Religion in public life...

[tpunx99GSX]

http://www.everydaychristian.com/news/weblink/8498/

I found this extremely funny... "top three scoring groups, on order were atheists/agnostics, Jews and Mormons" ... but actually didnt surprize me at all.

Kracka sent me this article after i had already posted this. i like his article better.
http://mobile.latimes.com/wap/news/t...1&title=Nation

[Kracka]

I honestly don't really find this too surprising.

[Matt D.]

Those who don't claim sides are open minded and are willing to learn about everything, not just what they want to believe.

The same goes for politics.

[A//// Guy]

I wish I could like posts on here like in facebook. Mattd I like yours.

Thats exactly it... pretty basic explanation to the results.

[mdost03]

Artical?

[Goat Blower]

I'm just wondering how Tom stumbled across this artical.

[tpunx99GSX]

shut up guys. I was typing fast before i realised it. and I heard about this survey on the way to work (am950) and looked up the article once i got to work.
Anyways if you find my next statement offensive, please look away:
This is not surpizing as many athiests go through stages starting from Religious, to Agnostic, then to Atheism. Inheritance, Education, Realisation.
As a Born Catholic, turned agnostic, turned Athiest, I went to the stages and did not come lightly into this. After the death of my Neice, I decided it was time to explore other options. I studied a lot of the worlds religions but could always find holes in all of their logic. And came to the conclusion that at the current pace of Science, god will be disproven, and we will have a calculated responce to how we evolved, how the earth was created and what binds us. Instead of going blindly into the faith, with no chance or work pushing to prove the faith correct, i would rather work with the people who are actually searching for answers rather than believing a story told when people still believed that the earth was flat.

[Matt D.]

Originally Posted by tpunx99GSX

After the death of my Neice, I decided it was time to explore other options. I studied a lot of the worlds religions but could always find holes in all of their logic. And came to the conclusion that at the current pace of Science, god will be disproven, and we will have a calculated responce to how we evolved, how the earth was created and what binds us. Instead of going blindly into the faith, with no chance or work pushing to prove the faith correct, i would rather work with the people who are actually searching for answers rather than believing a story told when people still believed that the earth was flat.

As much as I want to believe in God, I don't think I can bring myself to doing so. I've been waffling over it for quite a while now. Such as you began your search after your niece died, the same occurred for me after losing my brother and two grandparents.

For me, I grew up as a Baptist. I learned so much from that church and honestly do miss it and its people, especially the pastor I grew up with. My grandma is still a member there and helps run many of the church's organizations. I can honestly say that I am who I am today because of religion, I'm not ashamed of that. Though as I've grown older I slowly began to form my own thoughts and began questioning everything around us, but what really did it for me was when I realized that what a normal person would just accept as a result of an action (a coincidence?), a religious person would say it was a divine act.

[Goat Blower]

The problem is that atheism requires as much faith as any of the religions, science has not disproven God. To say they will someday is great, but means absolutely nothing without proof. I can say that I'm sure God will come down on a purple dinosaur to prove his existence, but it hasn't occured yet, so we're really all in the same boat here. You're free to believe as you like, I'm free to believe as I like, another great reason to be in America. I do get a chuckle how some atheists word it as if they've ascended to a higher plain going from a believer to an atheist, like somehow you've figured out something that the dumb believers haven't. I suppose if you think that you are god, you feel the need to somehow elevate yourself above others. A lot of us have seen proof that God exists, others haven't. I guess we'll see in the end, hope you've got your nomex underwear packed up.

[Halon]

I believe, that everyone is free to believe what they want to believe. And would never attempt to prove that my view point is correct, or that another's is wrong. I believe that, no matter what your spiritual beliefs are, that shouldn't matter and we should judge each other based on our character, and not based on spiritual beliefs.

I've been judged before based on my beliefs, and didn't much like that, so I do my best to not judge others on that.

That's all I gotta say, live long and prosper

[mdost03]

Originally Posted by Halon

I believe, that everyone is free to believe what they want to believe. And would never attempt to prove that my view point is correct, or that another's is wrong. I believe that, no matter what your spiritual beliefs are, that shouldn't matter and we should judge each other based on our character, and not based on spiritual beliefs.

I've been judged before based on my beliefs, and didn't much like that, so I do my best to not judge others on that.

That's all I gotta say, live long and prosper

I agree with all of this, well said.