the existence of a Jesus at some point, and I do believe miracles can happen, and I've always been somewhat superstitious (I believe in the existence of ghosts and whatnot). If there's no reason to NOT believe, who's to say there never was? I keep open-minded about history.
I've always wondered if I was bad in my beliefs or just pussyfooting around because I don't scorn or feel upset if people choose to believe in a God, sometimes I'm even happy for them, because they found something that means a lot for them, and I even encourage them to follow what it is they like.
I believe following and believing in a religion can be a very romantic way of viewing life and it's not my place to pop in and start trumpeting about how religion is bull. My best friends still identify as Christian in varying degrees, and I have other friends who vary in their faiths. I have no intent on "saving" them from themselves, unless they start picketing people at funerals, in which I'd probably do an intervention of some sort.
Maybe I'm gentler because I've been on both sides of the fence. But I believe life is surrounded by neurons, science, stardust, the elements, there's multi-universes, and so forth. I believe in the progress and purpose of humanity as a whole, and some morals in religious books written eons ago being horribly outdated. I don't believe a higher being should dictate whether or not I should be "good", rather I should be a decent person on my own terms regardless of reward vs. punishment.
Like when your body dies and you lose consciousness, your brain fires out neurons from your body and that's how you "pass on" or how ghosts are created. Then again, we're all stardust, really.
I've been in a bit of a struggle leaving behind my Christianity and embracing atheism. I don't believe in a God nor do I see the reason to. I do believe in the existence of a Jesus at some point, and I do believe miracles can happen, and I've always been somewhat superstitious (I believe in the existence of ghosts and whatnot). If there's no reason to NOT believe, who's to say there never was? I keep open-minded about history.
I've always wondered if I was bad in my beliefs or just pussyfooting around because I don't scorn or feel upset if people choose to believe in a God, sometimes I'm even happy for them, because they found something that means a lot for them, and I even encourage them to follow what it is they like.
I believe following and believing in a religion can be a very romantic way of viewing life and it's not my place to pop in and start trumpeting about how religion is bull. My best friends still identify as Christian in varying degrees, and I have other friends who vary in their faiths. I have no intent on "saving" them from themselves, unless they start picketing people at funerals, in which I'd probably do an intervention of some sort.
Maybe I'm gentler because I've been on both sides of the fence. But I believe life is surrounded by neurons, science, stardust, the elements, there's multi-universes, and so forth. I believe in the progress and purpose of humanity as a whole, and some morals in religious books written eons ago being horribly outdated. I don't believe a higher being should dictate whether or not I should be "good", rather I should be a decent person on my own terms regardless of reward vs. punishment.
Like when your body dies and you lose consciousness, your brain fires out neurons from your body and that's how you "pass on" or how ghosts are created. Then again, we're all stardust, really.
