Your conversion to atheism

[Amicale]

I asked too many questions!!!    No one had a satisfying answer  , well at least my parents, relatives, and church didn't.

Yep.  Nothing made sense, and the more I studied the less sense it made.  I was told I would understand . . . eventually . . . when I was older.  And I guess I did, tho not in the way I was intended to.  I read the bible front to back and understood that as a collection of moral fables went it was no worse than most, but not really any better either.  As a practical guide to life it had several good points that could also be found in other religions or secular philosophies, and a whole lot of bullshit.  Which I'm not condemning either the bible or its compliers for, that's generally how it goes with old stories.  But I'm supposed to be accepting this as literally true (which was way I was taught) and for modern day use?  No.

. . .  if there is a God, then it at most, far removed from personal matters.

That's pretty much where I'm at.  There may well be a god, for all I know or can know, but I seriously doubt the various guesses of humans have any resemblence the possible actualifty, and the Xtian god seems to me particularly improbable with its aggressively human slant.

Exactly!! Even if there IS one, I'm sure it's not biased in favor of humans or that any of the religions are "right" about the characteristics that being may have; or how it behave toward us.

Right on. After all, humans being the most "sentient" or "intelligent" being on earth wouldn't mean that humans would by default be the favourite being of a creator. Perhaps that creator would enjoy the dolphins or snails best. Or perhaps earth was just a practice demo or trial run for some other planet out there in another galaxy far, far away, and the creator's lavishing all of its attention on the creatures that inhabit it. Perhaps a creator would give no more individual attention to its creation than any artist on earth gives to their creation -- they paint/build/make it, and then everything's done, and that's that!  How are we to know, and who are we to say? 

[Sandra Craft]

Right on. After all, humans being the most "sentient" or "intelligent" being on earth wouldn't mean that humans would by default be the favourite being of a creator. Perhaps that creator would enjoy the dolphins or snails best.

If we judge popularity with the divine by how many of a thing it made, then insects are far and away it's favorites and we are in serious trouble for inventing Raid.

[Amicale]

Right on. After all, humans being the most "sentient" or "intelligent" being on earth wouldn't mean that humans would by default be the favourite being of a creator. Perhaps that creator would enjoy the dolphins or snails best.

If we judge popularity with the divine by how many of a thing it made, then insects are far and away it's favorites and we are in serious trouble for inventing Raid.

*nods solemnly*

And for using flyswatters, bug zappers, and doing away with 8-legged freaks. 

In fact, my worst nightmare is that I die one day, wake up again, realize 'oh, there WAS a God' and that God turns out to be a many-legged insect or spider. I think that would be hell, for me!

[Jimmy]

Right on. After all, humans being the most "sentient" or "intelligent" being on earth wouldn't mean that humans would by default be the favourite being of a creator. Perhaps that creator would enjoy the dolphins or snails best.

If we judge popularity with the divine by how many of a thing it made, then insects are far and away it's favorites and we are in serious trouble for inventing Raid.

*nods solemnly*

And for using flyswatters, bug zappers, and doing away with 8-legged freaks. 

In fact, my worst nightmare is that I die one day, wake up again, realize 'oh, there WAS a God' and that God turns out to be a many-legged insect or spider. I think that would be hell, for me!

LOL, how ironic that would be!!

You know, the way humans are killing off everything else, I'm sure we would be God's least favorite. "Damn humans destroy everything I've created! What to do? I KNOW!! I'll just turn up the thermostat just a weee little bit....There, that'll show the little suckers..BAH HAH HAA!! I haven't had THAT much fun since Babylon !!"

[Asmodean]

8-legged freaks. 

Not insets, those. Different kind of arthropods.

[Amicale]

8-legged freaks. 

Not insets, those. Different kind of arthropods.

Yes. Arachnids. Which sounds creepy just to type, and makes me itch all over. 

[Asmodean]

Yes. Arachnids. Which sounds creepy just to type, and makes me itch all over.  

Yup. Pieders. Big, nasty, creepy pieders with HUGE fangs.

[Amicale]

Yes. Arachnids. Which sounds creepy just to type, and makes me itch all over.  

Yup. Pieders. Big, nasty, creepy pieders with HUGE fangs.

Little Miss Muffet
Sat on her tuffet
Eating her curds and whey
Along came a spider
And sat down beside her
And said "Excuse me, is this seat taken?"

[xSilverPhinx]

Eating her curds and whey

I seriously read "eating her turds and whey" there. 

[Tank]

Eating her curds and whey

I seriously read "eating her turds and whey" there. 

Paging Dr Fraud! Is Dr Fraud available?

[Amicale]

Eating her curds and whey

I seriously read "eating her turds and whey" there. 

Probably because the "t" in tuffet is directly above the "c" in curds. I do that often!

[xSilverPhinx]

Eating her curds and whey

I seriously read "eating her turds and whey" there. 

Paging Dr Fraud! Is Dr Fraud available?

Tank...are you suggesting that it was a Freudian slip on my part? 

[Hector Valdez]

I am still Roman Catholic.

[Amicale]

I am still Roman Catholic.

Cool. I used to be, also.

My cat was also Roamin' Cat-lick. Then she briefly tried the catnip over at the Puss-byterians, and now she's an athei-hissssst. 

[Anne D.]

I am still Roman Catholic.

Cool. I used to be, also.

My cat was also Roamin' Cat-lick. Then she briefly tried the catnip over at the Puss-byterians, and now she's an athei-hissssst. 

Ha!