Phatscotty wrote:AAFitz wrote:Phatscotty wrote:AAFitz wrote:Phatscotty wrote:I have my own theory on this, and I actually think about it a lot. Religiously, college was a confusing time and my World Religion class certainly put a lot of ideas in my head. After all, I was studying religion right? Well, I came out an Atheist, probably like a lot of other students who listened to the anti-God ranting 55 minutes everyday Monday-Friday for 4 months. Can't say for sure the anti-God ranting everyday had an influence on me as I took notes on it and memorized it and got tested on it, but hey, it might be possible.
Anyways, I thought I was Atheist for a few years. I argued all the basic talking points with family and friends, not understanding them, but the arguements just sounded good and seemed to make sense (to a highly inexperienced person in their early 20's). Then, one day I realized it was just as silly to try to prove God does not exist as it is to prove God does exist, so I stopped pretending like I had it figured out at 22 years old.
As for the question, even people I respect tremendously and can explain with reason and conviction why God does not exist, I have noted they are, without exception (in my experience), pretty miserable with no hope for anything and don't participate in anything, barely even family functions or friendly events, and they usually never have children.
My theory is that human beings do have souls, and it needs to be filled with something. Atheists at first have that emptiness of the soul and they quickly fill it with something else, usually something secular, anti-religion, or Liberal. And that's why they can never stfu at Christmas dinner about how Jesus never existed and have to start yelling and call people stupid.
Youre the sad one in this case I think.
If you need to believe in a higher power to realize how amazing the world is, there is absolutely nothing more sad.
You assume way too much. And I am an extremely happy person!
see?
And you assume I meant sad having anything to do with whether you were happy or not.
haha. Either way, your assumptions are totally incorrect, so the laughs and eyerolls don't count.
Youre the one assuming there is a creator of the entire universe with no evidence except one of many poorly written books thousands of years old....but hey, if thats what you need to be happy, then good on you, but this thread is based on the assumption, which you fully join in on, that atheists are sad....
So by all means keep pointing out silly assumptions, because laughing at your continued hypocricy makes me very happy.
You're the one making all the assumptions, not me. Im just pointing out how sad yours are.
In any case, I am hardly an atheist. Pretending to know if there is a God, or isnt with the information we have is just ignorant, bordering on stupid. All I can definitively say is that either is possible, and one seems more likely than the other, from a certain point of view.
