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Originally Posted by Neo
What I'm saying is that there is a misconception that people who don't believe in God have a bleak outlook on life. While that is true for some, it isn't true for a great many others. Just look at www.randi.org. You have a lot of skeptics there who lead very happy lives. They believe in advancing the human race and reaching new frontiers. They don't consider their own death to be of much consequence. Afterall if you're dead then you're not around to care that you're dead. They have a very positive outlook. They're also free from the need to believe in a God in order to lead a happy and moral existence. Because there are people who believe in God and the morality that comes from that, they can't understand how people who don't believe in God can be moral. If they did understand then they wouldn't need God. This is why atheists are so distrusted. |
That's wicked though, I got no problem with that. To be totally comfortable with your mortality and just accept death and live your life, I think that's cool. I'm not saying that if you don't believe in God, you have a bleak outlook on life. I'm just trying to establish my concern for the people who are so belligerent when the topic of God or Heaven/Hell comes up. Like the people who turn their noses up to religious folk, thinking they know everything about life and death, and that anyone who believes in a God is a fool praising some make-believe fantasy character.
I think the group of people I'm trying to single out are referred to as "Emo" or whatever the hell categorical phrase people are churning out these days. Like I used to know kids in school that we're all "there is no God, religion is stupid, dur hur I'm cool", you know what I'm saying, right? I just can't stand that kind of self-righteous attitude, where people create a set of beliefs to make themselves standout from others over some paranoid fear of being common.
But anyway, that's enough philisophical bullcrap for one night, methinks. I usually don't like to get into these discussions.