I found this article interesting even tho I couldn't relate to it personally: Losing my religion: if I'm so done with faith, why do I still feel it's loss? (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margaret-wheeler-johnson/atheism-religion-doubt-faith_b_1172849.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Caim%7Cdl4%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D123992)
I guess just as there's no one way of being religious, there's also no one way of being atheist. While I enjoyed going to church, and sometimes still go to UU church services, I can't recall ever feeling any particular sense of loss after realizing that I was an atheist. I expect it's because I never had any real faith to lose -- the experience of becoming an atheist must be very different, and wrenching, for someone who once truly believed.
I tried to read the article
Quotenew myths: that we can do more than one thing at a time, that it will only take twenty minutes to get there, that sleep is for the weak and the dead, that we'll pay it off next month, that it doesn't get any better than this.
They aren't new and as presented they aren't old enough to be myths.
I was trying to say something nice.
Sometimes I feel like the only person who has felt no loss because I was never religious. I guess I was born atheist and just stayed that way.. :/
Sadly though, until I knew other people felt the same as I, I felt very outcasted by those who had faith and went to church.
Quote from: Sweetdeath on January 03, 2012, 10:32:34 PM
Sometimes I feel like the only person who has felt no loss because I was never religious. I guess I was born atheist and just stayed that way.. :/
Sadly though, until I knew other people felt the same as I, I felt very outcasted by those who had faith and went to church.
Me. I have never believed in god, never gotten anything out of church, and feel no loss whatsoever. In fact, I'm completely baffled at what anyone gets out of church. Some days I feel like an alien, but I think I'm in good company. :)
Quote from: The Magic Pudding on January 03, 2012, 05:46:43 PM
They aren't new and as presented they aren't old enough to be myths.
That sentence seems contradictory Pudding, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Quote from: The Magic Pudding on January 03, 2012, 05:46:43 PM
I tried to read the article Quotenew myths: that we can do more than one thing at a time, that it will only take twenty minutes to get there, that sleep is for the weak and the dead, that we'll pay it off next month, that it doesn't get any better than this.
They aren't new and as presented they aren't old enough to be myths.
I was trying to say something nice.
And the effort is appreciated! Even if they were old, I don't think they'd qualify as myths -- silliness of a certain decade, maybe. That "we can do more than one thing at a time" business is just another version of "having it all" and I remember the first time I heard that I thought whoever was behind it was insane or stupid or both.
Quote from: Traveler on January 03, 2012, 10:36:57 PM
Quote from: Sweetdeath on January 03, 2012, 10:32:34 PM
Sometimes I feel like the only person who has felt no loss because I was never religious. I guess I was born atheist and just stayed that way.. :/
Sadly though, until I knew other people felt the same as I, I felt very outcasted by those who had faith and went to church.
Me. I have never believed in god, never gotten anything out of church, and feel no loss whatsoever. In fact, I'm completely baffled at what anyone gets out of church. Some days I feel like an alien, but I think I'm in good company. :)
Yes, you are. *hugs*