I want to chuckle at this at first glance, but it is legitimately sad. Being unable to determine the difference between what is provable and therefore true versus what is not, is a critical ability in life.
It’s like saying Winnie the Pooh, the Tooth Fairy, or Santa is real. They exist in literature and in lore, but that does not make the characters in the story, or the actions taken, real.
I grew up in a Christian household and I started questioning things regarding it as early as 4 years old. I left the faith when I was 12, as medical issues made me question things such as ‘if I’m a good, kind person, why does all of this happen to me?’. I officially took up being Satanic about 15 years later. Medicine and science has solved or controlled the issues that plagued me through years of unanswered prayer.
Most of my friends, and relationships, are atheist or agnostic - but not all. And I don’t particularly try to sway others, but if nothing else, I plead to you to try and take a rational approach to everything in life, and question everything. Even conversations like this. Often, you’ll come up with the same or similar answers, and that’s fine; but coming up with new thoughts, facts, or even more questions, and then in a loop investigating those, is a sign of a sound mind and true logic and reasoning. Even being able to say ‘I can’t prove this as fact, but I still believe it’ is okay. It’s not necessarily what I say given the same facts and data, but as long as we aren’t trying to harm each other, it doesn’t matter.
I want to chuckle at this at first glance, but it is legitimately sad. Being unable to determine the difference between what is provable and therefore true versus what is not, is a critical ability in life.
It’s like saying Winnie the Pooh, the Tooth Fairy, or Santa is real. They exist in literature and in lore, but that does not make the characters in the story, or the actions taken, real.
I grew up in a Christian household and I started questioning things regarding it as early as 4 years old. I left the faith when I was 12, as medical issues made me question things such as ‘if I’m a good, kind person, why does all of this happen to me?’. I officially took up being Satanic about 15 years later. Medicine and science has solved or controlled the issues that plagued me through years of unanswered prayer.
Most of my friends, and relationships, are atheist or agnostic - but not all. And I don’t particularly try to sway others, but if nothing else, I plead to you to try and take a rational approach to everything in life, and question everything. Even conversations like this. Often, you’ll come up with the same or similar answers, and that’s fine; but coming up with new thoughts, facts, or even more questions, and then in a loop investigating those, is a sign of a sound mind and true logic and reasoning. Even being able to say ‘I can’t prove this as fact, but I still believe it’ is okay. It’s not necessarily what I say given the same facts and data, but as long as we aren’t trying to harm each other, it doesn’t matter.