More than likely because I was brainwashed as a child and lived the church way until I was over sixty years old. I won't quit until that shit is on the way out. I love the Internet. It will put the marker on the tombstone of ancient god worship.
I'm agnostic.......I don't know and you don't either. All religion was established because mankind cannot accept his mortality. He somehow sees himself as immortal. He's one of millions of species which has lungs, brain, heart, bowel, bladder, etc. has to take on nutrition and extrude waste each day in very simillar fashion and wiped on his hands till the Asians invented paper along about 100BC. Even then average humans had no access to it so the masses contimued to clean themselves on their hands for centuries. Anyone who fails to see the almost exact replication of life among species is either very naive or has blocked the facts from their mind.
Dear C:
1. Thank you for being honest and open about why you are so reactionary and against false religion. It's ironic that you cannot see that is the same motivation of many other religious followers, to identify and attack false religion instead of solving the actual problems.
2. It is funny that you can see the similarity between people and other species, but you cannot see how you are similar to people who follow religions.
You believe you have the answers, you know the truth.
And the people or beliefs you deem as teaching otherwise, you want to wipe out.
How are you any different, Cammmpbell, as another human being doing the same thing!
If anything you could be worse than the believers like me who DON'T seek to conquer or destroy, but seek to correct the problems causing people to fear and attach each other.
If you are trying to fight fire with fire, the point of that is to realize futility and give it up.
If you are honestly trying to get rid of religious fires, you won't achieve that by starting your own, and following the same patterns and mechanisms as the people you oppose.
This conflict, Cammmpbell is what fuels religions.
You frame it as an issue of "immortality vs. mortality,"
but it boils down to "them vs. us." Collective forces outside man's control vs. individual
will. And blaming the problem outside of ourselves, not recognizing we are part of the same.
We cannot escape the problems in religion because you and I have the same conflicts.
We may express them differently, but the patterns of denial and projection are the same.
We are human beings, we learn by experience, by trial and error and comparisons and relations with others, so this is just part of the learning curve we are all participating in.
Thank you again for being as honest as you are.
I believe with the commitment you have to get rid of false religion,
in order to achieve that goal you will come to be as honest about the
faults of others as of yourself, and see that we are all in the same boat together.
That is what it means for us to be equal as humans.
Thanks, Cammmpbell
Press on with your committed purpose of getting rid of all false religion, teaching and thoughts/beliefs, including any misperceptions you may have in the process that would equally benefit from correction in order to achieve your lofty and noble goals!
Yours truly,
Emily